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§ 42.036 — ADDITIONAL NOTICE IN POPULOUS COUNTIES

EL § 42.036Title 4. TIME AND PLACE OF ELECTIONS · Ch. 42. ELECTION PRECINCTS · Art. B. CHANGING COUNTY PRECINCT BOUNDARIES

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(a)This section applies only to a county with a population of one million or more.
(b)The commissioners court shall deliver written notice of each proposed change and of each order making a change in a county election precinct boundary to:
(1)the county chair of each political party that held a primary election in the county on the most recent general primary day;
(2)the political party's precinct chair of each affected election precinct; and
(3)the presiding judge appointed by the commissioners court for each affected election precinct.
(c)The notice of a proposed boundary change must be delivered not later than the seventh day before the date of the commissioners court meeting at which the proposed change will be considered. The notice of an order making a boundary change must be delivered not later than the seventh day after the date the order is adopted.

Legislative history

Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986. Amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 597, Sec. 65, eff. Sept. 1, 1991; Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 864, Sec. 42, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.