title: Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1252 creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office. creator: Mattox, Jim date: 1990-11-30 language: English description: 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, Jim Mattox, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether section 2.13 of the Mental Health and Retardation Act authorizes the Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation to purchase and/or lease real and personal property for the purpose of providing community-based services without following the procedures of the State Purchasing and General Services Act (RQ-2049) subject: Attorneys general's opinions -- Texas. subject: Laws -- Texas. subject: Government and Law - Elected Officials - Attorneys General subject: legal interpretations subject: legal questions subject: requests subject: written statements subject: Jones, Dennis R. coverage: United States - Texas coverage: Into Modern Times, 1939-Present coverage: 1990 type: Text format: 5 p. format: Text identifier: local-cont-no: JM-1252 identifier: local-cont-no: JM1252 identifier: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth273690/ identifier: ark: ark:/67531/metapth273690