Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-166 Page: 2 of 7
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Mr. Ron Patterson - Page 2 (JM-166)
incorporated cities and towns and the school
districts that participate in the district and of
the county. A governing body may cast all its
votes for one candidate or distribute them among
candidates for any number of directorships.
(d) The voting entitlement of a taxing unit
that is entitled to vote for directors is
determined by dividing the total dollar amount of
property taxes imposed in the district by the
taxing unit for the preceding tax year by the sum
of the total dollar amount of property taxes
imposed in the district for that year by each
taxing unit that is entitled to vote, by
multiplying the quotient by 1,000, and by rounding
the product to the nearest whole number. That
number is multiplied by the number of
directorships to be filled. A taxing unit
participating in two or more districts is entitled
to vote in each district in which it participates,
but only the taxes imposed in a district are used
to calculate voting entitlement in that district.
(e) The county clerk shall calculate the
number of votes to which each taxing unit is
entitled and shall deliver written notice to the
presiding officer of the governing body of each
unit of its voting entitlement before October 1 of
each odd-numbered year.
(f) Each taxing unit that is entitled to vote
may nominate by resolution adopted by its
governing body one candidate for each position to
be filled on the board of directors. The
presiding officer of the governing body of the
unit shall submit the names of the unit's nominees
to the county clerk before October 15. Before
October 30, the county clerk shall prepare a
ballot, listing the candidates alphabetically
according to the first letter in each candidate's
surname, and shall deliver a copy of the ballot to
the presiding officer of the governing body of
each taxing unit that is entitled to vote.
(g) The governing body of each taxing unit
entitled to vote shall determine its vote by
resolution and submit it to the county clerk
before November 15. The county clerk shall count
the votes, declare the five candidates who receivethe largest cumulative vote totals elected, and
submit the results before December 1 to thep. 730
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Texas. Attorney-General's Office. Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-166, text, June 13, 1984; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth272606/m1/2/?q=%221984~%22: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.