Texas Family Code 58.101 – Definitions
Terms Used In Texas Family Code 58.101
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Justice: when applied to a magistrate, means justice of the peace. See Texas Government Code 312.011
In this subchapter:
(1) “Criminal justice agency” has the meaning assigned by § 411.082, Government Code.
(2) “Department” means the Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas.
(3) “Disposition” means an action that results in the termination, transfer of jurisdiction, or indeterminate suspension of the prosecution of a juvenile offender.
(4) “Incident number” means a unique number assigned to a child during a specific custodial or detention period or for a specific referral to the office or official designated by the juvenile board, if the juvenile offender was not taken into custody before the referral.
(5) “Juvenile justice agency” means an agency that has custody or control over juvenile offenders.
(6) “Juvenile offender” means a child who has been assigned an incident number.
(7) “State identification number” means a unique number assigned by the department to a child in the juvenile justice information system.
(8) “Uniform incident fingerprint card” means a multiple-part form containing a unique incident number with space for information relating to the conduct for which a child has been taken into custody, detained, or referred, the child’s fingerprints, and other relevant information.