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The Commissioners Courts in Texas are served and provided continued education by the County Judges and Commissioners Association [3] events and the official association publication County Progress. [4] In Texas, the relationship between institutions of county government is designed to be independent and adversarial.
County Commission Texas historical marker in Brenham, Texas. A county commission (or a board of county commissioners) is a group of elected officials (county commissioners) collectively charged with administering the county government in some states of the United States. A county usually has three to five members of the county commission. [1]
Texas has a total of 254 counties, by far the largest number of counties of any state. Each county is run by a five-member Commissioners' Court consisting of four commissioners elected from single-member districts (called commissioner precincts) and a county judge elected at-large. The county judge does not have authority to veto a decision of ...
Norman reviewed 16 counties that paid commissioners from $26,769 in Allegan to $7,250 in Ionia. Under state law, a sitting commission cannot raise its salaries but can do so for a future board.
The county judge does not have authority to veto a decision of the commissioners court; the judge votes along with the commissioners (being the tie-breaker in close calls). In smaller counties, the county judge actually does perform judicial duties, but in larger counties the judge's role is limited to serving on the commissioners court and ...
Sections 15 through 17 of Article V, as well as Chapters 25 and 26 of the Texas Government Code, outline the duties of County Court officers. Section 15 states that the county judge shall be "well informed in the law of the State", "a conservator of the peace", and shall be elected for a four-year term.
Harris County, the state's most populous, is home to 60 district courts - each one covering the entire county. While district courts can exercise concurrent jurisdiction over an entire county, and they can and do share courthouses and clerks to save money (as allowed under an 1890 Texas Supreme Court case), each is still legally constituted as ...
Jun. 10—The Lewis County Citizen Salary Commission voted on Tuesday not to adjust salaries for the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) and to table further discussion of the officials' pay ...