Tex. Elec. Code § 172.053 · Subchapter C. WITHDRAWAL, DEATH, AND INELIGIBILITY OF CANDIDATE
ADMINISTRATIVE DECLARATION OF INELIGIBILITY AFTER POLLS CLOSE.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
Except for a judicial action in which a candidate's eligibility is in issue, after the polls close on primary election day and before the final canvass for the office sought by the candidate is completed, a candidate for nomination may be declared ineligible only by the presiding officer of the primary's final canvassing authority for that office.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/EL/htm/EL.172.htm
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- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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