Houston Municipal Courts traffic school rules
City of Houston Municipal Courts handles tickets in Houston. It applies the Texas rule and adds the facts below.
Rules checked
What this court adds
Houston Municipal Courts: the court's own facts, each with the court page it comes from.
- Court fee for the course
- $144 to $209Mandatory DSC: $144.00 moving violation, $169.00 school zone moving violation. Discretionary DSC: $184.00 moving violation, $209.00 school zone moving violation
- How to ask
- Ask by mail or in person.
- Deadline to ask
- By the arraignmentAsk by the arraignment date on your notice.
Against the Texas rule
- Court fee: $144 to $209 at the Houston Municipal Courts. The Texas rule: $10.
- How to ask: by mail or in person at the Houston Municipal Courts. The Texas rule: in person, by mail or online.
Deadline, in the court's words
On or before your arraignment court date; a discretionary course may still be requested after that date at a higher fee.
The rule this court applies
The court's values laid over the Texas rule, with the level of each row. Who qualifies, the points and every other field of the state rule are on the Texas page.
The rule, court and state together
- The program
- Driving safety course dismissal
- What it does
- Dismissal of the ticket
- Speed limit for the course
- Up to 24 mph over
- How often
- Once a year, counted from the ticket date
- Deadline to ask
- By the arraignmentAsk by the arraignment date on your notice.
Courses that serve Texas
No court publishes its own list of schools, so these are the courses for the state.
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- Aceable, $49 (opens in a new tab)
- DefensiveDriving.com, $25 (opens in a new tab)
- DriversEd.com, $45 (opens in a new tab)
Listed by name; prices are each provider's own, as of October 2026. Length, format and approval for each course are on the Texas page.
Check a ticket from Houston Municipal Courts
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Sources
Checked against these pages in .
The court's own page: City of Houston Municipal Courts (opens in a new tab). The sources of the state rule are listed on the Texas page.