DUTY TO PROVIDE JAILS; LOCATION
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Sherrod v. Moore (1991)
Most recently applied in Signature Services, Inc. v. Tarrant County (May 1994)
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) The commissioners court of a county shall provide safe and suitable jails for the county.
(b) The jails must be located at the county seat unless the county has only one jail, in which case the jail may be located anywhere in the county at the discretion of the commissioners court.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.