Texas Government Code Title 2, Chapter 29 - Municipal Courts

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 29.001 - Definition
  In this chapter, "municipality" means an incorporated city, town, or village. Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 480, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.
• Texas Section 29.002 - Creation
  A municipal court is created in each municipality. A reference in state law to a "corporation court" means a "municipal court." Acts 1985, 69th Leg.,...
• Texas Section 29.003 - Jurisdiction
  (a) A municipal court, including a municipal court of record, shall have exclusive original jurisdiction within the municipality's territorial limits and property owned by the...
• Texas Section 29.004 - Judge
  (a) The judge and alternate judges of the municipal court in a home-rule city are selected under the municipality's charter provisions relating to the election...
• Texas Section 29.005 - Term Of Office
  The judge of a municipal court serves for a term of office of two years unless the municipality provides for a longer term pursuant to...
• Texas Section 29.006 - Temporary Replacement In General-law Municipalities
  If a municipal judge of a municipality incorporated under the general laws of this state is temporarily unable to act, the governing body may appoint...
• Texas Section 29.007 - Municipal Court Panels Or Divisions; Temporary Judges
  (a) A home-rule city by charter or by ordinance may divide the municipal court into two or more panels or divisions, one of which shall...
• Texas Section 29.010 - Clerk
  (a) In a municipality that provides for the election of a municipal judge, the municipal court clerk is elected in the same manner unless by...
• Texas Section 29.011 - Vacancy
  The governing body of the municipality shall by appointment fill a vacancy in the office of municipal judge or clerk for the remainder of the...

SUBCHAPTER A-1 RECUSAL OR DISQUALIFICATION OF MUNICIPAL JUDGES

• Texas Section 29.013 - Report To Texas Judicial Council
  (a) The secretary of the municipality in a municipality with a municipal court, including a municipal court of record, or the employee responsible for maintaining...
• Texas Section 29.051 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Active judge" means a person who holds office as a district court judge or statutory county court judge. (2) "Presiding judge"...
• Texas Section 29.052 - Motion For Recusal Or Disqualification
  (a) A party in a hearing or trial in a municipal court, including a municipal court of record, may file with the clerk of the...
• Texas Section 29.053 - Notice
  A party filing a motion for recusal or disqualification under this subchapter shall serve on all other parties or their counsel: (1) copies of the...
• Texas Section 29.054 - Statement Opposing Or Concurring With Motion
  A party may file with the clerk of the court a statement opposing or concurring with a motion for recusal or disqualification at any time...
• Texas Section 29.055 - Procedure Following Filing Of Motion; Recusal Or Disqualification Without Motion
  (a) Before further proceedings in a case in which a motion for the recusal or disqualification of a municipal judge has been filed, the judge...
• Texas Section 29.056 - Hearing On Motion
  (a) A regional presiding judge who receives a request for the assignment of a judge to hear a motion to recuse or disqualify shall: (1)...
• Texas Section 29.057 - Procedure Following Granting Of Motion
  (a) If a motion for recusal or disqualification is granted after a hearing is conducted as provided by Section 29.056, the judge who heard the...
• Texas Section 29.058 - Appeal
  (a) After a municipal court of record has rendered a final judgment in a case, a party may appeal an order that denies a motion...
• Texas Section 29.059 - Contempt
  If a party files a motion to recuse or disqualify under this subchapter and it is determined by the judge hearing the motion, at the...

SUBCHAPTER B MUNICIPAL COURTS IN CERTAIN CITIES

• Texas Section 29.060 - Compensation
  (a) An active judge who is assigned to hear a motion to recuse or disqualify a municipal judge under this subchapter is not entitled to...
• Texas Section 29.101 - Municipality Of More Than 250,000
  (a) A municipality with a population of more than 250,000 may by ordinance establish two municipal courts. With the confirmation of the governing body of...
• Texas Section 29.102 - Municipality Of 130,001 To 285,000
  (a) An incorporated municipality with a population of 130,001 to 285,000 by ordinance may establish up to four additional municipal courts. The judge of each...
• Texas Section 29.103 - Municipal Courts In El Paso
  (a) The City of El Paso by ordinance may establish additional municipal courts as needed. The judge of each additional court must meet the same...
• Texas Section 29.104 - Municipal Court Proceedings Outside Corporate Limits
  The municipal court of a municipality with a population of 3,500 or less may conduct its proceedings within the corporate limits of a contiguous incorporated...
• Texas Section 29.105 - Municipal Court Proceedings In Municipality Participating In Police Department Contract
  A municipality that contracts with one or more municipalities for the operation of a joint police department may conduct its municipal court proceedings within the...

Last modified: September 28, 2016