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Record Manager

Open Records

The Texas Open Records Act provides that information in the possession of a governmental body is generally available to the public.  Everyone has the fundamental right to know what his or her elected representatives and governmental bodies are doing. A Request for Public Information can be submitted to the City of Paris in several ways.  The request must include name, address, daytime telephone number of the requester and the documents or items requested.  Forms for a request can be obtained in the City Clerk's Office or via the link below:

Public Information Form 

There will be a fee for furnishing the requested information. 
Requests can be made at 150 SE 1^st Street, the City Clerk’s Office.

Municipal Code

The City of Paris’s Code of Ordinances is now available online.  Anyone with Internet access can easily view local laws at:  Municipal Code Corporation www.municode.com. Hard copies of the City’s Code of Ordinances are available for review in the City Clerk's Office at  - 150 1^st Street S. E., or at the Paris Public Library - 326 S. Main Street.

Election
Information

The City Clerk serves as the election administrator for all elections called by the City Council.  This office provides voting district information, applications for ballots by mail, and early voting location. 

Filing information and applications for candidates are also available in this department. The City of Paris is a Seven Member District and Council Members are elected from District No. 1, 2, 3, & 6 in even number years, and for District No. 4, 5, & 7 in odd number years. 

The members of the City Council shall serve not more than two – two-year terms in succession.

To be eligible to be a candidate for, or elected or appointed to, a public elective office in this state, a person must:

      be a United States citizen;

      be 21 years of age or older on the first day of the term to be filled at the election

      or on the date of appointment as applicable;

      have not been determined mentally incompetent by a final judgment of a court;

      have not been finally convicted of a felony from which the person has not been
      pardoned or otherwise released from the resulting disabilities;

      have resided continuously in the state for 12 months and in the territory from
      which the office is elected for six months immediately preceding the following date:

       (A)  for a candidate whose name is to appear on a general primary election ballot,
              the date of the regular filing deadline for a candidate's application for a place
              on the ballot;
 

       (B)  for an independent candidate, the date of the regular filing deadline for a
              candidate's application for a place on the ballot;
 

       (C)  for a write-in candidate, the date of the election at which the candidate's name
               is written in;