Texas Election Code

§ 172.053 — ADMINISTRATIVE DECLARATION OF INELIGIBILITY AFTER POLLS CLOSE

EL § 172.053Title 10. POLITICAL PARTIES · Part B. PARTIES NOMINATING BY PRIMARY ELECTION · Ch. 172. PRIMARY ELECTIONS · Art. C. WITHDRAWAL, DEATH, AND INELIGIBILITY OF CANDIDATE

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Except for a judicial action in which a candidate's eligibility is in issue, after the polls close on primary election day and before the final canvass for the office sought by the candidate is completed, a candidate for nomination may be declared ineligible only by the presiding officer of the primary's final canvassing authority for that office.

Legislative history

Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.