Tex. Election Code Section 251.007
Timeliness of Action by Mail

When this title requires a notice, report, or other document or paper to be delivered, submitted, or filed within a specified period or before a specified deadline, a delivery, submission, or filing by first-class United States mail or common or contract carrier is timely, except as otherwise provided by this title, if:

(1)

it is properly addressed with postage or handling charges prepaid; and

(2)

it bears a post office cancellation mark or a receipt mark of a common or contract carrier indicating a time within the period or before the deadline, or if the person required to take the action furnishes satisfactory proof that it was deposited in the mail or with a common or contract carrier within the period or before the deadline.
Amended by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 899, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.

Source: Section 251.007 — Timeliness of Action by Mail, https://statutes.­capitol.­texas.­gov/Docs/EL/htm/EL.­251.­htm#251.­007 (accessed May 26, 2025).

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