Cottonwood Creek and Fish Creek Watersheds Flood Protection Plan (open access)

Cottonwood Creek and Fish Creek Watersheds Flood Protection Plan

Report on a flood protection plan for the Cottonwood Creek and Fish Creek Watersheds in the City of Arlington, Texas.
Date: May 31, 2012
Creator: Espey Consultants, Inc.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Habitat Requirements of the Golden Orb (Quadrula aurea): Final Report (open access)

Habitat Requirements of the Golden Orb (Quadrula aurea): Final Report

Final report of a project to determine habitat parameters influencing distributions of Golden Orb (Q.aurea) mussels in the Guadalupe-San Antonio river basin: "The objectives of this study can be summarized by the following task: 1) Identify four samples with sufficient populations of Q.aurea to evaluate habitat parameters. 2) Evaluate the distribution of Q.aurea at selected sample sites in relation to habitat parameters and monitor flow conditions at these locations. 3) Calculate the shear stress ratio (RSS) for multiple flow conditions and the relationship with mussel density at selected sites. 4) Compile and summarize life history information for Q.aurea and related species" (p. 8).
Date: May 31, 2012
Creator: Hammontree, Sarah E.; Mabe, J. A. & Kennedy, J. H.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0942 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0942

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 Type A general-law municipality with a population of less than 900,000 to enact an ordinance setting either a 300-foot "Alcohol-Free School Zone" or a 1,000-foot zone around a school in which the sale of of alcoholic beverages for off-premises consumption would be prohibited (RQ-1028-GA)
Date: May 30, 2012
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0943 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0943

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, in determining the market value of a residence homestead, a chief appraiser is required to consider the value of previously sold foreclosed residential property (RQ-1029-GA)
Date: May 30, 2012
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0944 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0944

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 mental health professional is required by chapter 261, Family Code, to report abuse or neglect that occurred during the childhood of a now-adult patient (RQ-1030-GA)
Date: May 30, 2012
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0945 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0945

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 Angleton-Danbury Hospital District is authorized to sell a hospital facility to a third party and lease care for the District's needy residents (RQ-1033-GA)
Date: May 30, 2012
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Affidavit for Direct Campaign Expenditure Report: Electronic Filing Exemption - Entity (open access)

Affidavit for Direct Campaign Expenditure Report: Electronic Filing Exemption - Entity

Blank form to file an affidavit for an entity filing exemptions related to campaign expenditures.
Date: May 29, 2012
Creator: Texas Ethics Commission
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Affidavit for Direct Campaign Expenditure Report: Electronic Filing Exemption - Individual (open access)

Affidavit for Direct Campaign Expenditure Report: Electronic Filing Exemption - Individual

Blank form to file an affidavit for an individual filing exemptions related to campaign expenditures.
Date: May 29, 2012
Creator: Texas Ethics Commission
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0937 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0937

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 treasurer with regard to the reconciliation of accounts of elected officials (RQ-1018-GA)
Date: May 29, 2012
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0938 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0938

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 commissioners court may permit a constable one one precinct to provide the services authorized by section 351.061, Local Government Code, in a different precinct (RQ-1020-GA)
Date: May 29, 2012
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0939 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0939

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 commissioners court may employ a county elections administrator to perform the duties of a 9-1-1 addressing agent and to assist in the preparation of redistricting maps (RQ-1023-GA)
Date: May 29, 2012
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0940 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0940

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 constable with regard to payment of outstanding warrants issued by a justice court (RQ-1024-GA)
Date: May 29, 2012
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0941 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0941

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, under section 775.034, Health and Safety Code, a county commisioners court may meet to vote on the appointment of a member of the governing board of an emergency services district prior to January 1 of the year in which the appointment takes effect (RQ-1027-GA)
Date: May 29, 2012
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas P.R.I.D.E Crisis Counseling Program, Number 2, May 29, 2012 (open access)

Texas P.R.I.D.E Crisis Counseling Program, Number 2, May 29, 2012

This document provides information on the Texas P.R.I.D.E Crisis Counseling Program.
Date: May 29, 2012
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 37, Number 21, Pages 3761-3908, May 25, 2012 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 37, Number 21, Pages 3761-3908, May 25, 2012

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: May 25, 2012
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0935 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0935

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; Autority of a county, under section 35.019, Water Code, to enact water availability requirements applicable to that part of a county outside of a priority groundwater management area, and related questions (RQ-1003-GA)
Date: May 21, 2012
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0936 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0936

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 non-attorneys may represent parties at special education due process hearings conducted by the Texas Education Agency (RQ-1021-GA)
Date: May 21, 2012
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0931 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0931

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 Comptroller of Public Accounts to commit the expenditure of funds from the Major Events Trust Fund(RQ-1019-GA).
Date: May 18, 2012
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0932 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0932

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 section 1102.114 of the Texas Occupations Code, which requires licensed real estate inspectors to carry liability insurance, would be effective if no such coverage were available (RQ-1015-GA)
Date: May 18, 2012
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0933 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0933

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 constable who was convicted of a felony but whose conviction was finalized only after he was reelected to a new term automatically vacates his office (RQ-1016-GA)
Date: May 18, 2012
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0934 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0934

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 recreational off-highway vehicles and all-terrain vehicles may be legally operated on a public beach and whether a county is authorized to establish a system for registering such vehicles with the county for operation on a beach (RQ-1017-GA)
Date: May 18, 2012
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 37, Number 20, Pages 3645-3760, May 18, 2012 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 37, Number 20, Pages 3645-3760, May 18, 2012

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: May 18, 2012
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0928 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0928

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 and to what extent depositions can be recorded solely by non-stenographic means (RQ-0993-GA)
Date: May 14, 2012
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0929 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0929

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 commissioners court to remove salary increases for county officials at the final budget hearing, and the effect of that removal on the grievance process (RQ-0999-GA)
Date: May 14, 2012
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History