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The Commissioners Courts in Texas are served and provided continued education by the County Judges and Commissioners Association [3] events and the official association publication County Progress. [4] In Texas, the relationship between institutions of county government is designed to be independent and adversarial.
In one of the odd provisions of the Texas Government Code, there is no requirement that a municipal judge be an attorney if the municipal court is not a court of record (Chapter 29, Section 29.004), but the municipal judge must be a licensed attorney with at least two years experience in practicing Texas law if the municipal court is a court of ...
The county judge does not have authority to veto a decision of the commissioners court; the judge votes along with the commissioners (being the tie-breaker in close calls). In smaller counties, the county judge actually does perform judicial duties, but in larger counties the judge's role is limited to serving on the commissioners court and ...
Open letter to Monroe County sheriff, county commissioners. I was unable to attend the last public meeting. My taxes went up 30+% last year. This new jail project will kick them into the stratosphere.
Commissioners appropriated $690,000 in the salary line item for the court’s 2024 budget while the figure the judges are asking for, which includes the changes made Thursday, is $768,065.
A commission is a formal document issued to appoint a named person to high office or as a commissioned officer in a territory's armed forces. A commission constitutes documentary authority that the person named is vested with the powers of that office and is empowered to execute official acts. [1] A commission often takes the form of letters ...
Texas has a total of 254 counties, by far the largest number of counties of any state. Each county is run by a five-member Commissioners' Court consisting of four commissioners elected from single-member districts (called commissioner precincts) and a county judge elected at-large. The county judge does not have authority to veto a decision of ...
In 2023, a law was passed creating a new appellate level court with jurisdiction over appeals from the new Texas business courts and state government related litigation, the Fifteenth Court of Appeals. [8] In June 2024, the Governor began appointing judges to the Fifteenth Court of Appeals. [9]