By: Brown S.B. No. 1043
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the duties of clerk of a justice of the peace court.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Section 27.056, Government Code, is amended to
1-4 read as follows:
1-5 Sec. 27.056. CLERK; OTHER PERSONNEL. (a) Each justice of
1-6 the peace may designate one or more persons to serve as clerk of
1-7 the justice court.
1-8 (b) The clerk may administer oaths and affidavits and make
1-9 certificates and affix the court's seal to those certificates. In
1-10 addition, the clerk shall:
1-11 (1) maintain docket records for all cases filed in the
1-12 justice court;
1-13 (2) maintain an index of all court judgments for cases
1-14 arising in the justice court; and
1-15 (3) <A clerk shall> perform such other <the> duties
1-16 required by law and <shall> assist the judge in handling matters
1-17 before the court.
1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.