{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-election-code-251.007","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Election Code § 251.007","heading":"TIMELINESS OF ACTION BY MAIL.","body":"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:\n(1) it is properly addressed with postage or handling charges prepaid; and\n(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.\nAmended by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 899, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.","path":["ELECTION CODE","TITLE 15. REGULATING POLITICAL FUNDS AND CAMPAIGNS","CHAPTER 251. GENERAL PROVISIONS","SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/EL/htm/EL.251.htm#251.007","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:06Z","sha256":"78d60ce70250351c8a0c77b3384b3bb16e266c46e027637510b0c692debe5032","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-election-code-251.006","next":"us-tx/tex.-election-code-251.008"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}