Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 159.053 · Subchapter C. FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE BY COUNTY JUDICIAL OFFICERS
FILING DATES; TIMELINESS OF FILING.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A county judicial officer shall file the financial statement required by this subchapter within the time prescribed by Section 572.026, Government Code. A candidate for office as a county judicial officer shall file the financial statement required by this subchapter within the time prescribed by Section 572.027, Government Code.
(b) Except as provided in Subsection (c), the timeliness of the filing is governed by Section 572.029, Government Code.
(c) A person is considered to have timely filed a financial statement under this subchapter if:
(1) the statement is personally delivered not later than 5 p.m. of the last day for filing the statement; or
(2) the county clerk with whom the statement is required to be filed has adopted rules and procedures to provide for the electronic filing of the statement and the statement is electronically filed in accordance with those rules and procedures not later than midnight of the last day for filing the statement.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 763, Sec. 7, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
Amended by:
Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 894 (H.B. 1035), Sec. 5, eff. September 1, 2013.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.159.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
This section cites
Provisions in this library that the text above cites, as it prints each citation. A range cited as “ss. 61.13-61.16” links its first and last provisions.
Government Code
- Tex. Gov't Code § 572.026FILING DATES FOR STATE OFFICERS AND STATE PARTY CHAIRS.Printed as Section 572.026, Government Code
- Tex. Gov't Code § 572.027FILING DATES FOR CANDIDATES.Printed as Section 572.027, Government Code
- Tex. Gov't Code § 572.029TIMELINESS OF FILING.Printed as Section 572.029, Government Code
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