(a) On receiving notice of an assessment of costs against a person from the recount coordinator in a recount of an election for which the final canvass is at the state level, each recount supervisor shall prepare a statement of assessable costs incurred in the supervisor’s jurisdiction and deliver the statement to the recount coordinator.
(b) The costs must be listed separately for the precincts included in each document requesting a recount if precincts in the recount supervisor’s jurisdiction were included in more than one document.

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Terms Used In Texas Election Code 215.007

  • Final canvass: means the canvass from which the official result of an election is determined. See Texas Election Code 1.005
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005