Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0173 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0173

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 it is penal offense for a city that operates a senior citizens' community center that is exempt from licensing under the Bingo Enabling Act to possess gambling paraphenalia and whether such gambling paraphenalia is subject to state sales tax (RQ-0125-GA)
Date: April 1, 2004
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-64 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-64

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 Board of Architecture Examiners’ authority under chapter 53 of the Occupations Code to require an applicant for registration or a registrant to report criminal history information (RQ-0627-JC)
Date: April 28, 2003
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-65 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-65

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 Water Advisory Council is subject to the requirements of the Public Information Act, chapter 552 of the Government Code (RQ-0632-JC)
Date: April 28, 2003
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-66 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-66

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 Health and Safety Code, section 572.0025(f)(1) requirement that a physician conduct an "in-person examination" of a prospective patient of an inpatient mental health facility means that only a physician may conduct the examination (RQ-0003-GA)
Date: April 28, 2003
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-62 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-62

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 pay attorneys’ fees to non-prevailing part in litigation (RQ-0002-GA)
Date: April 23, 2003
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-63 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-63

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 Legislature is required to undertake congressional redistricting for the electoral period 2003-2010 (RQ-0017-GA)
Date: April 23, 2003
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-61 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-61

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 certain unauthorized fees collected by counties and municipalities that cannot be returned to the persons who paid the fees constitute taxes that must be remitted to the Comptroller under chapter 111 of the Tax Code or abandoned property governed by the Property Code (RQ-0613-JC)
Date: April 17, 2003
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-60 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-60

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: Relative authority of the State Board of Education and the Commissioner of Education with regard to the adoption of academic excellence evaluators and the evaluation of school districts under chapter 39 of the Education Code (RQ-0607-JC)
Date: April 15, 2003
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-59 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-59

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 disposition of funds generated by the county jail inmate telephone contract (RQ-0629-JC)
Date: April 10, 2003
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-495 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-495

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: Whether the Texas State Office of Administrative Hearings may order the Texas Department of Human Services to pay a licensee's attorney's fees after the SOAH dismissed an administrative action brought to revoke a license (RQ-0463-JC)
Date: April 29, 2002
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-496 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-496

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: Method of selection of the justice of the peace member of the El Paso County Bail Bond Board (RQ-0465-JC)
Date: April 29, 2002
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-497 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-497

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: Whether a peace officer is required to attend continuing courses regarding enforcement of traffic laws and the use of radar equipment (RQ-0471-JC)
Date: April 29, 2002
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-493 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-493

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: Applicability of new requirements for portable facilities and concrete crushers imposed by amendments to the Texas Clean Air Act.
Date: April 23, 2002
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-494 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-494

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: Whether the Gun Barrel City Economic Development Corporation may use Development Corporation Act of 1979, section 4B sales and use taxes to fund a project that does not promote business development.
Date: April 23, 2002
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-492 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-492

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: Whether, with respect to a contract valued at $25,000 or more in the aggregate for a twelve-month period, a school district may participate in a registered political subdivision corporation created under section 304.001 of the Local Government Code, and related questions.
Date: April 22, 2002
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-488 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-488

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; Whether the City of Lake Jackson's sales and use tax election proposition allows expenditure of the taxes for an access road to service underdeveloped commercially zoned property (RQ-0454-JC)
Date: April 15, 2002
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-489 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-489

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; Whether article III, section 50 of the Texas Constitution prohibits the Texas Commission for the Blind from contracting with the United States government to operate various vending facilities on federal property under the Federal Randolph-Sheppard Act, 20 U.S.C. ch. 6A, if the contract "create[s] financial exposure to the State for a multi-million dollar service agreement with...Federal Departments" (RQ-0455-JC)
Date: April 15, 2002
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-490 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-490

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; Whether a member of a school district board of trustees may simultaneously hold the office of county treasurer (RQ--458-JC)
Date: April 15, 2002
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-491 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-491

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 school district policy regarding corporal punishment and physical restraint of students.
Date: April 15, 2002
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-372 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-372

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: Whether certain types of property at new facilities qualify for a tax exemption as pollution-control property under section 11.31 of the Tax Code (RQ-330-JC)
Date: April 27, 2001
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-371 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-371

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: Whether a school district trustee may serve as a volunteer teacher in the same district (RQ-0318-JC)
Date: April 25, 2001
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-370 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-370

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: Whether a county may pay accrued vacation or compensatory time to two sheriff’s deputies if, when the time accrued, the county did not permit such payments, and related question (RQ-0324-JC)
Date: April 17, 2001
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-367 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-367

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: Whether a county may charge an applicant for a plat revision the costs of issuing notice of the proposed revision (RQ-0309-JC)
Date: April 13, 2001
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-368 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-368

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: Whether a municipality may provide labor and equipment to construct utilities on public easements and rights-of-way to serve a private subdivision (RQ-0313-JC)
Date: April 13, 2001
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History