Sec. 8817.053. METHOD OF ELECTING DIRECTORS: JUSTICE OF THE PEACE PRECINCTS. (a) The directors of the district shall be elected according to the precinct method as provided by this section.

(b) One director shall be elected by the voters of the entire district, and one director shall be elected from each justice of the peace precinct by the voters of that precinct.

(c) Except as provided by Subsection (e), to be eligible to be a candidate for or to serve as director at large, a person must be a registered voter in the district. To be a candidate for or to serve as director from a justice of the peace precinct, a person must be a registered voter of that precinct.

(d) A person shall indicate on the application for a place on the ballot:

(1) the precinct that the person seeks to represent; or

(2) that the person seeks to represent the district at large.

(e) When the boundaries of the justice of the peace precincts are redrawn after each federal decennial census to reflect population changes, a director in office on the effective date of the change, or a director elected or appointed before the effective date of the change whose term of office begins on or after the effective date of the change, shall serve in the precinct to which elected or appointed even though the change in boundaries places the person's residence outside the precinct for which the person was elected or appointed.

Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 590 (S.B. 2029), Sec. 1, eff. June 16, 2007.