HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance - 027-1909 - Establishing A Recorders Court Of The City Of Lubbock. - 11/19/1909ORDINANCE NO. 27
AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A RECORDERS COURT OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK, AND PRO-
VIDING FOR THE APPOINTING AND ELECTION OF A RECORDER FOR SAID COURT, AND FIXING
THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF SAID COURT.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
The provision of Titls 18 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Texas having
heretofore been and being now accepted, that there be hereby established in and
for the said City of Lubbock, the Office of Recorder of said City; who shall have
all of the Powers conferred upon him, and upon said Court, by the Statutes of the
State of Texas, and the Ordinances of the said City of Lubbock.
There shall be a Recorder appointed by said Council, who shall hold the said
office until the installation of a new City Council, unless the said City Council
shall sooner discontinue said office by Ordinance, and as such shall hold a court
within the City of Lubbock, by the name of the Recorder's Court of the City of
Lubbock, and which said Court shall be open at all times for the transaction of
business, and said Court shall have jurisdiction and cognizance of all misdemeanors,
breaches of the peace, infractions of the Ordinances of said City, and all other
causes arising under the Laws of said City, and shall be deemed always open for
the trial of said causes.
The said Court shall have full power, authority, and jurisdiction in all cases
arising under the Ordinances of said Corporation, and over any breach and violation
thereof, and of any and all persons thus offending, and to try and determine all
suits, actions, and complaints charging a violation of any Ordinance of said City,
and may grant new trials, on motions in writing, showing sufficient eause and duly
sworn to; and all prosecutions, trials, and proceedings had in said Court shall be
governed by the Laws, and Rules regulatlMetrials, prosecutions, and proceedings
in Justices of the Peace are allowed foror similar services. The Recorder may
require of any person arrested under the provisions of this Ordinance, or any
Ordinance, or under any Statute of the State of Texas, a bond for his good behavior
and to keep the peace, with two good and sufficient sureties, payable to the;said
City, of Lubbock. He shall have full power and authority to issue subpoenas for
witnesses, and to compel their attendance by process of attachment. He may punish
all contempts, by fines or imprisonment or by both such fine and imprisonment. He
may issue subpoenas, attachments, writs of capias, or capias pro fine, warrants of
arrest, search warrants, executions and all other process known to the Law, which
a Justice of the Peace of the said State of Texas may lawfully issue; and all of
said writs and process shall be issued, served and executed under the same forms and
in the same manner as the like process would be when issued by a Justice of the
Pease, and as required by the Ordinances of the City of Lubbock. He shall also have
full power and authority to administer official oaths and all oaths and affirmations
in trials before him. Said Recorder shall possess andexecute in said City of Lubbock,
in criminal cases onlu all of the powers and duties of Justice of the Peace of the
State of Texas, herein named or named and designated in other Ordinances of said City,
or in the Statutes of said State, and shall have the same authority in like process
with said Justice of the Peace in the prevention and suppression of crime.
It is further hereby provided that all money collected as fines or forfeitures or
penalties shall be paid by said Recorder into the City Treasurer of said City of
Lubbock for the use of and by said City.
Passed and approved this the 19th day of Nov. 1909.
F.E. Wheelock, Mayor
ATTEST: W.M. Shaw, City Secretary.
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