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Texas Election Code § 233.010

Effect of Contest on Implementation of Adopted Measure

Contest on Measure

(a) The filing of an election contest does not suspend implementation of a contested measure that is shown by the officially determined result to have been adopted, except that in the application of equitable principles, the court in which an election contest is filed may suspend implementation of the contested measure pending outcome of the contest.

(b) Another law that provides that implementation may or may not be suspended supersedes this section.

Official text of the Texas Election Code as published by the Texas Legislative Council.

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Legislative history

Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.