Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 361.002 · Subchapter A. CRIMINAL JUSTICE CENTER IN CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES
CRIMINAL JUSTICE CENTER; OFFICE RESTRICTION INAPPLICABLE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The municipality and county jointly or severally may own, construct, equip, enlarge, and maintain as a criminal justice center one or more buildings located in the municipality.
(b) The criminal justice center must provide public facilities related or incidental to the administration of criminal justice and may include:
(1) accommodations for the handling, processing, and detention of prisoners;
(2) offices for state, county, and municipal administrative and judicial officials;
(3) courtrooms; and
(4) parking facilities.
(c) A county officer may maintain office facilities in the criminal justice center in addition to any office facilities maintained at the county seat, notwithstanding Section 291.002 or any other law that restricts the location of county offices to the county seat of the county.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.361.htm
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