CHAPTER 73. ADMINISTRATION OF COURTS OF APPEALS
GOVERNMENT CODE
TITLE 2. JUDICIAL BRANCH
SUBTITLE F. COURT ADMINISTRATION
CHAPTER 73. ADMINISTRATION OF COURTS OF APPEALS
SUBCHAPTER A. TRANSFER OF CASES
Sec. 73.001. AUTHORITY TO TRANSFER. The supreme court may order
cases transferred from one court of appeals to another at any
time that, in the opinion of the supreme court, there is good
cause for the transfer.
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 480, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.
Sec. 73.002. JURISDICTION WHEN TRANSFERRED. (a) The court of
appeals to which a case is transferred has jurisdiction of the
case without regard to the district in which the case originally
was tried and to which it is returnable on appeal.
(b) The court to which a case is transferred shall deliver,
enter, and render the opinions, orders, and decisions in a
transferred case at the place where the court to which the case
is transferred regularly sits as provided by law.
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 480, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.
Sec. 73.003. ORAL ARGUMENT. (a) Except as provided by
Subsections (b) and (e), the justices of the court of appeals to
which a case is transferred shall hear oral argument, after due
notice to the parties or their attorneys, at the place from which
the case is originally transferred.
(b) If requested by all parties or their attorneys, the oral
argument in a transferred case may be heard in the regular place
of the court to which the case is transferred.
(c) If a case is transferred to a court that regularly sits not
more than 35 miles from the place the court from which the case
was transferred regularly sits, the court, at the discretion of
its chief justice and after notice to the parties or their
counsel, may hear oral arguments at the place it regularly sits.
For purposes of this subsection, the place where a court of
appeals regularly sits is that specified in Subchapter C, Chapter
22, and the mileage between the places is that determined by the
comptroller under Chapter 660.
(d) The actual and necessary traveling and living expenses of
the justices in hearing an oral argument at the place from which
the case is transferred shall be paid by the state from funds
appropriated for that purpose.
(e) At the discretion of its chief justice, a court to which a
case is transferred may hear oral argument through the use of
teleconferencing technology as provided by Section 22.302. The
court and the parties or their attorneys may participate in oral
argument from any location through the use of teleconferencing
technology. The actual and necessary expenses of the court in
hearing an oral argument through the use of teleconferencing
technology shall be paid by the state from funds appropriated for
the transfer of case, as specified in Subsection (d).
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 480, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.
Amended by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 148, Sec. 2.92(a), eff.
Sept. 1, 1987; Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 5.95(106), eff.
Sept. 1, 1995; Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 732, Sec. 2, eff. Sept.
1, 1997; Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1085, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1,
1999.