Tex. Spec. Dist. Local Laws Code § 8860.052 · Subchapter B. BOARD OF DIRECTORS
METHOD OF ELECTING DIRECTORS: COMMISSIONERS PRECINCTS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The directors of the district are elected according to the commissioners precinct method as provided by this section.
(b) One director is elected by the voters of the entire district, and one director is elected from each county commissioners precinct by the voters of that precinct.
(c) Except as provided by Subsection (e), to be eligible to be a candidate for or to serve as director at large, a person must be a registered voter in the district. To be a candidate for or to serve as director from a county commissioners precinct, a person must be a registered voter of that precinct.
(d) A person shall indicate on the application for a place on the ballot:
(1) the precinct that the person seeks to represent; or
(2) that the person seeks to represent the district at large.
(e) When the boundaries of the county commissioners precincts are redrawn after each federal decennial census to reflect population changes, a director in office on the effective date of the change, or a director elected or appointed before the effective date of the change whose term of office begins on or after the effective date of the change, shall serve in the precinct to which elected or appointed even though the change in boundaries places the director's residence outside the precinct for which the director was elected or appointed.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1091 (S.B. 1290), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2011.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/SD/htm/SD.8860.htm
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