Texas Local Government Code Title 11, Chapter 361 - Municipal And County Authority Relating To Jails
SUBCHAPTER A CRIMINAL JUSTICE CENTER IN CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES
- Texas Section 361.001 - Municipalities And Counties Covered By Subchapter
This subchapter applies only to: (1) a municipality that has a population of more than 17,500 and is not the county seat; and (2) the...
- Texas Section 361.002 - Criminal Justice Center; Office Restriction Inapplicable
(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...
- Texas Section 361.003 - Contract Provisions Relating To Joint Center
(a) If the municipality and county agree to jointly provide a criminal justice center, they may specify by contract the purposes, terms, rights, and responsibilities...
SUBCHAPTER B JUSTICE CENTERS LOCATED ON STATE LINE
- Texas Section 361.004 - Grants And Loans
To finance the facilities of the criminal justice center, the municipality or county jointly or severally may accept grants, gratuities, advances, and loans from the...
- Texas Section 361.021 - Definition
In this subchapter, "law" means a state statute, a written opinion of a court of record, a municipal ordinance, an order of the commissioners court...
- Texas Section 361.022 - Contract To Provide Justice Center
(a) A county in this state and a municipality in that county, both of which are located on the state line, may contract with an...
- Texas Section 361.023 - Contractual Authority Contingent On Legislation Of Other State
A county or municipality in this state may make the contract only if the other state enacts legislation that relates to the establishment of a...
- Texas Section 361.024 - Financing Of Justice Center
The governing body of the municipality or county in this state that makes the contract may finance its share of the construction, operation, management, or...
- Texas Section 361.025 - Management Of Justice Center; Personnel
(a) The contracting parties may specify in the contract the manner of determining the persons responsible for the: (1) operation, alteration, maintenance, cleaning, and repair...
- Texas Section 361.026 - Responsibility For Operation Of Jail
The contract must provide: (1) that the sheriffs of the two counties are jointly responsible for the operation of any jail, lockup, jail annex, or...
- Texas Section 361.027 - Courtrooms And Court Proceedings At Justice Center
(a) A court of appeals or a district, county, justice, or municipal court with jurisdiction in the county or municipality in which a part of...
- Texas Section 361.028 - Extent To Which Each State's Law Applies At Justice Center
(a) Except as otherwise provided by this subchapter, the law of both states that relates to the rights, duties, liabilities, privileges, and immunities arising from...
SUBCHAPTER C JOINT MUNICIPAL AND COUNTY JAIL FACILITIES IN CERTAIN COUNTIES
- Texas Section 361.029 - Arrest, Prosecution, Extradition, And Service Of Process At Justice Center
(a) A person who is in the justice center in the custody, under the law of this state, of a peace officer or center personnel:...
- Texas Section 361.041 - Municipal-county Jail Facilities In County With Population Of Less Than 20,000
(a) A county with a population of less than 20,000 and any municipality located within the county may finance, construct, maintain, and operate jail facilities...
- Texas Section 361.042 - Municipal-county Jail Facilities In Certain Counties
(a) Instead of providing and maintaining its own jail, the commissioners court of a county with a population of 110,000 to 113,000 may provide safe...
SUBCHAPTER D PROVISIONS FOR CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES
- Texas Section 361.043 - Jailer For Municipal-county Jail Facilities
(a) A contract made under Section 361.041 or 361.042 may provide for a jailer to be custodian of the jail facilities. (b) The jailer is...
- Texas Section 361.051 - Definitions
In this subchapter: (1) "Credit agreement" means any one or more of a loan agreement, revolving credit agreement, agreement establishing a line of credit, letter...
- Texas Section 361.052 - Financing Eligible Projects
(a) The governing body of an entity is empowered and authorized to issue, or to provide for the issuance of, obligations and to execute credit...
- Texas Section 361.053 - Revenue Bonds
(a) An entity may issue revenue bonds, without approval of the bonds at an election, for the purposes herein provided pursuant to a resolution which...
SUBCHAPTER E MUNICIPAL CONTRACT WITH COUNTY OR PRIVATE ENTITY FOR JAIL FACILITIES
- Texas Section 361.054 - Limitations On Obligations And Lease Obligations
(a) Obligations issued or lease obligations incurred hereunder shall be within the interest rate limitations of Chapter 1204, Government Code. (b) From the proceeds from...
- Texas Section 361.061 - Authority To Contract
The governing body of a municipality may contract with a private vendor or a county to provide for the financing, design, construction, leasing, operation, purchase,...
- Texas Section 361.062 - Contract Requirements
A contract made under this subchapter must: (1) require the private vendor or county to operate the facility in compliance with minimum standards of construction,...
- Texas Section 361.063 - Award Of Improvement Project
(a) An award made under Section 361.062(9) must be made to the responsible offeror whose proposal is determined to be the lowest evaluated offer resulting...
- Texas Section 361.064 - Sovereign Immunity Inapplicable
A private vendor operating under a contract authorized by this subchapter is not entitled to claim sovereign immunity in a suit arising from the services...
- Texas Section 361.065 - Maximum Inmate Population
A facility authorized by this subchapter must be designed, constructed, operated, and maintained to hold not more than an average daily population of 4,000 inmates....
- Texas Section 361.066 - Application To Prior Facilities
The governing body may not convert a facility into a correctional facility operated by a private vendor if, before August 3, 1987, the facility is:...
SUBCHAPTER F DISCIPLINARY MATTERS RELATING TO MUNICIPAL AND COUNTY JAILS
- Texas Section 361.067 - Location Of Jail Restricted In Populous Municipality
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, a private vendor or county may not establish a jail, detention center, work camp, or related facility...
- Texas Section 361.081 - Supervisory Or Disciplinary Authority Of Inmates
(a) An inmate in a municipal or county jail may not act in a supervisory or administrative capacity over another inmate. (b) An inmate in...
SUBCHAPTER G RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
- Texas Section 361.082 - Restraint Of Pregnant Inmate Or Defendant
(a) A municipal or county jail may not use restraints to control the movement of a pregnant woman in the custody of the jail at...
- Texas Section 361.101 - Application Of Law Relating To Free Exercise Of Religion
For purposes of Chapter 110, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, an ordinance, rule, order, decision, or practice that applies to a person in the custody...
Last modified: September 28, 2016