Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-580 Page: 2 of 5
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Hon. Ed Keys, page 2 (C-580)
in its order a future date, not .later than
the first day of January following the next
general election, on which the changes shall
become effective. If an election for any
precinct office is held before the effective
date of the order, the office shall be filled
at the election by the voters of the precinct
as it will exist on the effective date of the
change in boundaries. A person who has re-
sided within the territory embraced in the
new boundaries for the, length of time re-
quired to be eligible to hold the office
shall not be rendered ineligible by virtue
of the precinct's not having been in exist-
ence for that length of time."
Article 1.05 of Vernon's Texas Election Code, as
amended in 1963, provides in part as follows:
"No person shall be eligible to be a
candidate for, or to be elected or appointed
to, any public office in this state unless
he shall be eligible to hold such office under
the Constitution and laws of this state, and
unless he is a citizen of the United States
and shall have resided in this state for a
period of twelve months next preceding the
date of any primary, general or special
election at which he offers- himself as a
candidate or next preceding the date of his
appointment, as the case may be, and for any
office which is less than state-wide, shall
have resided for six months next preceding
such election in the district, county, pre-
cinct, municipality or other political sub-
division for which the office is to be filled;
provided, however, that the foregoing residence
requirements shall not apply to any office for
which the Constitution or statutes of the
United States or of this state prescribe residence
qualifications in conflict herewith, and in case
of conflict the provisions of such other laws
shall control. * * *"
In Brown v. Meeks, 96 S.W.2d 839 (Tex.Civ.App. 1936,
error dism.), the Commissioners Court of Bexar County, prior
to the primary election in 1936, had entered an order changing-2802-
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Texas. Attorney-General's Office. Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-580, text, January 12, 1966; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth268999/m1/2/: accessed May 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.