Johnson City Municipal Court

Johnson City Municipal Court cases in Washington County, Johnson, TN

Johnson City Juvenile Court is a municipal court with limited juvenile jurisdiction. It handles cases involving minors under Johnson City ordinances, including juvenile traffic citations, curfew or truancy violations, alcohol/tobacco possession, and other municipal ordinance offenses; it conducts intake, diversion, disposition, and enforcement for those matters. It does not hear most state-law juvenile cases or family-law matters. Delinquency petitions under state law, dependency and neglect, abuse, custody/visitation, paternity, child support, and termination of parental rights are within the jurisdiction of Washington County Juvenile Court (General Sessions Court, juvenile division). Common case types in Johnson City Juvenile Court: traffic and ordinance-based (quasi-criminal) juvenile matters; it does not handle civil or family cases.

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Services and Case Types Handled in Johnson City Municipal Court

Johnson City Juvenile Court provides intake, filing, scheduling, and hearing services for cases involving minors. It hears:
- Delinquency and unruly/status offenses (truancy, curfew, runaway, underage alcohol/tobacco, traffic/ordinance violations).
- Dependency and neglect, abuse, and related protective matters; custody/guardianship of minors when at issue in juvenile proceedings.
- Paternity and child support for children born out of wedlock; contempt/enforcement.
The court conducts detention, adjudicatory, dispositional, review, and permanency hearings; sets probation and diversion conditions; and coordinates referrals to community services. It issues juvenile protective and no-contact/restraining orders within its cases and can impose stay-away conditions; petitions for adult domestic Orders of Protection are handled in General Sessions Court. Services include case filings, docketing, records (subject to confidentiality), compliance monitoring, and payment processing. Juvenile proceedings are bench trials; the court does not provide jury services.