§ 81.0025
LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE
riod as approved by the County Judges and Com-
missioners Association of Texas.
Added by Acts 1959, 71st Leg., ch. 418, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 199U.
Amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 111, § 1, eff. Jan. 1,
1992; Aets 1995. 79th Leg., ch. 294. § 1, eff. Aug. 28, 1990.
r V.T.CA.. Local Government Code 5 87.011 et seq.
Section 2 of the 1991 amendaton• act provides:
"This Act takes effect Januarc 1, 1992, and applies only to credit for
continuing education homy that accrues on ur after that date."
$ 81.003. Clerk
(a) The Bounty clerk is the clerk of the commission-
ers court. The clerk shall:
(1) serve the court4 doting each of its terms;
(2) keep the com•t's books, papers, records, and
effects; and
(3) issue the notices, writs, and process necessary
for the proper execution of the com•t's powers and
duties.
(b) The com•t shall require the clerk to record in
suitable books the proceedings of each term of the
court. After each term the county judge or the
presiding member of the court shall read and sign and
the clerk shall attest this record.
(c) The clerk shall record the court's authorised
proceedings behveen terms. On the first day of the
first tetml after these proceedings, the county judge or
the presiding member of the court shall read and sign
this record.
Acts 1987. 70th Leg., ch. 199, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.
$ 81.009. Seal
(a) The commissioners court shall have a seal on
which is engraved:
(ll the words "Commissioners Calrt, (name of
county) County, Texas"; and -
(2) afive-pointed star or a design selected by the
court and approved by the secretary of state.
(b) The clerk shall keep the seal and use it to
authenticate official acts of the court ot• its presiding
officer or clerk that require a seal for authentication.
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 199, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
$ 81.005. Terms of Court, Meetings
(a) At the last regular term of each fiscal ,year of
the county, the commissioners court by order shall
designate a day of the week on which the court shall
convene in a regular term each month during the next
fiscal year. If the completion of the court's business
does not requite a monthly term, the court need not
hold more than one term a quarter. A regular term
may continue for one week but may be adjourned
earlier if the court's business is completed.
(b) The county judge or three county commission-
ers may call a special term of the court. A special
term may continue until the court's business is cmn-
pleted.
(c) Except as provided by Subsection (fl of this
section, the term shall be held at:
(1) the county seat at the courthouse;
(2) an auxiliary courthouse, courthouse annex, or
another building in the counh acquhed by the
county under Chapter 292. 293, or 300 or another
law, that houses county administt•atinn offices nr
county or district courts, located inside the cih~
limits of the county seat; or
(3) the regular meeting place of another political
subdivision if the commissioners court set~-es a
county with a population of 350,000 or more and i>
meeting with the governing body of that political
subdivision located wholly or partly within the coun-
ty and if the regular meeting place of that poliucal
subdivision is in the county.
(d) At the first regular term of each calendar cexr.
the commissioners court may select. on no less than
seven days notice, a new site at which terms are to be
held during that year pursuant to Subsection (c)~2).
(e) On initial enactment of this legislation the coun-
ty commissioners court may select a new site pursuant
to Subsection (c)(2) on seven days notice and passage
at a regular meeting of commissioners court.
(fl If the commissioners court detet~rtines that in
the interest of public safety the term should be held al
a site other than the site selected under Subsection
(d), the commissioners cout•t may, after notice, hold a
cetmt at a different site as determined by Che commt~-
sioners cout•C.
(g) Any business of the commissioners court that is
required by law to be conducted at a regular [et•nt
may also be conducted at any meeting of the coure
held on a day on which the court routinely and
periodically meets, regat•dless of whether the periodic
interval is weekly, monthly, quarterly, annually. or
some other interval.
(h) The commissioners court may designate a day
of the week on which the court shall convene in a
regular term each month other than the day of [he
week designated under Subsection la).
Acts 1987, 70th Leg.. ch. 149, § 1, eff. Sept. 1. 19S i. Amend-
ed b}• Acts 1959. 71st Leg., ch. 601, § 1, eff. June H, 19R!);
Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. I6. § 19.01(3:3), eff. Aug. 26. 1991:
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 043. § 1, eff. Aug. 28, 1990.
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ORDER N0. 23732
RGF'ROVRL OF SETTING MEETING DRIES
FOR COMMISSIONERS' COURT FOR THE 1996/1997 FISCAL YEAR
On this the ~Sth day of November° 1996, ~.~pon motion made by
Commissioner Holekamp, seconded by Commissioner Lehman, the
Co~.irt unanimously approved by a vote of 4-0-0, the setting of
meeting dates for Commissioners' Court for the 1996/1997
fiscal year' as per^ Section a1. 005 of the Local Gover^nment Code
to be on the 2nd and 4th Monday at 9 R.M of each month.