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Texas Election Code - ELEC § 211.007. Preservation of Recount Papers

Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) In this section, “recount papers” means the documents requesting a recount, amendments to those documents, records of notices given, records of costs of the recount, and file copies of statements of costs.

(b) A recount coordinator shall retain the recount papers in the coordinator's possession for the longest of the following periods:

(1) the period for preserving the precinct election records;

(2) 60 days after the date the canvass of the recount is completed;

(3) 30 days after the date assessed costs are finally settled;  or

(4) 30 days after the date an amount owed by a person against whom costs are assessed is referred for collection.

(c) If a recount supervisor is also the recount coordinator for a recount, the papers accumulated in the officer's capacity as supervisor shall be retained for the same period as those accumulated in the officer's capacity as coordinator.

(d) A recount supervisor who is not the recount coordinator shall retain the recount papers in the supervisor's possession for the longest of the following periods:

(1) the period for preserving the precinct election records;

(2) 60 days after the date recount costs for payment of claimants are certified;  or

(3) if costs in the supervisor's jurisdiction are assessed against a person, six months after the date a statement of costs incurred in the supervisor's jurisdiction is delivered to the recount coordinator.

(e) Subsections (b), (c), and (d) do not apply to recount papers delivered to the authority to whom an amount owed by a person against whom costs are assessed is referred for collection.

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