Texas Constitution talk:Article III, Section 56: Difference between revisions

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 EC 31.042. As soon as practicable after the effective date of the creation of the position of county elections administrator, the officer formerly serving as the voter registrar shall transfer . . . .
-Construe entire statute: appears change to administrator one way? in other words, no authority to move duties back to county clerk/tax assessor-collector. only prospective? Then determine effect of disputed 2023 amendment.
+EC Sec. 31.048(a) The commissioners court by written order may abolish the position of county elections administrator at any time.
+Construe entire statute: change to administrator is not one way. in other words, cc can move duties back to county clerk/tax assessor-collector. only prospective? Then determine effect of disputed 2023 amendment.
 Law being made theoretically, not for a day, but for all time, a statute applicable to cities of certain population is a general law when it establishes a rule for the prospective government or regulation of all such cities as may, in the course of time, reach the prescribed population; but where the statute obviously acts only on a present state of facts in such cities and cannot by possibility apply to other cities that may attain, in future, such population, it is local, special and void.