Unless otherwise provided by the charter of the municipality or this chapter, a person serving as a member of the governing body of the municipality is not, because of that service, ineligible to be appointed to fill a vacancy in the office of mayor of the municipality, but the person may not vote on the person's own appointment.
Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 26.047
FILLING VACANCY IN OFFICE OF MAYOR
Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 513 (S.B. 653), Sec. 4, eff
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