Texas Constitution, April 2008 Page: 82
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Art. 5 Sec. 7a
Each district judge shall be elected by the qualified voters at a General Election
and shall be a citizen of the United States and of this State, who is licensed to
practice law in this State and has been a practicing lawyer or a Judge of a Court
in this State, or both combined, for four (4) years next preceding his election,
who has resided in the district in which he was elected for two (2) years next 5
preceding his election, and who shall reside in his district during his term of
office and hold his office for the period of four (4) years, and who shall receive
for his services an annual salary to be fixed by the Legislature. The Court shall
conduct its proceedings at the county seat of the county in which the case is
pending, except as otherwise provided by law. He shall hold the regular terms
of his Court at the County Seat of each County in his district in such manner
as may be prescribed by law. The Legislature shall have power by General or
Special Laws to make such provisions concerning the terms or sessions of each
Court as it may deem necessary.
The Legislature shall also provide for the holding of District Court when
the Judge thereof is absent, or is from any cause disabled or disqualified from
presiding. (Amended Aug. 11, 1891, Nov. 8, 1949, and Nov. 5, 1985.)
Sec. 7a. JUDICIAL DISTRICTS BOARD; REAPPORTIONMENT
OF JUDICIAL DISTRICTS. (a) The Judicial Districts Board is created to
reapportion the judicial districts authorized by Article V, Section 7, of this
constitution.
(b) The membership of the board consists of the Chief Justice of the Texas
Supreme Court who serves as chairman, the presiding judge of the Texas Court
of Criminal Appeals, the presiding judge of each of the administrative judicial
districts of the state, the president of the Texas Judicial Council, and one person 5
who is licensed to practice law in this state appointed by the governor with the
advice and consent of the senate for a term of four years. In the event of a vacancy
in the appointed membership, the vacancy is filled for the unexpired term in the
same manner as the original appointment.
(c) A majority of the total membership of the board constitutes a quorum for
the transaction of business. The adoption of a reapportionment order requires a
majority vote of the total membership of the board.
(d) The reapportionment powers of the board shall be exercised in the
interims between regular sessions of the legislature, except that a reapportionment 5
may not be ordered by the board during an interim immediately following a regular
session of the legislature in which a valid and subsisting statewide apportionment
of judicial districts is enacted by the legislature. The board has other powers
and duties as provided by the legislature and shall exercise its powers under the
policies, rules, standards, and conditions, not inconsistent with this section, that
the legislature provides.
(e) Unless the legislature enacts a statewide reapportionment of the judicial
districts following each federal decennial census, the board shall convene not
later than the first Monday of June of the third year following the year in which
the federal decennial census is taken to make a statewide reapportionment of the
districts. The board shall complete its work on the reapportionment and file its 5
order with the secretary of state not later than August 31 of the same year. If the
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