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| 1 | 1 | 84R9198 CAE-D | |
| 2 | 2 | By: Peña H.B. No. 1511 | |
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| 5 | 5 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 6 | 6 | AN ACT | |
| 7 | 7 | relating to appointment of a municipal judge to serve as a visiting | |
| 8 | 8 | justice of the peace in certain proceedings involving misdemeanor | |
| 9 | 9 | traffic offenses. | |
| 10 | 10 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 11 | 11 | SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 27, Government Code, is | |
| 12 | 12 | amended by adding Section 27.0551 to read as follows: | |
| 13 | 13 | Sec. 27.0551. MUNICIPAL JUDGE ACTING AS VISITING JUSTICE. | |
| 14 | 14 | (a) A justice of the peace, with the approval of the county judge, | |
| 15 | 15 | may appoint a person serving as a municipal court judge in a | |
| 16 | 16 | municipality located in the same county as the precinct for which | |
| 17 | 17 | the justice of the peace serves to serve as a visiting justice of | |
| 18 | 18 | the peace in criminal cases involving a misdemeanor traffic | |
| 19 | 19 | offense. | |
| 20 | 20 | (b) The visiting justice shall sit in those matters | |
| 21 | 21 | authorized by the justice of the peace and has the powers of the | |
| 22 | 22 | justice of the peace in relation to those matters. | |
| 23 | 23 | (c) When a visiting justice is appointed, the clerk shall | |
| 24 | 24 | enter in the minutes as part of the proceedings in the case a record | |
| 25 | 25 | that gives the visiting justice's name and shows that the justice | |
| 26 | 26 | of the peace has appointed the municipal court judge to serve as a | |
| 27 | 27 | visiting justice. | |
| 28 | 28 | (d) The salary of a visiting justice appointed as provided | |
| 29 | 29 | by this section shall be paid from the budget of the justice of the | |
| 30 | 30 | peace for whom the visiting justice is sitting. | |
| 31 | 31 | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |