Article XVI, Section 13 of the Texas Constitution
Added September 13, 2003:
For an office for which this constitution requires an election, the legislature may provide by general law for a person to take the office without an election if the person is the only candidate to qualify in an election to be held for that office.
Editor Comments
The original Article XVI, Section 13 was repealed August 5, 1969.
The former section, adopted in 1876 and never amended, mandated the enactment of laws governing arbitration.
Categorized as "deadwood," it and numerous other sections were repealed by the same ballot proposition.
Note that the current Article XVI, Section 13 was added at the same amendment election as Article XVI, Section 13A.
Recent Decisions
None.
Historic Decisions
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Library Resources
- Vernon's Annotated Constitution of the State of Texas (multi-volume and up-to-date resource available at all law and many municipal libraries)
- The Texas State Constitution: A Reference Guide (one-volume resource available at most law and some municipal libraries)
- The Constitution of the State of Texas: An Annotated and Comparative Analysis (two-volume resource available at most law and some municipal libraries)
Online Resources
- Constitution of the State of Texas (1876) (resource published online and maintained by the University of Texas School of Law)
- Amendments to the Texas Constitution Since 1876 (resource published online and regularly updated by the Legislative Council)
- Reports Analyzing Proposed Amendments (resource published online and regularly updated by the Legislative Reference Library)