Texas Election Code Title 1, Chapter 1 - General Provisions

• Texas Section 1.001 - Short Title
  This code may be cited as the Election Code. Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.
• Texas Section 1.002 - Applicability Of Code
  (a) This code applies to all general, special, and primary elections held in this state. (b) This code supersedes a conflicting statute outside this code...
• Texas Section 1.003 - Construction Of Code
  (a) The Code Construction Act (Chapter 311, Government Code) applies to the construction of each provision in this code, except as otherwise expressly provided by...
• Texas Section 1.004 - Internal References
  In this code: (1) a reference to a title, chapter, or section without further identification is a reference to a title, chapter, or section of...
• Texas Section 1.005 - Definitions
  In this code: (1) "City secretary" includes a city clerk or, in a city that has no city secretary or clerk, the city officer who...
• Texas Section 1.006 - Effect Of Weekend Or Holiday
  (a) If the last day for performance of an act is a Saturday, Sunday, or legal state or national holiday, the act is timely if...
• Texas Section 1.007 - Delivering, Submitting, And Filing Documents
  (a) When this code provides for the delivery, submission, or filing of an application, notice, report, or other document or paper with an authority having...
• Texas Section 1.008 - Timeliness Of Action By Mail
  When this code requires an application, notice, report, or other document or paper to be delivered, submitted, or filed within a specified period or before...
• Texas Section 1.009 - Time Of Receipt Of Mailed Document
  (a) When this code provides that an application, notice, or other document or paper that is delivered, submitted, or filed by mail is considered to...
• Texas Section 1.010 - Availability Of Official Forms
  (a) The office, agency, or other authority with whom this code requires an application, report, or other document or paper to be submitted or filed...
• Texas Section 1.011 - Signing Document By Witness
  (a) When this code requires a person to sign an application, report, or other document or paper, except as otherwise provided by this code, the...
• Texas Section 1.012 - Public Inspection Of Election Records
  (a) Subject to Subsection (b), an election record that is public information shall be made available to the public during the regular business hours of...
• Texas Section 1.013 - Destruction Of Records
  After expiration of the prescribed period for preserving voted ballots, election returns, other election records, or other records that are preserved under this code, the...
• Texas Section 1.014 - Election Expenses
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by law, the expenses incurred in the conduct of a general or special election shall be paid by the political...
• Texas Section 1.015 - Residence
  (a) In this code, "residence" means domicile, that is, one's home and fixed place of habitation to which one intends to return after any temporary...
• Texas Section 1.017 - Ineligibility No Defense To Prosecution
  It is no defense to prosecution under this code that a person who receives an official ballot is ineligible to vote in the election for...
• Texas Section 1.018 - Applicability Of Penal Code
  In addition to Section 1.03, Penal Code, and to other titles of the Penal Code that may apply to this code, Title 4, Penal Code,...
• Texas Section 1.019 - Required Evidence Or Testimony
  (a) A party to an offense under this code may be required to furnish evidence or testimony about the offense. (b) Evidence or testimony required...
• Texas Section 1.020 - Voting Disability Or Candidacy Disqualification: Determination Of Mental Incapacity
  (a) A person determined to be totally mentally incapacitated by a court exercising probate jurisdiction is not subject to a voting disability or candidacy disqualification...

Last modified: September 28, 2016