Sec. 143.006.  AUTHORITY WITH WHOM APPLICATION FILED.  (a)  Except as provided by Subsections (b) and (c), an application for a place on the ballot must be filed with the city secretary.
(b)  An authority other than the city secretary may be designated to receive applications by a home-rule city charter or ordinance adopted under charter authorization.
(c)  An application for a place on the ballot for the first election of officers following the incorporation of a city must be filed with the authority designated by law.
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.