Tex. Spec. Dist. Local Laws Code § 1116.351 · Subchapter H. EXPANSION OF DISTRICT TERRITORY TO INCLUDE ALBA-GOLDEN, YANTIS, AND HAWKINS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICTS
ELECTION ON EXPANSION OF DISTRICT; ORDER; NOTICE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The board may order one or more elections in the area of one or more of the following independent school districts, as they were constituted on May 15, 1979, on the question of whether that area shall be included in the district:
(1) Alba-Golden;
(2) Yantis; and
(3) Hawkins.
(b) The area of a school district in which an election is held is included in the district if a majority of registered voters in that school district voting at the election approve annexation.
(c) The board shall give notice of the election in the district and in the area of each school district sought to be included in the district in the manner provided for a bond election under Section 1116.203.
(d) The election order must provide for clerks as in county elections and must state:
(1) the date of the election;
(2) the location of the polling places;
(3) the form of the ballot; and
(4) the presiding judge and alternate judge for each polling place.
(e) The board shall declare the results of the election.
(f) An election to expand district territory to include the area of a school district may not be held under this section before the first anniversary of the date of an election on the same proposition.
(g) Section 41.001(a), Election Code, does not apply to an election ordered under this section.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 112 (S.B. 1026), Sec. 1.01, eff. April 1, 2015.
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