Section 144.003 - Application Required(a) Except as otherwise provided by law, to be entitled to a place on the ballot, a candidate must make an application for a place on the ballot. An application, other than an application required to be accompanied by fee, may be filed through e-mail transmission of the completed application in a scanned format to the e-mail address designated by the filing authority in the notice required under Section 141.040.(b) If a law outside this code purports to prescribe the exclusive requirements that a candidate's application must satisfy for the candidate's name to be placed on the ballot, Section 141.031(a)(4)(L) also applies to the application. The other provisions of Section 141.031 do not apply.Tex. Elec. Code § 144.003
Amended by Acts 2021, Texas Acts of the 87th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 711,Sec. 84, eff. 9/1/2021.Amended by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 614, Sec. 31, eff. 9/1/2007.Amended by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 427, Sec. 6, eff. 9/1/1987. Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff. 1/1/1986.