By: Turner, B. H.B. No. 62
73R1286 LGF-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the place for justices of the peace of certain counties
1-3 to hold court.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 27.051(f), Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (f) A justice of the peace of a precinct in a county with a
1-8 population of less than 40,000 <30,000> may hold court in the
1-9 county courthouse. If requested by the justice, the commissioners
1-10 court of the county may provide and furnish a suitable place in the
1-11 courthouse for the justice to hold court.
1-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-18 passage, and it is so enacted.