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 chapter 312 of the Tax Code precludes a commissioners court from providing an economic development grant to a private company under section 381.004 of the Local Government Code pursuant to which the county makes payments to the company that are the economic equivalent of an abatement of real property taxes (RQ-1068)

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: Constitutionality of section 501.024 of the Health and Safety Code, which requires manufacturers and distributors of hazardous substances to register annually with the Texas Department of Health and pay a fee of $150.00 (RQ-1221)

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 district clerk may , pursuant to court order,decline to file divorce petition of inmates who attempt to satisfy the county residency requirement of section 6.301 of the Family Code based on time served in prison(RQ-0020).

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 Gulf Coast Waste Disposal Authority is a soil and water conservation district for the purpose of article 16,section 40 of the Texas Constitution , and related question: Reconsideration of Attorney General Letter Opinion No:98-124(RQ-0015).

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 notification requirements in 12 U. S. C. 4903(a)(3), (b) will supersede the notification requirements in Texas Insurance Code article 21.50, section 1B(a) when the federal law becomes effective in July 1999 (RQ-1185)

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: Authority of charitable organization to conduct raffle that offers prize valued in excess of $50,000, and related questions (RQ-0013)

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 provisions of the Texas Controlled Substances Act, TEX. HEALTH & SAFETY CODE ANN. ch 481 (Vernon 1992 & Supp. 1999), that authorize warrant-less administrative services violate article I, section 9 of the Texas Constitution (RQ-1198)

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 a nonprofit water supply corporation that is not exempt from ad valorem taxation is subject to the Open Meetings Act (RQ-1071)

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; Authority of a home-rule city to increases the statutory penatly for failure to restrict access to aerosol paint (RQ-1074)

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 district court is authorized to require a defendant to post a warning sign at his residence stating that he is a convicted sex offender as a condition of community supervision (RQ-908)

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 a municipality that displaces private solid waste haulers after annexing an area violates the haulers' constitutional rights (ID# 39336)

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 a state university may prohibit its employees from engaging in outside employment (ID# 39125)

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 municipality which has not adopted the Fire Fighter and Police Officer Civil Service Act is nevertheless subject to Local Government Code section 141.033, which requires certain municipalities to establish a position classification system for fire and police employees, and a related question (ID# 36655)

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 a commissioners court may provide for its members gasoline and repairs to their personal vehicles in addition to a monthly travel allowance (ID# 36631)

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 board of directors of the Red Creek Municipal Utility District must call a hearing on the exclusion of the of land owners' petitions given that the board does not intend to order a district tax bond election and has already heald hearings on other property owners' petitions (ID# 37961)

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 a hospital district may charge retrieval and copying fees for health care information in accordance with the new section 241.154(b) of the Health and Safety Code when those fees exceed the charges established by the General Services Commission pursuant to section 552.262 of the Government Code (ID# 38086, formerly ID# 35941)

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, under the Open Records Act, Gov't Code ch. 522, a governmental body that recieved a request prior to September 1, 1995, may charge the requestor for access to information compromised of pages that are legal size or smaller and related question (ID# 29925)

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 a presiding administrative district judge may appoint a visiting judge prior to preclearance by the United States Department of Justice (ID# 35935)

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 requirement in the Alcoholic Beverage Code that an applicant for a liquor license or permit have been a resident of Texas for at least one year before submitting the application violates the United States Consitution (RQ-747)

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 a municipal police officer may simultaneously hold the position of city council member in a different city (ID# 33904)

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 article III, section 18 of the Texas Constitution prohibits the granting of an option to purchase and subsequent sale of a tract of land by a corporation, the stock of which is owned by the spouse of a legislator, to an optionee/purchaser who intends to submit a bid to the state to construct improvements on the tract and lease them to the state (ID# 33425)

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 section 4A(q) of the Development Act of 1979, V.T.C.S. art. 5190.6, would violate article I, section 16 of the Texas Constitution if applied retroactively (RQ-670)

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 there is a de minimis exception to the requirement that certain companies that enter into a "building or construction contract" under Labor Code section 406.096 with the state or a political subdivision of the state must provide workers' compensation insurance for their employees, and related questions (RQ-596)

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: Authority of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to apply for, receive, and expend federal funds, and related questions (RQ-664)