(a) 
The city council hereby creates a court of this city, hereafter referred to as the municipal court of the city.
(b) 
The municipal court, once created, shall be regulated by the laws of the state and shall be empowered to act in the capacity as defined by the laws of the state.
(c) 
The municipal court is being created for the primary purpose of acting on violation of ordinances of the city.
(Resolution 7 adopted 7/25/89; Ordinance 0030 adopted 12/11/90; Ordinance adopting Code)
(a) 
Appointment.
The city council may appoint one or more substitute/temporary municipal court judges to sit for the regular judge of the municipal court when such regular judge is temporarily unable to act for any reason. The city council, with the recommendation of the presiding judge of the municipal court, shall appoint a qualified person to act in the judge’s place. The judge, or anyone acting in the judge’s place, shall receive such compensation as may be set by the city council.
(b) 
Powers.
The temporary municipal court judge shall possess the same qualifications required of the regular judge and shall have all the powers and duties of the judge for whom such substitute/temporary municipal judge is sitting while so acting. The presiding municipal judge shall supervise all activities of any substitute/temporary municipal court judge.
(c) 
Term.
The appointment or reappointment of a substitute/temporary judge shall be for a term of one (1) year from the date of their appointment by the city council. The substitute/temporary municipal court judge may be removed by the mayor with a majority vote of the entire city council.
(Ordinance 0108 adopted 9/9/03)
(a) 
A collection fee is hereby authorized and imposed, as provided by article 103.0031, Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, in the amount of 30% of debts and accounts receivable, such as unpaid fines, fees, court costs, forfeited bonds, and restitution, ordered paid by a municipal court serving the city, when such debt or account receivable is more than 60 days past due and has been referred to an attorney or private vendor for collection.
(b) 
A collection fee is hereby authorized and imposed, as provided by article 103.0031, Texas Code of Criminal procedure, in the amount of 30% of amounts in cases in which the accused has failed to appear:
(1) 
As promised under subchapter A, chapter 543, Texas Transportation Code, or other law;
(2) 
In compliance with a lawful written order to appear issued under article 14.06(b) [of the Code of Criminal Procedure], or other law;
(3) 
In compliance with a lawful summons issued under article 15.03(b), Texas Code of Criminal Procedure;
(4) 
In compliance with a lawful order of a court serving the city; or
(5) 
As specified in a citation, summons, or other notice authorized by section 682.002, Texas Transportation Code, that charges the accused with a parking or stopping offense;
when such amounts are more than 60 days past due and have been referred to an attorney or private vendor for collection.
(Ordinance 0214 adopted 8/19/14)
(a) 
Pursuant to the authority granted to the city by the state legislature through an amendment of section 2, article 102.017, Code of Criminal Procedure, as added by section 1, chapter 818, Acts of the 73rd Legislature, 1993, the city council hereby establishes the city municipal court building security fund and further authorizes and directs the imposition and collection of a security fee in the amount adopted by city council as a cost of court from all defendants convicted in the city municipal court for a misdemeanor offense.
(b) 
The fee is to be collected by the clerk of the court and remitted to the municipal treasurer for deposit in a fund to be established and known as the municipal court building security fund. Money in the fund may be used only to finance those items as specified in V.T.C.A., Code of Criminal Procedure, article 102.017when used for the purpose of providing security services for buildings housing a municipal court.
(c) 
The fund will be administered by or under the direction of the governing body of the city.
(Ordinance 0059 adopted 10/11/95; Ordinance adopting Code)
(a) 
The city council hereby establishes the municipal court fund as authorized pursuant to section 102.0172 of the Code of Criminal Procedure for the collection and administration of technology fees. Section 102.0172 authorizes the collection of said fees beginning September 1, 1999.
(b) 
Each person convicted of a misdemeanor in municipal court shall pay a technology fee in the amount adopted by city council in addition to any fines and costs assessed beginning September 1, 1999 and continuing thereafter as allowed by law.
(c) 
The monies collected by the municipal court shall be deposited into a technology fund with said revenues in the fund used for the purchase of or to maintain technological enhancements as specified in V.T.C.A., Code of Criminal Procedure, article 102.0172. The accounting of said funds shall be maintained by the city municipal court but shall not be expended unless specifically authorized by the city council.
(Ordinance 0087 adopted 11/9/99; Ordinance 0087 adopted 9/9/03; Ordinance adopting Code)
(a) 
This section establishes the municipal court local truancy prevention and diversion fund pursuant to article 134.156, Local Government Code, as amended; and establishes the assessment and collection of a specified percentage of the local consolidated fee authorized by SB 346 under article 134.103, Local Government Code, as amended.
(b) 
For purposes of this section, the following words shall have the meaning given herein:
Convicted.
Shall have the meaning as defined in article 133.101, Local Government Code, as amended
Fee.
The local consolidated fee on conviction of nonjailable misdemeanor established under article 134.103, Local Government Code
Fund.
The local truancy prevention and diversion fund established under article 134.156, Local Government Code
(c) 
The fund will be a separate fund in the city treasury to be administered by or under the direction of the city council.
(d) 
Each defendant convicted of a fine-only nonjailable misdemeanor offense in the municipal court shall pay the fee as set forth in article 134.103, Local Government Code as a cost of court in addition to any other fines, penalties, or other court costs required by city ordinance or state or federal law and a percentage of such fee shall be allocated to the local truancy prevention and diversion fund, as amended. A separate fee must be paid for each separate conviction of a fine-only misdemeanor offense.
(e) 
The municipal judge may waive the local consolidated fee in the case of financial hardship.
(f) 
The municipal clerk shall collect the fee and pay it to the city treasury for allocation and deposit in the funds designated in article 134.103, Local Government Code. The local truancy prevention and diversion fund may be used only for the purposes set forth in article 134.156, Local Government Code.
(Ordinance 0257 adopted 1/27/20)