Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0761 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0761

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 magistrate to award ownership or title of a motor vehicle under chapter 47, Code of Criminal Procedure, or other law (RQ-0811-GA)
Date: March 15, 2010
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0762 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0762

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 Type A general-law municipality may impose and enforce a nonpoint source pollution ordinance in its extraterritorial jurisdiction pursuant to section 26.177 of the Water Code (RQ-0822-GA)
Date: March 15, 2010
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0763 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0763

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 is required to recieve a petition sugned by twenty percent of its qualified voters before calling an election to withdraw from a regional transportation authority (RQ-0824-GA)
Date: March 22, 2010
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0764 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0764

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 Governor is required to appoint a judge to the newly created 431st District Court in Denton County (RQ-0826-GA)
Date: March 22, 2010
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0765 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0765

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; Concerning a possible defense to prosecution under section 43.24, Penal Code (RQ-0825-GA)
Date: March 26, 2010
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0848 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0848

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 State Board of Education may contract to pay attorney fees out of the corpus of the Permanent School Fun without an appropriation specifically for that purpose (RQ-0920-GA)
Date: March 14, 2011
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0849 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0849

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 general manager of a water district to serve as city manager of a home-rule city (RQ-0913-GA)
Date: March 28, 2011
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0850 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0850

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 Eagle Pass Independent School District is subject yo a municipal ordinance that requires the District to expend funds for certain kinds of infrastructure (RQ-0923-GA)
Date: March 30, 2011
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0851 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0851

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: Restrictions on a municipality’s use of certain reserve funds originally generated from a hotel occupancy tax (RQ-0924-GA)
Date: March 30, 2011
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0852 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0852

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: Meaning of the term “enacted revenue measures” for purposes of section 17.10 of article IX of the 2010-2011 General Appropriations Act, which relates to the funding of rail relocation and improvement (RQ-0925-GA)
Date: March 30, 2011
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0915 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0915

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 allow the public to copy records with a sheet-feed scanner (RQ-0916-GA)
Date: March 22, 2012
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0916 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0916

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 treasurer, county auditor, or a county Human Resources officer is responsible for the performance of various duties involving disbursement and endorsement (RQ-998-GA)
Date: March 22, 2012
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0918 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0918

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: Proration of homestead property tax exemption under section 11.131 of the Tax Code for a fully disabled veteran who died during 2011; and application of that exemption to the surviving spouse of a veteran who dies during 2011 (RQ-1005-GA)
Date: March 13, 2012
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0189 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-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, Ken Paxton, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether an elected constable and deputy constables may simultaneously serve under the sheriff, specifically to perform tasks related to the duties of a weightenforcement officer under Transportation Code chapter 621 (RQ-0187-KP).
Date: March 21, 2018
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0073 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0073

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: Applicability of expunction orders under article 45.0541 of the Code of Criminal Procedure to records in the possession of a juvenile probation department as a result of a referral for delinquent conduct as defined by subsection 51.03(a)(2) of the Family Code (RQ-0057-KP).
Date: March 28, 2016
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0136 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0136

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 State Long-Term Care Ombudsman may register a position and testify for or against legislation pending before the Texas Legislature (RQ-0130-KP).
Date: March 13, 2017
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0992 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0992

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 certain persons to direct the disposition of blood seized during the investigation of an intoxication-related offense (RQ-1082-GA).
Date: March 12, 2013
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0075 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0075

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 that has accepted a public dedication of a right-of-way is obligated to maintain the sidewalks in that right-of-way (RQ-0061-KP).
Date: March 28, 2016
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0007 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0007

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 commissioners court must compensate a justice of the peace who retires prior to the end of his term (RQ-1219-GA).
Date: March 9, 2015
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-1043 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-1043

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 city council may authorize its city attorney to seek injunctive relief to prohibit a recall election of city council members .(RQ-1147).
Date: March 3, 2014
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0996 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0996

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 board of trustees may appoint a single-member district trustee to an at-large position as the district transitions to a new election scheme (RQ-1091-GA).
Date: March 19, 2013
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0011 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0011

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 public school district may expend funds for the management of county school lands to determine if a lessee of a mineral estate is fulfilling its duty to explore and develop the mineral estate (RQ-1225-GA).
Date: March 31, 2015
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-1047 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-1047

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 Education Code section 11.301 authorizes the citizens of Harris County to use repealed chapter 18 of the Education Code to increase the county equalization tax (RQ-1152-GA).
Date: March 24, 2014
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0994 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0994

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 sheriff must submit an office policy manual to the county commissioners court for approval (RQ-1087-GA).
Date: March 15, 2013
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History