Twenty-Ninth Emergency Order Regarding the COVID-19 State of Disaster, Misc. Docket No. 20-9135

The record

Jurisdiction

Texas

Level

Court

Authority

Tex. Gov't Code § 22.0035(b)

Issued

2020-11-11 Nov. 11, 2020

Effective

2020-11-11 (immediately) (read as 2020-11-11)

End

2021-02-01 (renewed by the Thirty-Third Emergency Order) (read as 2021-02-01)

In force

Nov. 11, 2020 to Feb. 1, 2021

Quarters

2020 Q42021 Q1

2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3

Limitation types

Gathering capCourts and public offices

Addressees

• all courts
• jurors

Functions reached

• CT courts (winter 2020-21 jury suspension in justice and municipal courts; approved-plan requirement elsewhere)
• PJ litigation
• SV collections

Collection

Texas TX

Operative words

4. Courts must not conduct in-person proceedings contrary to the Guidance for All Court Proceedings During COVID-19 Pandemic issued by the Office of Court Administration... Prior to holding any in-person proceedings, a court must submit an operating plan... Courts must continue to use all reasonable efforts to conduct proceedings remotely.... 6. A justice or municipal court must not hold an in-person jury proceeding, including jury selection or a jury trial, prior to February 1. 7. [Other courts] must not conduct an in-person jury proceeding unless: a. the local administrative district judge... has... submitted a plan for conducting jury proceedings... b.... the court has obtained prior approval for that jury proceeding from the local administrative district judge; c. not more than five days before the jury proceeding, the local administrative district judge... has certified that local conditions and plan precautions are appropriate.

Enforcement

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