Tex. Gov't Code § 511.012 · Chapter 511. COMMISSION ON JAIL STANDARDS
FAILURE TO COMPLY AFTER REPORT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The commission shall grant the county or sheriff a reasonable period of not more than one year after the date of the report under Section 511.011 to comply with commission rules and procedures and state law.
(b) If the county commissioners or sheriff does not comply within the period granted by the commission, the commission by order may prohibit confinement of prisoners in the county jail. In that event, the commission shall furnish the sheriff with a list of qualified detention facilities to which the prisoners may be transferred for confinement. Immediately on issuance of the commission's order, the sheriff shall transfer the number of prisoners necessary to bring the county jail into compliance to a detention facility that agrees to accept the prisoners. The agreement must be in writing and signed by the sheriffs of the counties transferring and receiving the prisoners. A county transferring prisoners under this section shall remove the prisoners from the receiving facility immediately on request of the sheriff of the receiving county.
(c) The county transferring prisoners under this section is liable for payment of the costs of transportation for, and maintenance of, transferred prisoners. These costs shall be determined by agreement between the participating counties and shall be paid into the treasury of the entity operating the detention facility receiving the prisoners.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 212, Sec. 2.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1092, Sec. 2, eff. June 20, 2003.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.511.htm
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Government Code
- Tex. Gov't Code § 493.009SUBSTANCE ABUSE FELONY PUNISHMENT FACILITIES.Printed as Section 511.012
- Tex. Gov't Code § 511.0101JAIL POPULATION REPORTS.Printed as Section 511.012
- Tex. Gov't Code § 511.0121FAILURE TO COOPERATE IN PAROLE IN ABSENTIA PROGRAM.Printed as Section 511.012
- Tex. Gov't Code § 511.013APPEAL OF ORDER.Printed as Section 511.012(b)
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