Vernon's Texas Rules Annotated - VTRA TX R PARKER CTY LOC RLS DIST CT Emergency Matters/Unavailability of Presiding Judge

Every application for action or relief of any kind shall be presented first to the judge of the court in which the case was filed.  If that judge is not available to hear the application, then it may be presented to the Administrative Judge for presentment to another court with subject matter jurisdiction who shall make all orders, writs and process returnable to the court to which the case was filed.  Hearings on applications for temporary injunctions, temporary receiverships, and the like shall be set in the court to which the case has been originally filed by consulting with that court.  After a judge has announced a ruling on the application or deferred ruling, the application shall not be presented to any other judge without leave of the judge to which it was first presented.

Whenever immediate action of a judge is required in an emergency when the clerk's office is not open for business, the case shall, nevertheless, at the earliest practicable time be filed in a court as provided by these rules, and all writs and process shall be returnable to the assigned court.