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Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0980 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0980

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 "project duration ordinance" adopted by the City of Austin contravenes section 245.005 of the Local Government Code (RQ-1070-GA).
Date: December 10, 2012
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-1041 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-1041

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 provide Internetbased local and long-distance telephone service to inmates in county jails (RQ-1145-GA).
Date: February 10, 2014
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0116 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0116

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, Ken Paxton, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a county comm1ss10ners court has authority to expend county funds on holiday decorations and county literacy programs (RQ-0105-KP).
Date: October 10, 2016
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0085 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0085

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, Ken Paxton, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the tax on crude oil petroleum produced in this State remains in effect in light of the Eighty-fourth Legislature's passage of Senate Bill 757 and House Bill 7 (RQ-0072-KP).
Date: May 10, 2016
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-1008 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-1008

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 Medical Board may allow its investigators who hold a concealed handgun license to carry a concealed handgun while on duty without subjecting the Board to liability (RQ-11 04-GA).
Date: June 10, 2013
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0030 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0030

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, Ken Paxton, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a county attorney with criminal jurisdiction may, pursuant to section 41.005, Government Code, retain a commission on bond forfeiture collection (RQ-0010-KP).
Date: August 10, 2015
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0086 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0086

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, Ken Paxton, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: The effect of section 113.054 of the Natural Resources Code on a political subdivision's authority to adopt ordinances relating to the liquefied petroleum gas industry (RQ-0073-KP).
Date: May 10, 2016
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-1086 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-1086

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: Authority of an entity to require and maintain a photocopy of the credentials of a person covered by section 552.1175 of the Government Code (RQ-1199-GA).
Date: November 10, 2014
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-1085 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-1085

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: Authority of the Dallas County Juvenile Board to hire an attorney as in-house counsel (RQ-1198-GA).
Date: November 10, 2014
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0981 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0981

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: Authority of a county to form a transportation reinvestment zone, collect an ad valorem tax increment, and pledge and assign all or part of the increment to secure bonds to pay the cost of a transportation project (RQ-1 071-GA).
Date: December 10, 2012
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0029 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0029

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, Ken Paxton, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of a county hospital district to create a charitable organization under section 281.0565 of the Health and Safety Code and related governance questions (RQ-0008-KP).
Date: August 10, 2015
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0032 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0032

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, Ken Paxton, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether an independent school district police chief may simultaneously serve as a constable in the precinct in which the school district is located (RQ-0012-KP).
Date: August 10, 2015
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0031 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0031

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, Ken Paxton, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Duty of a county to provide legal representation for a former county employee under subsections 157.901(a) and (b) of the Local Government Code (RQ-0011-KP).
Date: August 10, 2015
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-1042 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-1042

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: Calculating the minimum salary of a county court at law judge under Government Code section 25.0005 (RQ-1146-GA).
Date: February 10, 2014
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Open Records Decision: Number 678 (ORQ-62) (open access)

Texas Attorney General Open Records Decision: Number 678 (ORQ-62)

Document issued by the Open Records Division at 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 confidentiality afforded to certain identifying information by section 552.1175 of the Government Code endures when a county voter registrar transfers the information to the Secretary of State and other authorized recipients.
Date: March 10, 2003
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-178 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-178

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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether a junior college may borrow money to rehabilitate a historic building under section 20.45 of the Education Code (RQ-79)
Date: November 10, 1992
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-179 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-179

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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a defendant sentenced under Penal Code section 12.422 is entitled to credit for the time the defendant is confined in a substance abuse treatment facility toward the satisfaction of the term of the confinement in the institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (RQ-406)
Date: November 10, 1992
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-187 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-187

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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether property seized by the state pursuant to the Code of Criminal Procedure, chapter 59, is exempt from property taxes (RQ-233)
Date: December 10, 1992
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-188 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-188

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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: tax exemptions for public property leased to private entities.
Date: December 10, 1992
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-404 (open access)

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.
Date: August 10, 2001
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: LO97-017 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: LO97-017

Letter opinion 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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the governing body of a county hospital district established under Health and Safety Code chapter 281 may lease a hospital facility without obtaining the approval of the county commissioners court and related questions.
Date: March 10, 1997
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: LO97-031 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: LO97-031

Letter opinion 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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification;Whether loading and unloading contracts for the ports of Beaumont and Port Arthur must be competitively bid (ID# 393385).
Date: April 10, 1997
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0199 (open access)

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)
Date: June 10, 2004
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0200 (open access)

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).
Date: June 10, 2004
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History