§ 140B.063.Jurisdiction

The judicial authority the rest of the subchapter depends on, in three sentences.

If a petition is filed in the district court in any county, the court has jurisdiction to hear and determine the matter presented and to enter any order required to implement this chapter.

"In any county" is the part that matters in a chapter enforced from everywhere. Demands issue from many offices, petitions may be filed in the recipient’s county or in Travis County, and this confirms that whichever court receives one may decide it.

"Any order required to implement this chapter" avoids enumerating. Petitions arrive to modify a demand, to set it aside, to enforce it, and to compel an answer during an examination, and a single grant covers them all.

Any final order is subject to appeal.

Stating that was necessary. An order about a pre-suit demand resolves no lawsuit, so its appealability would otherwise be doubtful — and a person ordered to produce privileged material would be left choosing between compliance and contempt as the price of review.

Failure to comply with any final order entered by a court under this chapter is punishable by the court as contempt of the order.

Contempt is what the whole subchapter finally rests on. A demand is not self-executing: non-compliance leads to an enforcement petition, the petition to an order, the order to contempt.

The chain is worth keeping in view because of where it does not run. Contempt punishes disobeying a court; it does nothing about material destroyed before any court was involved, which is the work of the separate criminal offense.