Texas Statutes (Last Updated: January 4, 2014) |
ELECTION CODE |
Title 3. ELECTION OFFICERS AND OBSERVERS |
Chapter 32. ELECTION JUDGES AND CLERKS |
Subchapter A. APPOINTMENT OF ELECTION JUDGES |
Sec. 32.006. JUDGES FOR PRIMARY ELECTIONS
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(a) The county chair of a political party holding a primary election shall appoint for each primary, with the approval of the county executive committee, the judges for each precinct in which the election will be held in the county.
(b) If a vacancy in the positions of both the presiding judge and the alternate judge arises after the appointments are approved and the county executive committee is not scheduled to meet before the election for which the appointments are made, the county chair may fill the vacancies without the approval of the committee.
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 864, Sec. 22, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.