RQ-0722-GA

Re

Regulations construed using the same principles of construction as statutes, and a reasonable construction by the agency that promulgated the rules is entitled to deference|Authority to supervise inmates being held in courthouse holding cells, as the agency charged with adopting reasonable rules and procedures establishing minimum standards for the custody, care and treatment of prisoners, the Texas Commission on Jail Standards must determine, in the first instance, whether bailiffs have the