Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0719 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0719

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 an attorney who acts as an unpaid advisor to the board of trustees of an independent school district may also represent the district for compensation in the collection of delinquent taxes (RQ-0767-GA)
Date: June 2, 2009
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0720 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0720

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 an agent under a statutory durable power of attorney may alter the method of disposition of a person's body previously specified by that person in a prepaid funeral contract (RQ-0768-GA)
Date: June 2, 2009
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0685 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0685

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 an out-of-state company may be considered a "resident bidder" under particular circumstances (RQ-0703-GA).
Date: December 2, 2008
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0659 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0659

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: Legal status of a portion of a road originally built as an Ellis County road but which a later survey established as located in Navarro County (RQ-0682-GA).
Date: September 2, 2008
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0661 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0661

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 is authorized to pay a performance-based bonus to elected officials (RQ-0686-GA).
Date: September 2, 2008
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0640 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0640

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; Applicability of chapter 1501, Texas Insurance Code, to certain health benefit "criteria" plans offered by employers (RQ-0662-GA)
Date: July 2, 2008
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0612 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0612

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 must pay a fire fighter or police officer for an appearance as a witness in a civil service hearing before a hearing examiner when the fire fighter or police officer is subpoenaed in his or her capacity as a fire fighter or police officer and testifies during time off (RQ-0633-GA)
Date: April 2, 2008
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0574 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0574

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: School district responsibilities under section 25.0951(a) of the Texas Education Code (RQ-0584-GA)
Date: October 2, 2007
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0575 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0575

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 bail bond board may implement a rule allowing a temporary extension of the license expiration dates set forth in section 1704.162 of the Occupations Code (RQ-0585-GA)
Date: October 2, 2007
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0446 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0446

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; Conflict of interest disclosure requirements for local government offices and persons who contract with local governmental entities (RQ-0451-GA)
Date: August 2, 2006
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0407 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0407

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 Natural Resources Code section 33.613 violates article VII, section 4 or 5 of the Texas Constitution (RQ-0388-GA)
Date: March 2, 2006
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0408 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0408

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 municipality with a population of fewer than 35,000 to impose a hotel occupancy tax in its extraterritorial jurisdiction when the combined rate of state, county, and municipal hotel occupancy taxes would exceed 15 percent (RQ-0390-GA)
Date: March 2, 2006
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0369 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0369

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 House Bill 3507 and Senate Bill 282 from the Seventy-eighth Legislature when read together to create a conflict that was correctly interpreted by West in the 2004 edition of the Texas Occupations Code (RQ-0340-GA)
Date: November 2, 2005
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0370 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0370

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 statutory county court judge may recover back pay from the county, which failed to pay the judge the salary to which the judge was entitled under Government Code section 25.0005 (RQ-0341-GA)
Date: November 2, 2005
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0301 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0301

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 Health and Safety Code section 691.023(b) prohibits a commissioners court from adopting an order authorizing cremation as a means of disposing of the remains of a deceased pauper (RQ-0263-GA)
Date: February 2, 2005
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0302 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0302

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 Texas or New Jersey law applies to the payment of late fees on a contract between a Texas county and an out-of-state vendor (RQ-0266-GA)
Date: February 2, 2005
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0303 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0303

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 an elected county official may close his office on a day declared by the Governor of Texas to be an “official day of mourning” (RQ-0267-GA)
Date: February 2, 2005
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0245 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0245

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 courtrooms and offices of the 40th and 378th District Courts may be located anywhere within the geographical boundaries of the City of Waxahachie (RQ-0200-GA)
Date: September 2, 2004
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0246 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0246

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 civil service commissioner of a municipality governed by chapter 143, Local Government Code, may be appointed to two or more consecutive terms, and if not, whether the reappointment of a commissioner constitutes a criminal offense (RQ-0201-GA)
Date: September 2, 2004
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Open Records Letter Ruling: OR2000-0337 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Open Records Letter Ruling: OR2000-0337

Document issued by the Open Records Division at the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an informal interpretation of Texas law related to whether the Dallas, Texas Police Department must release a police report related to a pending investigation.
Date: February 2, 2002
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-449 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-449

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 Lottery Commission is authorized to approve or disapprove secondary components or features of an electronic bingo cardminding device unrelated to the game of bingo that allow a player to play various games, such as video poker, during a bingo occasion, and related questions (RQ-0383-JC)
Date: January 2, 2002
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-402 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-402

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 section 26.179 of the Water Code as amended in 1999 is constitutional.
Date: August 2, 2001
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-403 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-403

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 office of consolidated school district trustee is an "office of profit or trust" within the meaning of article XI, section 11 of the Texas Constitution and related question.
Date: August 2, 2001
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-302 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-302

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 section 661.063, Government Code, with regard to payment for vacation balances accrued prior September 1, 1997 (RQ-0246-JC)
Date: November 2, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History