Texas Election Code Title 9, Chapter 141 - Candidacy For Public Office Generally

SUBCHAPTER A ELIGIBILITY FOR PUBLIC OFFICE

• Texas Section 141.001 - Eligibility Requirements For Public Office
  (a) To be eligible to be a candidate for, or elected or appointed to, a public elective office in this state, a person must: (1)...
• Texas Section 141.002 - Effect Of Boundary Change On Residence Requirement For Precinct Office
  (a) Instead of the six-month residence requirement prescribed by Section 141.001(a)(5), a candidate for or appointee to a precinct office must be a resident of...
• Texas Section 141.003 - Age And Residence Requirements For Home-rule City Office
  (a) Different age and residence requirements from those prescribed by Section 141.001 may be prescribed by a home-rule city charter, but a minimum age may...

SUBCHAPTER B APPLICATION FOR PLACE ON BALLOT

• Texas Section 141.004 - Effect Of Boundary Change On Residence Requirement For City Office
  In determining whether a person has complied with a residence requirement under Section 141.001 or 141.003 for a city office, residence in an area while...
• Texas Section 141.031 - General Requirements For Application
  (a) A candidate's application for a place on the ballot that is required by this code must: (1) be in writing; (2) be signed and...
• Texas Section 141.032 - Review Of Application; Notice To Candidate
  (a) On the filing of an application for a place on the ballot, the authority with whom the application is filed shall review the application...
• Texas Section 141.033 - Filing Applications For More Than One Office Prohibited
  (a) A candidate may not file applications for a place on the ballot for two or more offices that: (1) are not permitted by law...
• Texas Section 141.034 - Limitation On Challenge Of Application
  (a) An application for a place on the ballot may not be challenged for compliance with the applicable requirements as to form, content, and procedure...
• Texas Section 141.035 - Application As Public Information
  An application for a place on the ballot, including an accompanying petition, is public information immediately on its filing. Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211,...
• Texas Section 141.036 - Preservation Of Application
  The authority with whom an application for a place on the ballot is required to be filed shall preserve each application filed with the authority...
• Texas Section 141.037 - Form Of Name Certified For Placement On Ballot
  An authority responsible for certifying the names of candidates for placement on the ballot shall certify each name in the form indicated on the candidate's...
• Texas Section 141.038 - Refund Of Filing Fee
  (a) A filing fee paid in connection with a candidate's application for a place on the ballot shall be refunded to the candidate or to...
• Texas Section 141.039 - Official Application Form
  In addition to the other statements and spaces for entering information that appear on an officially prescribed form for an application for a place on...

SUBCHAPTER C PETITION

• Texas Section 141.040 - Notice Of Deadlines
  (a) The authority with whom an application for a place on the ballot under this subchapter must be filed shall post notice of the dates...
• Texas Section 141.061 - Applicability Of Subchapter
  This subchapter applies to each petition filed in connection with a candidate's application for a place on the ballot. Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211,...
• Texas Section 141.062 - Validity Of Petition
  (a) To be valid, a petition must: (1) be timely filed with the appropriate authority; (2) contain valid signatures in the number required by this...
• Texas Section 141.063 - Validity Of Signature
  (a) A signature on a petition is valid if: (1) except as otherwise provided by this code, the signer, at the time of signing, is...
• Texas Section 141.064 - Method Of Acquiring Signature
  A person circulating a petition must: (1) before permitting a person to sign, point out and read to the person each statement pertaining to the...
• Texas Section 141.065 - Affidavit Of Circulator
  (a) Each part of a petition must include an affidavit of the person who circulated it stating that the person: (1) pointed out and read...
• Texas Section 141.066 - Signing More Than One Petition Prohibited
  (a) A person may not sign the petition of more than one candidate for the same office in the same election. (b) The following statement...
• Texas Section 141.067 - Withdrawal Of Signature
  (a) A signature may be withdrawn from a petition as provided by this section. (b) To withdraw a signature, the signer must request that the...
• Texas Section 141.068 - Duty Of Local Authority To Verify Signatures
  (a) On request of the secretary of state, a voter registrar shall verify the voter registration status of a signer of a petition filed with...
• Texas Section 141.069 - Verifying Signatures By Statistical Sample
  If signatures on a petition that is required to contain more than 1,000 signatures are to be verified by the authority with whom the candidate's...
• Texas Section 141.070 - Estimating Gubernatorial Vote For Territory With Changed Boundary
  (a) If, since the most recent gubernatorial general election, a district or precinct from which an officer of the federal, state, or county government is...

Last modified: September 28, 2016