Tex. Spec. Dist. Local Laws Code § 8869.052 · Subchapter B. BOARD OF DIRECTORS
ELECTION OF DIRECTORS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Directors 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. Two directors are elected from each county commissioners precinct by the voters of that precinct. Of the two directors elected from each precinct, one must reside in an incorporated area and one must reside in an unincorporated area.
(c) A person shall indicate on the application for a place on the ballot:
(1) the precinct that the person seeks to represent and whether that person resides in an incorporated or in an unincorporated area; or
(2) that the person seeks to represent the district at large.
(d) When the boundaries of the county commissioners precincts are redrawn under Section 18, Article V, Texas Constitution, a director in office on the effective date of the change, or elected or appointed before the effective date of the change to a term of office beginning on or after the effective date of the change, shall serve the term or the remainder of the term in the precinct to which elected or appointed even though the change in boundaries places the person's residence outside the precinct for which the person was elected or appointed.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 112 (S.B. 1026), Sec. 1.05, eff. April 1, 2015.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/SD/htm/SD.8869.htm
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