Tex. Gov't Code § 54.2810 · Subchapter SS. DENTON COUNTY CRIMINAL LAW MAGISTRATE COURT
TERMINATION OF SERVICES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a criminal law magistrate court associate judge, a jail magistrate, and each other magistrate in the criminal law magistrate court may be terminated by a two-thirds vote of the district court judges with jurisdiction in Denton County and the judges of the criminal statutory county courts of Denton County.
(b) A part-time jail magistrate serves solely at the discretion of a criminal law magistrate court associate judge appointed under Section 54.2805 or of the district court judge and criminal statutory county court judge designated to oversee the criminal law magistrate court under Section 54.2802(b).
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 861 (H.B. 3474), Sec. 4.006, eff. September 1, 2023.
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