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2025 Texas Statutes
Election Code
Title 2 - Voter Qualifications and Registration
Chapter 16 - Cancellation of Registration
Subchapter A. Official Notice to Registrar
Section 16.002. Mental Incapacity

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TX Elec COde § 16.002 (2025)
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Sec. 16.002. MENTAL INCAPACITY. (a) Each month the clerk of each court having proper jurisdiction to adjudge a person mentally incapacitated shall prepare an abstract of each final judgment of a court served by the clerk, occurring in the month:

(1) adjudging a person 18 years of age or older who is a resident of the state to be:

(A) totally mentally incapacitated; or

(B) partially mentally incapacitated without the right to vote;

(2) adjudging the mental capacity of a person 18 years of age or older who is a resident of this state to be completely restored; or

(3) modifying the guardianship of a person 18 years of age or older to include the right to vote.

(b) The clerk shall file each abstract with the voter registrar of the person's county of residence not later than the 10th day of the month following the month in which the abstract is prepared.

Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.

Amended by:

Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 614 (H.B. 417), Sec. 25, eff. September 1, 2007.

Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 614 (H.B. 417), Sec. 26, eff. September 1, 2007.

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