Texas Election Code Title 2, Chapter 15 - General Administration Of Registration

SUBCHAPTER A FORM AND CONTENTS OF REGISTRATION CERTIFICATE; REPLACEMENT OF CERTIFICATE

• Texas Section 15.001 - Required Contents
  (a) Each voter registration certificate issued must contain: (1) the voter's name in the form indicated by the voter, subject to applicable requirements prescribed by...
• Texas Section 15.002 - Optional Contents
  (a) A voter registration certificate may contain an explanation of the voter's rights or duties under this code, including: (1) the procedure by which the...
• Texas Section 15.003 - Signing Certificate By Voter
  (a) On receipt of a voter registration certificate issued under this title, the person to whom the certificate is issued must personally sign it in...
• Texas Section 15.004 - Replacement Certificate
  (a) A voter whose registration certificate is lost or destroyed may obtain a replacement certificate by: (1) delivering a written or electronic notice of the...

SUBCHAPTER B CORRECTION OF REGISTRATION INFORMATION

• Texas Section 15.005 - Notice Of Identification Requirements
  (a) The voter registrar of each county shall provide notice of the identification requirements for voting prescribed by Chapter 63 and a detailed description of...
• Texas Section 15.021 - Notice Of Change In Registration Information By Voter
  (a) If a voter discovers incorrect information on the voter's registration certificate or if any of the information becomes incorrect because of a change in...
• Texas Section 15.0215 - Notice Of Federal Judge Or State Judge Status
  (a) In this section, "federal judge" and "state judge" have the meanings assigned by Section 13.0021. (b) A federal judge, a state judge, or the...
• Texas Section 15.022 - Correction Of Registration Records
  Sec. 15.022. CORRECTION OF REGISTRATION RECORDS. (a) The registrar shall make the appropriate corrections in the registration records, including, if necessary, deleting a voter's name...
• Texas Section 15.023 - Time For Certain Deletions From Suspense List
  If the name of a voter whose residence is changed on the registration records to another county election precinct in the same county appears on...
• Texas Section 15.024 - Corrected Registration Certificate
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), after correcting the registration records with respect to a voter, if necessary, the registrar shall issue the voter...
• Texas Section 15.025 - Effective Date Of Certain Changes In Registration Information
  (a) Except as provided by Subsections (b) and (d), the registration of a voter described by this subsection whose information is changed on the registration...
• Texas Section 15.027 - Notice To Voter Of Precinct Boundary Change
  (a) Before the effective date of the abolishment of a county election precinct or a change in its boundary, the registrar shall deliver written notice...

SUBCHAPTER C CONFIRMATION OF RESIDENCE

• Texas Section 15.028 - Notice Of Unlawful Voting To Prosecutor
  (a) If the registrar determines that a person who is not a registered voter voted in an election, the registrar shall execute and deliver to...
• Texas Section 15.051 - Confirmation Notice
  (a) If the registrar has reason to believe that a voter's current residence is different from that indicated on the registration records, the registrar shall...
• Texas Section 15.052 - Official Confirmation Notice And Confirmation Notice Response Forms
  (a) The officially prescribed form for a confirmation notice must include: (1) a statement that, if the voter fails to submit to the registrar a...

SUBCHAPTER D SUSPENSE LIST

• Texas Section 15.053 - Response To Confirmation Notice
  (a) Not later than the 30th day after the date a confirmation notice is mailed, the voter shall submit to the registrar a written, signed...
• Texas Section 15.081 - Suspense List
  (a) The registrar shall maintain a suspense list containing the name of each voter: (1) who fails to submit a response to the registrar in...
• Texas Section 15.082 - Availability Of Registrar's List
  (a) The registrar shall furnish a copy of the suspense list to any person requesting it or shall furnish that portion of the list requested....
• Texas Section 15.083 - Delivery Of List To Secretary Of State
  (a) The secretary of state may require the registrar to deliver a copy of the suspense list to the secretary in the form prescribed by...
• Texas Section 15.084 - Availability Of Secretary Of State's List
  (a) The secretary of state shall furnish a copy of a suspense list delivered under Section 15.083 to any person requesting it or shall furnish...
• Texas Section 15.085 - Unlawful Use Of Information On Suspense Lists
  (a) A person commits an offense if the person uses information in connection with advertising or promoting commercial products or services that the person knows...

SUBCHAPTER E VOTING ON STATEMENT OF RESIDENCE

• Texas Section 15.086 - Internet Access To Suspense Information
  Any Internet website maintained by the secretary of state that permits a person to determine the person's voter registration status shall, to the extent practicable,...
• Texas Section 15.111 - Notation On List Of Registered Voters
  (a) The registrar shall enter the notation "S", or a similar notation approved by the secretary of state, on the list of registered voters beside...

SUBCHAPTER F CERTIFICATE FILES

• Texas Section 15.112 - Authorization To Vote On Statement
  In an election held on or after the date the voter's name is entered on the suspense list and before November 30 following the second...
• Texas Section 15.141 - Active Certificate File
  (a) The registrar shall maintain a file containing the duplicate initial registration certificates of voters whose registrations are effective. (b) The registrar shall maintain the...
• Texas Section 15.142 - Inactive Certificate File
  (a) The registrar shall maintain a file containing the duplicate initial registration certificates of voters whose registrations have been canceled. (b) The registrar shall maintain...
• Texas Section 15.143 - Maintenance Of Files As Electronic Data-processing Information
  The registrar may maintain the active or inactive certificate file as information stored in a form suitable for use with electronic data-processing equipment. After the...
• Texas Section 15.144 - Place For Keeping Files; Security
  (a) The registration certificate files maintained under this subchapter shall be kept in the registrar's office at all times in a place and manner ensuring...

Last modified: September 28, 2016