KP-0125

Ken Paxton

Categories

Dual Office Holding , Incompatibility of Offices , Libraries , Incompatibility of Offices , Municipal Officers and Employees , Incompatibility of Offices , Special Districts and Authorities , Incompatibility of Offices , Taxes and Taxation - Political Subdivisions

Summary

An individual may not simultaneously serve as Forest Hill city council member and Forest Hill library district trustee when the city and the library district have taxation authority in overlapping territories|Forest Hill library district trustee may not simultaneously serve as Forest Hill city council member when the city and the library district have taxation authority in overlapping territories|Individual may not simultaneously serve as Forest Hill city council member and Forest Hill library district trustee when the city and library district have overlapping taxation authority|Because the City of Forest Hill and the Forest Hill Library District have overlapping taxation authority, an individual may not simultaneously serve as city council member and library district trustee|Forest Hill Library District and City of Forest Hill have overlapping taxation authority; thus, an individual may not simultaneously serve as city council member and library district trustee|In qualifying for the second office of library district trustee, the individual effectively resigned from the office of city council

Opinion File

kp0125.pdf