1. (a) The district judge or district judges trying criminal cases in each judicial district shall:

   1. (1) establish a community supervision and corrections department; and
   2. (2) employ district personnel as necessary to conduct presentence investigations, supervise and rehabilitate defendants placed on community supervision, enforce the conditions of community supervision, and staff community corrections facilities.
2. (b) The district judges trying criminal cases and judges of statutory county courts trying criminal cases that are served by a community supervision and corrections department are entitled to participate in the management of the department.

3. (c) Except as provided by Subsection (d), one department serves all courts and counties in a judicial district if:

   1. (1) two or more judicial districts serve a county; or
   2. (2) a district includes more than one county.
4. (d) The board may adopt rules to allow more than one department to serve a judicial district that includes more than one county if providing more than one department will promote administrative convenience or economy or improve services.
5. (e) The board may adopt rules allowing departments to contract with one another for services or facilities.

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 7.11, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.