Tex. Gov't Code § 27.003 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
EFFECT OF PRECINCT BOUNDARY CHANGES.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A person who has served as justice of the peace of a precinct for 10 or more consecutive years preceding a change in boundaries of the precinct is not ineligible for reelection in the precinct because of residence outside the precinct as long as the justice's residence is within the boundaries of the precinct as they existed before the change.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 480, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.27.htm
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- sha256 2be887c98b41e975a00e85ab98d6d9cbb5998cb994ee9a05949e5fa2105973af
- 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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