Texas Election Code 31.039 – Salary; Staff; Operating Expenses
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(a) The commissioners court shall set the number of deputies and other persons that the county elections administrator may employ.
(b) Repealed by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 1272, Sec. 1, eff. June 18, 2005.
Terms Used In Texas Election Code 31.039
- 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
- Population: means the population shown by the most recent federal decennial census. See Texas Government Code 311.005
(c) The commissioners court may allow the automobile expense that it considers necessary to the administrator and to any of the administrator’s employees in the performance of their official duties.
(d) The commissioners court shall provide the administrator with suitable office space and with the equipment and operating expenses needed for the proper conduct of the office.
(e) The amount initially appropriated by the commissioners court for the operating expenses of the administrator’s office may not be less than the total amount last appropriated to the county clerk and the county tax assessor-collector for the functions assigned to the administrator.
(f) Except as provided by Subsection (g), a person employed on a full-time basis by the administrator’s office is subject to § 31.035 in the same manner as the administrator.
(g) § 31.035(b) does not apply to a person employed on a full-time basis by the administrator’s office in a county with a population of 1.2 million or less that has an election administrator.