Texas Code Of Criminal Procedure Title 1, Chapter 2 - General Duties Of Officers
- Texas Article 2.01 - Duties Of District Attorneys
Each district attorney shall represent the State in all criminal cases in the district courts of his district and in appeals therefrom, except in cases...
- Texas Article 2.02 - Duties Of County Attorneys
The county attorney shall attend the terms of court in his county below the grade of district court, and shall represent the State in all...
- Texas Article 2.021 - Duties Of Attorney General
The attorney general may offer to a county or district attorney the assistance of the attorney general's office in the prosecution of an offense described...
- Texas Article 2.022 - Assistance Of Texas Rangers
(a) The attorney representing the state may request the Texas Rangers division of the Department of Public Safety to provide assistance to a local law...
- Texas Article 2.025 - Special Duty Of District Or County Attorney Relating To Child Support
If a district or county attorney receives money from a person who is required by a court order to pay child support through a local...
- Texas Article 2.03 - Neglect Of Duty
(a) It shall be the duty of the attorney representing the State to present by information to the court having jurisdiction, any officer for neglect...
- Texas Article 2.04 - Shall Draw Complaints
Upon complaint being made before a district or county attorney that an offense has been committed in his district or county, he shall reduce the...
- Texas Article 2.05 - When Complaint Is Made
If the offense be a misdemeanor, the attorney shall forthwith prepare an information based upon such complaint and file the same in the court having...
- Texas Article 2.06 - May Administer Oaths
For the purpose mentioned in the two preceding Articles, district and county attorneys are authorized to administer oaths. Acts 1965, 59th Leg., vol. 2, p....
- Texas Article 2.07 - Attorney Pro Tem
(a) Whenever an attorney for the state is disqualified to act in any case or proceeding, is absent from the county or district, or is...
- Texas Article 2.08 - Disqualified
(a) District and county attorneys shall not be of counsel adversely to the State in any case, in any court, nor shall they, after they...
- Texas Article 2.09 - Who Are Magistrates
Each of the following officers is a magistrate within the meaning of this Code: The justices of the Supreme Court, the judges of the Court...
- Texas Article 2.10 - Duty Of Magistrates
It is the duty of every magistrate to preserve the peace within his jurisdiction by the use of all lawful means; to issue all process...
- Texas Article 2.11 - Examining Court
When the magistrate sits for the purpose of inquiring into a criminal accusation against any person, this is called an examining court. Acts 1965, 59th...
- Texas Article 2.12 - Who Are Peace Officers
The following are peace officers: (1) sheriffs, their deputies, and those reserve deputies who hold a permanent peace officer license issued under Chapter 1701, Occupations...
- Texas Article 2.121 - Railroad Peace Officers
(a) The director of the Department of Public Safety may appoint up to 250 railroad peace officers who are employed by a railroad company to...
- Texas Article 2.122 - Special Investigators
Art. 2.122. SPECIAL INVESTIGATORS. (a) The following named criminal investigators of the United States shall not be deemed peace officers, but shall have the powers...
- Texas Article 2.123 - Adjunct Police Officers
(a) Within counties under 200,000 population, the chief of police of a municipality or the sheriff of the county, if the institution is outside the...
- Texas Article 2.124 - Peace Officers From Adjoining States
(a) A commissioned peace officer of a state of the United States of America adjoining this state, while the officer is in this state, has...
- Texas Article 2.125 - Special Rangers Of Texas And Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association
(a) The director of the Department of Public Safety may appoint up to 50 special rangers who are employed by the Texas and Southwestern Cattle...
- Texas Article 2.126 - Peace Officers Commissioned By The Alabama-coushatta Indian Tribe
(a) The tribal council of the Alabama-Coushatta Indian Tribe is authorized to employ and commission peace officers for the purpose of enforcing state law within...
- Texas Article 2.127 - School Marshals
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a school marshal may make arrests and exercise all authority given peace officers under this code, subject to...
- Texas Article 2.13 - Duties And Powers
(a) It is the duty of every peace officer to preserve the peace within the officer's jurisdiction. To effect this purpose, the officer shall use...
- Texas Article 2.131 - Racial Profiling Prohibited
A peace officer may not engage in racial profiling. Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 947, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.
- Texas Article 2.132 - Law Enforcement Policy On Racial Profiling
(a) In this article: (1) "Law enforcement agency" means an agency of the state, or of a county, municipality, or other political subdivision of the...
- Texas Article 2.133 - Reports Required For Motor Vehicle Stops
(a) In this article, "race or ethnicity" has the meaning assigned by Article 2.132(a). (b) A peace officer who stops a motor vehicle for an...
- Texas Article 2.134 - Compilation And Analysis Of Information Collected
(a) In this article: (1) "Motor vehicle stop" has the meaning assigned by Article 2.132(a). (2) "Race or ethnicity" has the meaning assigned by Article...
- Texas Article 2.135 - Partial Exemption For Agencies Using Video And Audio Equipment
(a) A peace officer is exempt from the reporting requirement under Article 2.133 and the chief administrator of a law enforcement agency, regardless of whether...
- Texas Article 2.136 - Liability
A peace officer is not liable for damages arising from an act relating to the collection or reporting of information as required by Article 2.133...
- Texas Article 2.137 - Provision Of Funding Or Equipment
(a) The Department of Public Safety shall adopt rules for providing funds or video and audio equipment to law enforcement agencies for the purpose of...
- Texas Article 2.138 - Rules
The Department of Public Safety may adopt rules to implement Articles 2.131-2.137. Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 947, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1,
- Texas Article 2.1385 - Civil Penalty
(a) If the chief administrator of a local law enforcement agency intentionally fails to submit the incident-based data as required by Article 2.134, the agency...
- Texas Article 2.139 - Reports Required For Officer-involved Injuries Or Deaths
(a) In this article: (1) "Deadly weapon" means: (A) a firearm or any object manifestly designed, made, or adapted for the purpose of inflicting death...
- Texas Article 2.139 - Video Recordings Of Arrests For Intoxication Offenses
A person stopped or arrested on suspicion of an offense under Section 49.04, 49.045, 49.07, or 49.08, Penal Code, is entitled to receive from a...
- Texas Article 2.1395 - Reports Required For Certain Injuries Or Deaths Of Peace Officers
(a) The office of the attorney general by rule shall create a written and electronic form for the reporting by law enforcement agencies of incidents...
- Texas Article 2.14 - May Summon Aid
Whenever a peace officer meets with resistance in discharging any duty imposed upon him by law, he shall summon a sufficient number of citizens of...
- Texas Article 2.15 - Person Refusing To Aid
The peace officer who has summoned any person to assist him in performing any duty shall report such person, if he refuse to obey, to...
- Texas Article 2.16 - Neglecting To Execute Process
If any sheriff or other officer shall wilfully refuse or fail from neglect to execute any summons, subpoena or attachment for a witness, or any...
- Texas Article 2.17 - Conservator Of The Peace
Each sheriff shall be a conservator of the peace in his county, and shall arrest all offenders against the laws of the State, in his...
- Texas Article 2.18 - Custody Of Prisoners
When a prisoner is committed to jail by warrant from a magistrate or court, he shall be placed in jail by the sheriff. It is...
- Texas Article 2.19 - Report As To Prisoners
On the first day of each month, the sheriff shall give notice, in writing, to the district or county attorney, where there be one, as...
- Texas Article 2.195 - Report Of Warrant Or Capias Information
Not later than the 30th day after the date the court clerk issues the warrant or capias, the sheriff: (1) shall report to the national...
- Texas Article 2.20 - Deputy
Wherever a duty is imposed by this Code upon the sheriff, the same duty may lawfully be performed by his deputy. When there is no...
- Texas Article 2.21 - Duty Of Clerks
(a) In a criminal proceeding, a clerk of the district or county court shall: (1) receive and file all papers; (2) receive all exhibits at...
- Texas Article 2.211 - Hate Crime Reporting
In addition to performing duties required by Article 2.21, a clerk of a district or county court in which an affirmative finding under Article 42.014...
- Texas Article 2.22 - Power Of Deputy Clerks
Whenever a duty is imposed upon the clerk of the district or county court, the same may be lawfully performed by his deputy. Acts 1965,...
- Texas Article 2.23 - Report To Attorney General
(a) The clerks of the district and county courts shall, when requested in writing by the Attorney General, report to the Attorney General not later...
- Texas Article 2.24 - Authenticating Officer
(a) The governor may appoint an authenticating officer, in accordance with Subsection (b) of this article, and delegate to that officer the power to sign...
- Texas Article 2.25 - Reporting Certain Aliens To Federal Government
A judge shall report to the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service a person who has been convicted in the judge's court of a crime...
- Texas Article 2.26 - Digital Signature And Electronic Documents
(a) In this section, "digital signature" means an electronic identifier intended by the person using it to have the same force and effect as the...
- Texas Article 2.27 - Investigation Of Certain Reports Alleging Abuse
(a) On receipt of a report that is assigned the highest priority in accordance with rules adopted by the Department of Family and Protective Services...
- Texas Article 2.271 - Investigation Of Certain Reports Alleging Abuse, Neglect, Or Exploitation
Notwithstanding Article 2.27, on receipt of a report of abuse, neglect, exploitation, or other complaint of a resident of a nursing home, convalescent home, or...
- Texas Article 2.272 - Law Enforcement Response To Child Safety Check Alert
(a) If a peace officer locates a child or other person listed on the Texas Crime Information Center's child safety check alert list established under...
- Texas Article 2.28 - Duties Regarding Misused Identity
On receipt of information to the effect that a person's identifying information was falsely given by a person arrested as the arrested person's identifying information,...
- Texas Article 2.29 - Report Required In Connection With Fraudulent Use Or Possession Of Identifying Information
(a) A peace officer to whom an alleged violation of Section 32.51, Penal Code, is reported shall make a written report to the law enforcement...
- Texas Article 2.295 - Report Required In Connection With Unauthorized Acquisition Or Transfer Of Certain Financial Information
(a) A peace officer to whom an alleged violation of Section 31.17, Penal Code, is reported shall make a written report to the law enforcement...
- Texas Article 2.30 - Report Concerning Certain Assaultive Or Terroristic Offenses
(a) This article applies only to the following offenses: (1) assault under Section 22.01, Penal Code; (2) aggravated assault under Section 22.02, Penal Code; (3)...
- Texas Article 2.31 - County Jailers
A jailer licensed under Chapter 1701, Occupations Code, may execute lawful process issued to the jailer by any magistrate or court on a person confined...
- Texas Article 2.31 - County Jailers
If a jailer licensed under Chapter 1701, Occupations Code, has successfully completed a training program provided by the sheriff, the jailer may execute lawful process...
Last modified: September 28, 2016