Texas Family Code 58.301 – Definitions
Terms Used In Texas Family Code 58.301
- 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) “County juvenile board” means a juvenile board created under Chapter 152, Human Resources Code.
(2) “Juvenile facility” means a facility that:
(A) serves juveniles under a juvenile court’s jurisdiction; and
(B) is operated as a holdover facility, a pre-adjudication detention facility, a nonsecure facility, or a post-adjudication secure correctional facility.
(2-a) “Governmental juvenile facility” means a juvenile facility operated by a unit of government.
(3) “Governmental service provider” means a juvenile justice service provider operated by a unit of government.
(4) “Local juvenile justice information system” means a county or multicounty computerized database of information concerning children, with data entry and access by the partner agencies that are members of the system.
(5) “Partner agency” means a service provider or juvenile facility that is authorized by this subchapter to be a member of a local juvenile justice information system or that has applied to be a member of a local juvenile justice information system and has been approved by the county juvenile board or regional juvenile board committee as a member of the system.
(6) “Regional juvenile board committee” means a committee that is composed of two members from each county juvenile board in a region that comprises a multicounty local juvenile information system.