Sec. 30.00164.  ALTERNATE APPELLATE PROCEDURE.  (a)  If the El Paso Municipal Court of Appeals created by this subchapter is held unconstitutional or invalid, all appeals under this subchapter shall be considered as taken to the county courts at law of El Paso County.  Those appeals shall be docketed as provided by county court at law rules.  The county courts at law of El Paso County have jurisdiction over those appeals and this subchapter applies to those appeals.  One county court at law of El Paso County shall act as the appellate court.  That court shall be designated from time to time as the appellate court by the majority vote of the judges of the county courts at law of El Paso County.  All appeals pending in the appellate court on the date that any decision becomes final holding the municipal court of appeals unconstitutional or invalid shall be transferred by the appellate court to the county courts at law of El Paso County, and all decisions of the appellate court that have become final on or before that date are valid.
(b)  If appeals are taken to the county courts at law of El Paso County under Subsection (a), a reference to "appellate court" in this subchapter means the county court at law of El Paso County that is designated as the appellate court under this section, except that a provision of this subchapter that is inconsistent with the laws, statutes, and rules applicable to creation and organization of the county courts at law of El Paso County will not apply, and an appeal is not tried de novo in the county court at law.
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 480, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.  Renumbered from Government Code, Sec. 30.074 by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 8.06, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.