Title EL, Election Code

Sec. 42.005. RELATIONSHIP TO DISTRICTS AND JUSTICE AND COMMISSIONERS PRECINCTS. (a) A county election precinct, including a consolidated precinct, may not contain territory from more than one of each of the following types of territorial units: (1) a commissioners precinct; (2) a…

Sec. 42.0051. COMBINING CERTAIN PRECINCTS. (a) If changes in county election precinct boundaries to give effect to a redistricting plan result in county election precincts with fewer than 3,000 registered voters, a commissioners court for a general or special election, or for a p…

Sec. 42.006. POPULATION REQUIREMENTS. (a) Except as provided by this section and Section 42.0051, a county election precinct must contain at least 100 but not more than 5,000 registered voters. (b) For an election precinct in a county with a population under 100,000, the minimum …

Sec. 42.007. COMBINING INCORPORATED AND UNINCORPORATED TERRITORY. A commissioners court may not establish a county election precinct containing territory inside a city with a population of 10,000 or more and unincorporated territory outside that city unless the commissioners cour…

Sec. 42.008. CONSOLIDATING PRECINCTS IN SPECIAL ELECTION. (a) In a special election for which use of county election precincts is required, the commissioners court may consolidate, on the recommendation of the county election board, two or more county election precincts into a si…

Sec. 42.009. CONSOLIDATING PRECINCTS IN PRIMARY ELECTION. The county executive committee of a political party holding a primary election may order two or more county election precincts consolidated into a single precinct if the polling place is located so it will adequately serve…

Sec. 42.010. RECOMMENDATION ON ELIMINATION OF LESS POPULOUS PRECINCTS. (a) Repealed by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 143, Sec. 4, eff. May 24, 2013. (b) After each redistricting of a territorial unit described by Section 42.005(a)(1) or (2), the commissioners court shall consid…

Sec. 42.031. REVIEWING PRECINCTS FOR COMPLIANCE: BOUNDARY CHANGES. (a) During March or April of each odd-numbered year, each commissioners court shall determine whether the county election precincts comply with Sections 42.005, 42.006, and 42.007. The commissioners court may make…

Sec. 42.032. REDISTRICTING: BOUNDARY CHANGES. If changes in county election precinct boundaries are necessary to give effect to a redistricting plan under Article III, Section 28, of the Texas Constitution, each commissioners court shall order the changes before October 1 of the …

Sec. 42.033. EFFECTIVE DATE OF BOUNDARY CHANGE. (a) A change in a county election precinct boundary takes effect on the first day of the first even-numbered voting year following the voting year in which the change is ordered. (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), for a bound…

Sec. 42.034. NOTICE TO REGISTRAR. The commissioners court shall deliver a certified copy of an order changing a county election precinct boundary to the voter registrar not later than the seventh day after the date the order is adopted. Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff.…

Sec. 42.035. PUBLIC NOTICE. (a) Beginning with the first week following the week in which an order changing a county election precinct boundary is adopted, the commissioners court shall publish notice of the change: (1) in a newspaper in the county once a week for three consecuti…

Sec. 42.036. ADDITIONAL NOTICE IN POPULOUS COUNTIES. (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 precinc…

Sec. 42.037. FILING MAP OF PRECINCT BOUNDARY CHANGES WITH SECRETARY OF STATE. (a) Not later than the 120th day after the date an order changing a county election precinct boundary is adopted, the county clerk shall deliver to the secretary of state a map depicting the affected pr…

Sec. 42.061. PRECINCTS OF POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OTHER THAN COUNTY. (a) The governing body of a political subdivision other than a county shall establish the election precincts for elections ordered by an authority of the political subdivision. (b) The precincts may be established…

Sec. 42.0615. NOTICE TO REGISTRAR OF BOUNDARY CHANGE OF POLITICAL SUBDIVISION. A political subdivision that changes its boundaries or the boundaries of districts used to elect members to the governing body of the political subdivision shall not later than the 30th day after the d…

Sec. 42.062. PRECINCTS FOR CERTAIN SPECIAL ELECTIONS. A county authority ordering an election shall establish the election precincts for the election if: (1) the election is a special election affecting only part of the county; or (2) the election relates to the creation, organiz…

Sec. 42.0621. PRECINCTS FOR ELECTIONS HELD ON NOVEMBER UNIFORM ELECTION DATE. (a) In an election held on the November uniform election date, the political subdivisions to which Section 42.002(a)(5) applies shall use the regular county election precincts. (b) If an election precin…

Sec. 42.063. BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION. Each election precinct established under this subchapter must be described by natural or artificial boundaries, by survey lines, or if the precinct is coterminous with one or more county election precincts, by use of the county election precinct…

Sec. 42.064. PRECINCT IDENTIFICATION. If more than one election precinct is established under this subchapter, the authority establishing the precincts shall identify each precinct by a name or number. Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.

Sec. 42.065. CONFLICTS WITH OTHER LAW. A law outside this subchapter supersedes this subchapter to the extent of any conflict. Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.