A change in a boundary of a territorial unit of a political subdivision other than a county from which an office of the political subdivision is elected is not effective for an election unless the date of the order or other action adopting the boundary change is more than three months before election day.
Tex. Elec. Code § 276.006
CHANGING ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES OF CERTAIN POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case in Re Marcelino Rodriguez, Donna Jean Forgas, and Linda Marie Wiltz Gilmore (2013)
Most recently applied in in Re Marcelino Rodriguez, Donna Jean Forgas, and Linda Marie Wiltz Gilmore (August 2013)
Added by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 472, Sec. 59, eff
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