Texas Family Code 65.004 – Truancy Courts; Jurisdiction
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(a) The following are designated as truancy courts:
(1) in a county with a population of 2.1 million or more, the constitutional county court;
(2) justice courts; and
(3) municipal courts.
(b) A truancy court has exclusive original jurisdiction over cases involving allegations of truant conduct.
Terms Used In Texas Family Code 65.004
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Justice: when applied to a magistrate, means justice of the peace. See Texas Government Code 312.011
- Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005
- Population: means the population shown by the most recent federal decennial census. See Texas Government Code 311.005
(c) A municipality may enter into an agreement with a contiguous municipality or a municipality with boundaries that are within one-half mile of the municipality seeking to enter into the agreement to establish concurrent jurisdiction of the municipal courts in the municipalities and provide original jurisdiction to a municipal court in which a truancy case is brought as if the municipal court were located in the municipality in which the case arose.
(d) A truancy court retains jurisdiction over a person, without regard to the age of the person, who was referred to the court under § 65.051 for engaging in truant conduct before the person’s 19th birthday, until final disposition of the case.