Petitions.
Houston City Charter, art. IX, § 3
in effectSection 3. - Petitions.
The petitions provided for in this Act need not be on paper, and may be printed or written, but the signatures thereto must be the autograph signatures of the persons whose names purport to be signed. To each signature the house address of the signer must be added, and the signature must be made acknowledged or proved before an officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments and proof of deeds. The certificate of such officer, under his official seal, that a signature was so made and acknowledged or proved shall be sufficient proof of the genuineness of the signature for the purposes of this Act. The signing of another's name, or of a false or fictitious name, to a petition, or the signing of a certificate falsely stating either that a signature was made in presence of the officer or acknowledged or proved before him, shall be punishable as a forgery. (Act of 1905)
Source: City of Houston, Code of Ordinances and City Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/tx/houston/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=CH_ARTIXGEPR_S3PEFetched: 10/26/2026