Texas Code of Criminal Procedure - Article 19.07. Extension Beyond Term Of Period For Which Grand Jurors Shall Sit

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Art. 19.07. [338A] EXTENSION BEYOND TERM OF PERIOD FOR WHICH 
GRAND JURORS SHALL SIT.  If prior to the expiration of the term for 
which the grand jury was impaneled, it is made to appear by a 
declaration of the foreman or of a majority of the grand jurors in 
open court, that the investigation by the grand jury of the matters 
before it cannot be concluded before the expiration of the term, the 
judge of the district court in which said grand jury was impaneled 
may, by the entry of an order on the minutes of said court, extend, 
from time to time, for the purpose of concluding the investigation 
of matters then before it, the period during which said grand jury 
shall sit, for not to exceed a total of ninety days after the 
expiration of the term for which it was impaneled, and all 
indictments pertaining thereto returned by the grand jury within 
said extended period shall be as valid as if returned before the 
expiration of the term.  The extension of the term of a grand jury 
under this article does not affect the provisions of Article 19.06 
relating to the selection and summoning of grand jurors for each 
regularly scheduled term.

Acts 1965, 59th Leg., vol. 2, p. 317, ch. 722, eff. Jan. 1, 1966.             

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