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 constitutionally contract under Local Government Code section 351.061 to provide a nongovernmental association with a constable office’s law-enforcement services provided the contract (1) allows the constable to retain control and supervision of the constable’s officers and (2) does not obligate the constable to assign officers to devote any portion of their working time to the nongovernmental association (RQ-0559-GA)