Tex. Elec. Code § 233.003 · Chapter 233. CONTEST ON MEASURE
CONTESTEE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The contestee must be at least one of the following:
(1) the presiding officer of the final canvassing authority for the contested election;
(2) the presiding officer of the authority that ordered the contested election or the ordering authority, if ordered by an individual; or
(3) if the person specified by Subdivision (1) or (2) is incapacitated or cannot act for any other reason, another member of the specified authority.
(b) The secretary of state must be a contestee in a contest of an election on a proposed constitutional amendment or any other statewide measure submitted by the legislature.
(c) The costs of an election contest may not be assessed against a contestee specified by this section or against the governmental or political entity the contestee represents.
(d) A contestee specified by this section may not be required to give bond on appeal.
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.233.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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