Texas Election Code Title 17, Chapter 501 - Local Option Elections On Sale Of Alcoholic Beverages

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 501.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Alcoholic beverage," "beer," "commission," "liquor," "mixed beverage," and "wine and vinous liquor" have the meanings assigned by Section 1.04, Alcoholic Beverage...
• Texas Section 501.002 - References In Other Law
  A reference in law to an election or a local option election held under Chapter 251, Alcoholic Beverage Code, means an election held under this...

SUBCHAPTER B MANNER OF CALLING ELECTION

• Texas Section 501.003 - Enforcement
  The enforcement provisions of the Alcoholic Beverage Code that relate generally to a violation of a provision of that code, including Chapter 101, Alcoholic Beverage...
• Texas Section 501.021 - Election To Be Held By Petition
  On proper petition by the required number of voters of a county, justice precinct, or municipality in the county, the commissioners court shall order a...
• Texas Section 501.022 - Qualifications For New Political Subdivision To Hold Election
  (a) A political subdivision must have been in existence for at least 18 months before a local option election to legalize or prohibit the sale...
• Texas Section 501.023 - Application For Petition
  (a) If 10 or more qualified voters of any county, justice precinct, or municipality file a written application and provide proof of publication of notice...
• Texas Section 501.024 - Heading, Statement, And Issue On Application For Petition To Prohibit
  (a) An application for a petition seeking an election to prohibit the sale of alcoholic beverages of one or more of the various types and...
• Texas Section 501.025 - Heading, Statement, And Issue On Application For Petition To Legalize
  (a) An application for a petition seeking an election to legalize the sale of alcoholic beverages of one or more of the various types and...
• Texas Section 501.026 - Petition Requirements
  A petition must show the date the petition is issued by the county clerk and be serially numbered. Each page of a petition must bear...
• Texas Section 501.027 - Heading And Statement On Petition To Prohibit
  (a) Each page of the petition for a local option election seeking to prohibit the sale of alcoholic beverages of one or more of the...
• Texas Section 501.028 - Heading And Statement On Petition To Legalize
  (a) Each page of the petition for a local option election seeking to legalize the sale of alcoholic beverages of one or more of the...
• Texas Section 501.029 - Offense: Misrepresentation Of Petition
  (a) A person commits an offense if the person misrepresents the purpose or effect of a petition issued under this chapter. (b) An offense under...
• Texas Section 501.030 - Copies Of Petition
  (a) The county clerk shall supply as many copies of the petition as may be required by the applicants but not to exceed more than...
• Texas Section 501.031 - Verification Of Petition
  (a) The voter registrar of the county shall check the names of the signers of petitions and the voting precincts in which the signers reside...
• Texas Section 501.032 - Requirements To Order Election
  (a) The commissioners court, at its next regular session on or after the 30th day after the date the petition is filed, shall order a...
• Texas Section 501.033 - Record In Minutes
  The date a petition is presented, the names of the signers, and the action taken with respect to the petition shall be entered in the...
• Texas Section 501.034 - Issues To Appear In Order For Election
  (a) The election order must state in its heading and text whether the local option election to be held is for the purpose of prohibiting...
• Texas Section 501.035 - Issues
  (a) In the ballot issues prescribed by this section, "wine" is limited to vinous beverages that do not contain more than 17 percent alcohol by...
• Texas Section 501.036 - Issue On Mixed Beverages
  (a) A local option election does not affect the sale of mixed beverages unless the proposition specifically mentions mixed beverages. (b) In any local option...
• Texas Section 501.037 - Evidence Of Validity
  The commissioners court election order is prima facie evidence of compliance with all provisions necessary to give the order validity or to give the commissioners...

SUBCHAPTER C HOLDING OF ELECTION

• Texas Section 501.038 - Frequency Of Elections
  A local option election on a particular issue may not be held in a political subdivision until after the first anniversary of the most recent...
• Texas Section 501.101 - Applicability Of Election Code
  Except as provided by this chapter, the officers holding a local option election shall hold the election in the manner provided by the other provisions...
• Texas Section 501.102 - Election Precincts
  (a) County election precincts shall be used for a local option election to be held in an entire county or in a justice precinct. (b)...
• Texas Section 501.103 - Polling Places; Notice
  (a) The election shall be held at the customary polling place in each election precinct. If the customary polling place is not available, the commissioners...
• Texas Section 501.1035 - Election In Territory Annexed By Municipality
  A municipality that includes an area annexed to the municipality on or after the date on which a petition requesting a local option election in...
• Texas Section 501.104 - Number Of Ballots Furnished
  If the election is conducted using printed ballots, the county clerk shall furnish the presiding judge of each election precinct with at least the number...
• Texas Section 501.105 - Issue On Ballot
  (a) The issue ordered to appear on the ballot for an election ordered by the commissioners court must be the same as the issue applied...
• Texas Section 501.106 - Time For Vote Tally
  The votes for a local option election shall be counted and the report of the election submitted to the commissioners court within 24 hours after...
• Texas Section 501.107 - County Payment Of Election Expenses
  The county shall pay the expense of holding a local option election authorized by this chapter in the county, justice precinct, or municipality in that...
• Texas Section 501.108 - Deposit Required For Certain Elections
  (a) If a county is not required to pay the initial expense, regardless of any authority to receive reimbursement, of a local option election under...

SUBCHAPTER D PROCEDURE FOLLOWING ELECTION

• Texas Section 501.109 - Election In Municipalities
  (a) This section applies only to an election to permit or prohibit the legal sale of alcoholic beverages of one or more of the various...
• Texas Section 501.151 - Declaration Of Result
  (a) On completing the canvass of the election returns, the commissioners court shall make an order declaring the result and cause the clerk of the...
• Texas Section 501.152 - Order Prima Facie Evidence
  The order of the commissioners court declaring the result of the election is prima facie evidence that all provisions of law have been complied with...
• Texas Section 501.153 - Certification Of Result
  Not later than the third day after the date the result of a local option election has been declared, the county clerk shall certify the...
• Texas Section 501.154 - Posting Order Prohibiting Sale
  (a) A commissioners court order declaring the result of a local option election and prohibiting the sale of any or all types of alcoholic beverages...
• Texas Section 501.155 - Election Contest
  (a) The enforcement of local option laws in the political subdivision in which an election is being contested is not suspended during an election contest....

Last modified: September 28, 2016