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  • Texas Government Code Section 53.001 - Mandatory Appointments
    (a) The judges of the 22nd, 30th, 70th, 71st, 78th, 89th, 161st, and 341st district courts, the judges of the district courts having jurisdiction in ...
  • Texas Government Code Section 53.002 - Permissive Appointments
    (a) The judges of the 34th, 86th, 142nd, 238th, 318th, 355th, and 385th district courts may each appoint a bailiff. (b) The judge of the ...
  • Texas Government Code Section 53.003 - Evidence Of Appointment; Notification
    (a) An order signed by the appointing judge entered in the minutes of the court is evidence of the appointment of a bailiff or grand ...
  • Texas Government Code Section 53.004 - Qualifications
    (a) A bailiff in the 22nd, 34th, 70th, 71st, or 161st district court must be a resident of the county in which he serves the ...
  • Texas Government Code Section 53.005 - Term Of Office
    A bailiff or grand jury bailiff appointed under this subchapter holds office at the will of the judge of the court that the bailiff or ...
  • Texas Government Code Section 53.006 - Duties
    (a) A bailiff or grand jury bailiff appointed under Section 53.001 or 53.002(a), (c), (d), (e), or (f) is an officer of the court. (b) ...
  • Texas Government Code Section 53.007 - Bailiff Deputized
    (a) This section applies to: (1) the 22nd, 34th, 70th, 71st, 86th, 97th, 142nd, 161st, 238th, 318th, 341st, 355th, and 385th district courts; (2) the ...
  • Texas Government Code Section 53.0071 - Bailiff As Peace Officer
    Unless the appointing judge provides otherwise in the order of appointment, a bailiff appointed under Section 53.001(b) or (g) or 53.002(c), (e), or (f) is ...
  • Texas Government Code Section 53.008 - Oath
    The bailiffs of the 22nd, 34th, 70th, 86th, 97th, 142nd, 161st, 238th, 318th, 341st, 355th, and 385th district courts, the bailiffs of the courts described ...
  • Texas Government Code Section 53.009 - Compensation
    (a) Each bailiff appointed by a judge of the 30th, 78th, 89th, or 355th district court, by a district judge in Potter, Randall, or Taylor ...
  • Texas Government Code Section 53.0091 - Compensation In El Paso County
    (a) Each bailiff appointed under Section 53.002(c) shall be paid an annual salary out of the general fund of El Paso County. The appointing judge ...
  • Texas Government Code Section 53.021 - Special Provision: Bailiff To Act As Interpreter
    (a) The judges of the 24th, 135th, and 267th district courts may each appoint, with the approval of the commissioners court, an officer of the ...
  • Texas Government Code Section 53.031 - Appointments
    (a) The Bexar County sheriff shall appoint one deputy to serve as bailiff for each of the district courts in Bexar County not designated as ...
  • Texas Government Code Section 53.032 - Oath
    Before assuming the duties of office, each bailiff must take the oath prescribed for officers of this state. Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 480, § ...
  • Texas Government Code Section 53.033 - Bond
    The sheriff may require a bailiff to give a bond. The sheriff may prescribe the conditions and amount of the bond, or those terms may ...
  • Texas Government Code Section 53.034 - Powers
    A bailiff appointed under this subchapter has the same powers that sheriffs and deputy sheriffs have in this state. Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 480, ...
  • Texas Government Code Section 53.035 - Duties
    (a) A bailiff acts in the name of his principal and may perform all official acts that the county sheriff may perform. (b) A bailiff ...
  • Texas Government Code Section 53.036 - Term Of Office; Vacancy
    (a) A bailiff serves at the pleasure of the judge of the court the bailiff serves. (b) If the office of a bailiff becomes vacant, ...
  • Texas Government Code Section 53.037 - Acting For Another Bailiff
    The bailiffs may act for each other and shall act for each other when requested to by a judge or the sheriff. A bailiff acting ...
  • Texas Government Code Section 53.038 - Salary
    The sheriff shall fix the annual salary of the bailiffs of each court. The salary must be approved by the commissioners court and shall be ...
  • Texas Government Code Section 53.039 - Additional Deputies
    This subchapter does not prevent the sheriff from assigning additional deputies to any of the district courts when circumstances require or when a district judge ...
  • Texas Government Code Section 53.051 - Office Of Bailiff
    The judges of the 245th, 246th, 247th, 257th, 308th, 309th, 310th, 311th, and 312th family district courts shall appoint a person to serve their respective ...
  • Texas Government Code Section 53.052 - Appointment
    An order signed by the appointing judge and entered on the minutes of the court is evidence of appointment of a bailiff. The judge shall ...
  • Texas Government Code Section 53.053 - Qualifications
    A bailiff must be a citizen of the United States and must be 19 years of age. Added by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 148, ...
  • Texas Government Code Section 53.054 - Bailiff As Deputy
    On written notice of the appointment from the judge, a constable of said county may deputize the bailiff in addition to other deputies authorized by ...
  • Texas Government Code Section 53.055 - Oath
    The following oath must be administered by the appointing judge to the bailiff appointed under this subchapter: "I solemnly swear that I will perform faithfully ...
  • Texas Government Code Section 53.056 - Term Of Office
    The bailiff holds office at the will of the judge of the court served by the bailiff. Added by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 148, ...
  • Texas Government Code Section 53.057 - Duties
    A bailiff shall perform the duties imposed on bailiffs under the general laws of this state and the other duties required by the judge of ...
  • Texas Government Code Section 53.058 - Compensation
    The bailiff shall be compensated out of the general fund of the county in an amount to be set by the Commissioners Court of Harris ...
  • Texas Government Code Section 53.071 - Grand Jury Bailiffs In Counties Of 250,000 Or More
    (a) In any county with a population of 250,000 or more, the judges of the district courts to whom the grand jury reports may, with ...
  • Texas Government Code Section 53.072 - Grand Jury Bailiffs In Galveston County
    The judge of a district court in Galveston County impaneling a grand jury shall appoint not more than six grand jury bailiffs. Added by Acts ...
  • Texas Government Code Section 53.091 - Employment
    (a) The supreme court, the court of criminal appeals, and each of the courts of appeals may employ and commission a peace officer to protect ...
  • Texas Government Code Section 53.092 - Powers And Duties
    Any peace officer commissioned under this section shall be vested with all the rights, privileges, obligations, and duties of any other peace officer in this ...
  • Last modified: August 11, 2007