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Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-265
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Validity of a regulation of the Texas Air National Guard that relates to "officers lacking in professional qualifications".
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-404
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Meaning of the term "recording" in Code of Criminal Procedure article 27.18, providing for acceptance of pleas and waivers by closed circuit video teleconferencing.
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0183
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether 49 U.S.C. § 14501(c)(1) preempts chapter 145 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code (RQ-0123-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0184
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether “vessel and outboard motor ownership records” are “customer information” under section 11.030 of the Parks and Wildlife Code (RQ-0132-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0185
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Residency requirements for directors of the Texas Mexican Railway Company (RQ-0133-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0186
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a corporate applicant is ineligible for a manufacturer’s or distributor’s license if a person holding ten percent or less of the corporation’s stock also holds, or an individual related within the first degree by consanguinity to such individual holds, shares in another licensed bingo entity (RQ-0135-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0187
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the exception for continuous employment in the general nepotism statute, Government Code chapter 573, applies to an employment relationship prohibited by section 6.05(f) of the Tax Code (RQ-0138-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0188
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the Tarrant County Hospital District may expend funds to establish a self-insurance program providing liability coverage for JPS Physician Group, Inc. and its health-care-provider employees (RQ-0139-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0189
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Constable’s authority in the county outside of the constable’s own precinct; permissible scope of interlock agreements concerning law enforcement (RQ-0136-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0190
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a county may lease airport land without engaging in competitive bidding (RQ-0137-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0191
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification.
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0192
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Validity of a local ordinance that allows a nonconforming sign to be replaced with a new nonconforming sign (RQ-0129-GA).
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0193
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether a county may pay a justice of the peace amounts over and above the justice's salary for conducting inquests and performing magisterial work (RQ-0141-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0194
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Refund of taxes on travel trailers (RQ-0148-GA).
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0195
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification:Whether an employee of the City of Midlothian may simultaneously serve as a director of the Mountain Peak Water Supply Corporation (RQ-0142-GA).
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0196
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether Transportation Code section 521.126 prohibits a private security guard from running a driver's license through a device that electronically reads driver's license information to enable the Port of Houston Authority police officers to access and use infromation (RQ-0143-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0197
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether an attorney who engages in certain conduct is ineligible to execute bail bonds under Occupations Code section 1704.163, which exempts attorneys from chapter 1704's general licensing requirements in certain limited circumstances (RQ-0145-GA).
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0198
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a hospital district or the private entity that provides indigent care on the district's behalf may require an uninsured applicant for indigent health car, as a prerequisite to receiving the care, to obtain health insurance through the applicant's employer (RQ-0146-GA).
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0199
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a municipality's finance director may simultaneously serve as a temporary municipal judge in the same city (RQ-0144-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0200
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether Government Code section 435.013(a) grants exclusive authority to the Texas Military Facilities Commission to construct, repair, and maintain facilities on its property (RQ-0147-GA).
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0201
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the Texas Military Facilities Commission may make a lump sum payment for accumulated sick leave to an individual whose state employment has been terminated (RQ-0149-GA).
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0202
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether, under section 22.0512 of the Education Code, a school district may bring a disciplinary proceeding against a professional employee of the district for violating the district’s corporal punishment policy, although the employee’s use of force was justified under section 9.62 of the Penal Code (RQ-0150-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0203
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether, in accordance with an order from the board of county court at law judges, a county clerk may redact Social Security numbers from documents available on the county clerk’s website, although the numbers are not redacted from the hard copies of the same documents filed in the clerk’s office (RQ-0154-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0204
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a public school teacher may be awarded compensation under the statutory Advanced Placement Incentive Program (RQ-0151-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0205
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a juvenile board may designate a juvenile probation department as the office authorized to determine whether to defer prosecution of a child referred to juvenile court for certain nonviolent misdemeanor offenses (RQ-0152-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0206
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the Bryan Business Council, Inc. is subject to the Open Meetings Act, chapter 551 of the Government Code (RQ-0155-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0207
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: When a surety is entitled to a refund under Government Code section 41.258, which mandates an officer taking a bail bond to require the surety to pay a cost (RQ-0153-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0208
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs’ 2004 plan for allocating low-income housing tax credits is consistent with Senate Bill 264 (RQ-0161-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0209
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether local election officials had the discretion to accept or reject signatures on local option election petitions filed prior to the effective date of the 2003 amendments to the Alcoholic Beverage Code when the signatures were withdrawn by affidavit, or when the signatures appeared on the back side of a petition signature sheet from which certain statutory elements were absent (RQ-0159-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0210
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether under article XVI, section 65 of the Texas Constitution a justice of the peace announced his candidacy for another office on December 31 by informing a newspaper reporter that he would be a candidate for another office (RQ-0162-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0211
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a county judge whom the State Commission on Judicial Conduct has suspended from office with pay is entitled to his full salary (RQ-0160-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0212
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether abortion facilities that are exempts from licensing under section 245.004 of the Health and Safety Code are subject to regulation by the Texas Department of Health under chapter 245 (RQ-0158-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0213
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Proper procedure, under article III, section 24a of the Texas Constitution, for the Speaker of the House of Representatives to nominate individuals to serve as members of the Texas Ethics Commission (RQ-0194-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0214
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether a peace officer may simultaneously hold a commission from more than one law enforcement agency (RQ-0163-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0215
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether a peace officer may order the removal of a disabled vehicle to a location other than a licensed vehicle storage facility when the driver has not given consent to the removal (RQ-0164-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0216
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Procedure for filling a vacancy in the office of district clerk (RQ-0165-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0217
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether article XI, section 11(A) of the Texas Constitution applies to city officers with two year terms or city police officers, and whether a home-rule city with two year terms may provide in its charter that a mayor or council member who becomes a candidate for another office automatically vacates the current office (RQ-0168-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0218
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether chapter 716 of the Health and Safety Code permits a person authorized to dispose of the remains of a deceased individual to contract directly for cremation services (RQ-0169-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0219
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether section 285.201, Health and Safety Code, requires a hospital district to provide nonemergency public health services to undocumented persons who are otherwise ineligible for those benefits under federal law (RQ-0178-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0220
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether a standard felony judgement from should contain the name and address of a crime victim (RQ-0167-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0221
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether article XVI, section 67(a)(2) of the Texas Constitution would preclude retired City of Houston employees from receiving benefits from both the existing pension system and a separate retirement system that the City is contemplating establishing under section 810.001 of the Government Code (RQ-1072-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0222
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Implementing a tax freeze by a county, city, or town, or junior college district for persons with disabilities or persons sixty-five years of age or older (RQ-0171-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0223
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a condominium development is a subdivision subject to county regulation under Local Government Code chapter 232 (RQ-0177-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0224
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a member of the board of directors of a water improvement district may simultaneously serve as a school district trustee (RQ-1074-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0225
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a school district may offer an early payment discount to its taxpayers if the school district has contracted with a county for tax collection services and the county had discontinued early payment discounts (RQ-0179-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0226
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether, consistently with section 573.041 of the Government Code, a home-rule municipality may appoint a department head who is related to the mayor within the third degree by consanguinity or the second degree by affinity if the city charter authorizes the city manager to “appoint, subject to consultation with the Board of Commissioners, all department heads” (RQ-0180-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0227
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Effect of newly adopted article XVI, section 66 of the Texas Constitution on certain municipal employees who are required to accept medical retirement (RQ-0183-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0228
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a county clerk must accept for recording a paper copy, containing printed images of signatures or a printed image of a notary seal, of an electronic record of a real estate transaction (RQ-0186-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0229
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a county sheriff is authorized to enter into a contract to house federal prisoners or to accept and dispose of federal surplus property (RQ-0181-GA)
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0230
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Determining the applicable deadline for a municipality and a county to complete their certified subdivision regulation agreement as required in section 242.0015, Local Government Code (RQ-0182-GA)
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