Texas Election Code Title 14, Chapter 241 - Contest For State Senator Or Representative

• Texas Section 241.001 - Applicability Of Chapter
  This chapter applies to a contest of a general or special election for the office of state senator or state representative. Acts 1985, 69th Leg.,...
• Texas Section 241.002 - Parties
  The provisions of this title relating to who may be or is required to be a party in an election contest in the district court...
• Texas Section 241.003 - Petition
  (a) The contestant must state the grounds for the contest in a petition in the same manner as a petition in an election contest in...
• Texas Section 241.004 - Answer
  (a) The contestee must reply to the contestant's petition in an answer in the same manner as an answer to a petition in an election...
• Texas Section 241.005 - Method Of Delivering Contest Papers To Parties
  (a) The copies of the petition and answer must be delivered to the parties by: (1) personal delivery; or (2) registered or certified mail, return...
• Texas Section 241.006 - Delivery Of Contest Papers To Presiding Officer
  (a) On receipt of a petition or answer, the secretary of state shall enter the date of filing on the document. If the document is...
• Texas Section 241.0061 - Security For Costs
  (a) Not later than the third day after the date the contestee's answer is received by the presiding officer of the house having jurisdiction, the...
• Texas Section 241.007 - Runoff Delayed
  (a) If a special election for which a runoff is necessary according to the official result is contested, the secretary of state shall promptly notify...
• Texas Section 241.008 - Presiding Officer As Party
  If the presiding officer of the house having jurisdiction is a party to a contest, the house shall elect one of its members to perform...
• Texas Section 241.009 - Master Of Discovery
  (a) As soon as practicable after receiving the contestee's answer, the presiding officer of the house having jurisdiction shall appoint a master of discovery to...
• Texas Section 241.0091 - Frivolous Petition
  (a) The master may on the master's own motion, or shall on the motion of the committee, determine whether the contestant's petition is frivolous or...
• Texas Section 241.010 - Discovery And Depositions
  (a) Any party to a contest may conduct discovery and take depositions under the procedures applicable to a civil suit in the district court, subject...
• Texas Section 241.011 - Referral Of Contest To Committee; Hearing By Committee
  (a) As soon as practicable after receiving the contestee's answer, the presiding officer of the house in which the contest is pending shall refer the...
• Texas Section 241.012 - Hearing Procedure
  The procedure for the committee hearing of an election contest shall be prescribed by rules of the house in which the contest is pending. Acts...
• Texas Section 241.013 - Evidence
  Except as otherwise provided by house rules, the rules of evidence generally applicable to a civil suit in the district court apply to the hearing...
• Texas Section 241.014 - Attendance Of Witnesses
  (a) The committee to which an election contest is referred has the same authority as other legislative committees to compel attendance of witnesses and production...
• Texas Section 241.015 - Committee Report
  (a) Except as provided by Section 241.019, as soon as practicable after completing its hearing on a contest, the committee shall make a written report...
• Texas Section 241.016 - Minority Report
  Any member of the committee dissenting from the views of the majority may file a minority report. Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1,...
• Texas Section 241.017 - Withdrawal Of Contest
  (a) A contestant may withdraw the election contest at any time before the filing of the committee report by filing with the committee chair and...
• Texas Section 241.018 - Disposition Of Contest By House
  (a) Except as provided by Section 241.019, the house in which a contest is pending shall dispose of the contest as provided by this section....
• Texas Section 241.019 - Disposition Of Contest By Committee
  The committee to which a contest of a special election is referred shall take action on the contest as prescribed by Section 221.012 if: (1)...
• Texas Section 241.020 - New Election Ordered If Contested Election Void
  In an election contest in which the election is declared void, the house or committee, as appropriate, shall include in its judgment an order directing...
• Texas Section 241.021 - Delivery Of Certified Copies Of Judgment
  (a) After the judgment in a contest is rendered, the secretary of the senate or the chief clerk of the house of representatives, as appropriate,...
• Texas Section 241.022 - Procedures For New Election Generally
  (a) If the contested election is declared void, the new election shall be held in the same manner as the contested election, except as otherwise...
• Texas Section 241.023 - Accelerated Election Schedule
  If another election is necessary under the judgment in an election contest, the applicable time intervals for conducting a special election for state senator or...
• Texas Section 241.024 - Candidates In New Election
  (a) The candidates in a new election ordered in an election contest in which the election is declared void under this chapter are determined in...
• Texas Section 241.025 - Costs Of Contest
  (a) Subject to Section 221.013(a), the house considering an election contest may assess the costs of the contest against any one or more of the...

Last modified: September 28, 2016