82R2279 CAE-D
By: Legler H.B. No. 1014
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to appointment of a municipal judge to serve as a visiting
justice of the peace in certain proceedings involving misdemeanor
traffic offenses.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 27, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 27.060 to read as follows:
Sec. 27.060. MUNICIPAL JUDGE ACTING AS VISITING JUSTICE.
(a) A justice of the peace, with the approval of the county judge,
may appoint a person serving as a municipal court judge in a
municipality located in the same county as the precinct for which
the justice of the peace serves to serve as a visiting justice of
the peace in criminal cases involving a misdemeanor traffic
offense.
(b) The visiting justice shall sit in those matters
authorized by the justice of the peace and has the powers of the
justice of the peace in relation to those matters.
(c) When a visiting justice is appointed, the clerk shall
enter in the minutes as part of the proceedings in the case a record
that gives the visiting justice's name and shows that the justice
of the peace has appointed the municipal court judge to serve as a
visiting justice.
(d) The salary of a visiting justice appointed as provided
by this section shall be paid from the budget of the justice of the
peace for whom the visiting justice is sitting.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.