Tex. Elec. Code § 501.027 · Subchapter B. MANNER OF CALLING ELECTION
HEADING AND STATEMENT ON PETITION TO PROHIBIT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Each page of the petition for a local option election seeking to prohibit the sale of alcoholic beverages of one or more of the various types and alcoholic contents must be headed "Petition for Local Option Election to Prohibit."
(b) The petition must contain a statement just ahead of the signatures of the petitioners, as follows: "It is the hope, purpose and intent of the petitioners whose signatures appear hereon to see prohibited the sale of alcoholic beverages referred to in the issue set out above."
(c) The issue to be voted on must be:
(1) clearly stated in the petition; and
(2) one of the issues listed in Section 501.035.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 975 (H.B. 1799), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2005.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/EL/htm/EL.501.htm
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