§ 30.018.Court Clerk's Execution Docket

An administrative modernisation provision with one condition attached.

A clerk required to enter information into an execution docket under the rules or other law may enter and maintain the information in an electronic format — provided the format allows the information to be retrieved on the same basis as it would be retrieved manually using an index or cross-index to the docket that is otherwise required by law.

The condition is about retrieval, not storage. The execution docket records writs issued to enforce judgments, and its value lies in being searchable — a title examiner or judgment creditor needs to find every entry against a name. A database that holds everything but cannot be searched the way the index could would be a loss.

The provision does not require any particular technology, and it does not require electronic maintenance at all. A clerk may use an electronic format; a paper docket remains permissible.

The requirement that the electronic version match the manual index in retrieval capability preserves the public's access rather than the format, which is the right thing to preserve.

Subsection (b) was repealed effective December 4, 2025.