Tex. Election Code Section 273.042
Order by District Judge

On request of a grand jury for an examination of voted ballots, a district judge may order the custodian of the ballots and the custodian of the keys to the ballot boxes to deliver the ballot boxes and the keys to the grand jury.
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1078, Sec. 22, eff. Sept. 1, 1997; Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1315, Sec. 56, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.

Source: Section 273.042 — Order by District Judge, https://statutes.­capitol.­texas.­gov/Docs/EL/htm/EL.­273.­htm#273.­042 (accessed May 26, 2025).

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