Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0578 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0578

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 vacancy exists in the newly-created 444th and 445th Judicial Districts, and if so, whether those positions are required to be funded.
Date: October 31, 2007
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0510 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0510

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 conflict of interest provisions in Chapter 171 of the Local Government Code prohibit a county constable from owning and operating a wrecker service that is on the county sheriff’s wrecker rotation list (RQ-0487-GA)
Date: January 31, 2007
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0511 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0511

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 Open Meetings Act, Government Code chapter 551, permits a governmental body to admit selected members of the public into a closed meeting (RQ-0496-GA)
Date: January 31, 2007
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0478 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0478

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 Type A general-law municipality to annex land outside its extraterritorial jurisdiction (RQ-0480-GA)
Date: October 31, 2006
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0479 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0479

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; Application of chapter 706 of the Texas Transportation Code, which permits a political subdividion contract with the Texas Department of Public Safety to provide information necessary for the department to deny renewal of the driver's license of a person who fails to appear in court or fails to pay or satisfy a judgement ordering payment of a fine and costs (RQ-0481-GA)
Date: October 31, 2006
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0480 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0480

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 deputy sheriff may use a county petrol vehicle to perform off duty security work (RQ-0482-GA).
Date: October 31, 2006
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0481 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0481

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 s city may use the proceeds of certificates of obligations for a water system improvement project that is different from the one contemplated when the certificates were issued (RQ-0483-GA)
Date: October 31, 2006
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0451 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0451

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 Lake LBJ Municipal Utility District No. 2 is eligible for dissolution under Water Code section 49.321, which permits the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to dissolve inactive municipal utility districts (RQ-0441-GA)
Date: August 31, 2006
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0434 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0434

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 El Paso Water Utilities Public Service Board to set an impact fee for the new development in the City of El Paso and its extraterritorial jurisdiction (RQ-0417-GA)
Date: May 31, 2006
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-52 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-52

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 550.065(d) of the Transportation Code requires a governmental body to use the guidelines established by the Texas Building and Procurement Commission when calculating the "actual cost" of making a noncertified copy of an accident report.
Date: March 31, 2003
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-53 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-53

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: Auditing of certain accounts held by a criminal district attorney.
Date: March 31, 2003
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-54 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-54

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 the case of emergency and imperative public necessity and with a four-fifths vote of the total membership of each House," the legislature may, pursuant to article III, section 49a of the Texas Constitution, authorize expenditures in excess of the amount of cash and anticipated revenues certified by the Comptroller of Public Accounts.
Date: March 31, 2003
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-569 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-569

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: Consequences of the defeat of a ballot proposition confirming the creation of the Southeast Trinity Groundwater Conservation District, and related questions.
Date: October 31, 2002
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-570 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-570

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 Rural Foundation created by the Seventy-seventh Texas Legislature in chapter 110 of the Health and Safety Code may finance rural programs that are not health programs.
Date: October 31, 2002
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-277 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-277

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 municipal court may allow criminal defense attorneys to post bail bonds without showing proof of their solvency under articles 17.11, 17.13 and 17.14 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, and related questions (RQ-0219-JC)
Date: August 31, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-278 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-278

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 Lower Valley Water District may assess a fee to its service area property owners who opt not to connect to the District's wastewater system (RQ-0221-JC)
Date: August 31, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Open Records Letter Ruling: OR2000-0307 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Open Records Letter Ruling: OR2000-0307

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 City of Houston must release an offense report related to a pending investigation.
Date: January 31, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Open Records Letter Ruling: OR2000-0308 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Open Records Letter Ruling: OR2000-0308

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 Texas Workers Compensation Commission can withhold information reviewed by an attorney under attorney-client privilege and information including the names of other employees who reported or witnessed behavior of an employee that led to his termination when the request is by the terminated employee.
Date: January 31, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Open Records Letter Ruling: OR2000-0309 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Open Records Letter Ruling: OR2000-0309

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 Texas Department of Transportation must release a physical item and information related to a car accident when the requester is seeking the information to pursue a lawsuit against the department.
Date: January 31, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Open Records Letter Ruling: OR2000-0310 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Open Records Letter Ruling: OR2000-0310

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 Attorney General's Office must release documents related to the termination of an employee to the terminated employee when the purpose for seeking them is to bring a lawsuit against the office.
Date: January 31, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Open Records Letter Ruling: OR2000-0311 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Open Records Letter Ruling: OR2000-0311

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 a request for police reports and computer logs for twelve case numbers.
Date: January 31, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Open Records Letter Ruling: OR2000-0312 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Open Records Letter Ruling: OR2000-0312

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 the City of Dallas received request for information pertaining to Arrest Report No. 0754659-H.
Date: January 31, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Open Records Letter Ruling: OR2000-0313 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Open Records Letter Ruling: OR2000-0313

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 City of Lubbock can withhold information related to a certain address that was compiled by the city attorney for a case under attorney-client privilege rules.
Date: January 31, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Open Records Letter Ruling: OR2000-0314 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Open Records Letter Ruling: OR2000-0314

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 Texas Department of Criminal Justice can withhold questions and answers from board meetings related to a supervisor position interview process.
Date: January 31, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History