Local government is defined to include a county.
Thus, section 2256.003 applies to funds owned by and under the control of a county commissioners court. You state that the clerks of the district and county courts in Fort Bend County place funds in a depository pursuant to chapter 117 of the Local Government Code, rather than having them invested pursuant to section 2256.003 of the Government Code. You wish to know how chapter 117 of the Local Government Code can be harmonized with section 2256.003 of the Government Code. Subchapter B of chapter 117 authorizes the commissioners court to select a depository for trust funds held by county and district clerks. If the commissioners court has selected a depository, section 117.052 provides that a county or district clerk who is to have for more than three days legal custody of money deposited in court pending the result of a legal proceeding shall deposit the money in the depository.