Tex. Election Code § 141.002
This is the official text of Tex. Election Code § 141.002, part of Texas’s Election Code — governs how elections are conducted.
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§ 141.002. EFFECT OF BOUNDARY CHANGE ON RESIDENCE REQUIREMENT FOR PRECINCT OFFICE.
Official statutory text
(a) Instead of the six-month residence requirement prescribed by Section 141.001(a)(5), a candidate for or appointee to a precinct office must be a resident of the precinct on the date prescribed by Section 141.001(a)(5) and must have resided continuously in the county in which the precinct is located for six months immediately preceding that date if an order creating the precinct or changing the boundary of the precinct:
(1) was adopted less than seven months before that date; or
(2) was in litigation at any time during the seventh month immediately preceding that date.
(b) For the purpose of this section, an order is in litigation if the judgment concluding a judicial proceeding in which the order is mandated or the validity of the order is challenged has not become final.
(1) was adopted less than seven months before that date; or
(2) was in litigation at any time during the seventh month immediately preceding that date.
(b) For the purpose of this section, an order is in litigation if the judgment concluding a judicial proceeding in which the order is mandated or the validity of the order is challenged has not become final.
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