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Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Government Code § 54.2816: EXCHANGE OF BENCHES.

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  1. GOVERNMENT CODE
  2. TITLE 2. JUDICIAL BRANCH
  3. SUBTITLE D. JUDICIAL PERSONNEL AND OFFICIALS
  4. CHAPTER 54. MASTERS; MAGISTRATES; REFEREES; ASSOCIATE JUDGES
  5. SUBCHAPTER SS. DENTON COUNTY CRIMINAL LAW MAGISTRATE COURT

(a) The judges of the criminal law magistrate court may exchange benches and may sit and act for each other in any proceeding pending in the criminal law magistrate court.

(b) When conducting a capias pro fine hearing for any court, the criminal law magistrate court acts in the same capacity and with the same authority as the judge who issued the capias pro fine.

Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 861 (H.B. 3474), Sec. 4.006, eff. September 1, 2023.

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