Greg
Abbott
January 01, 2013
Water control and improvement district authority to regulate weed control and illegal dumping|Authority of district to regulate weed control and illegal dumping
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January 01, 2013
A county commissioner, acting alone, may not enter into an agreement with a private entity to fund the repair of county roads|Local Government Code section 81.032, commissioners court has broad discretion to accept donations of money with reasonable conditions attached when doing so would further the county\\'s road building and maintenance duties, under
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January 01, 2013
Agency\\'s reasonable interpretation of its statute is entitled to deference|Qualified allocation plan for allocating low-income housing tax credits, validity of
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January 01, 2013
Texas Medical Board investigators who are not commissioned peace officers may carry a licensed concealed handgun while on duty|Investigators for the Texas Medical Board who are not commissioned peace officers may carry a licensed concealed handgun while on duty
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January 01, 2013
Subdivision, a county may regulate as, the partition of land for a residential development in the unincorporated portion of the county under chapter 232 of the Local Government Code regardless of whether there has been a transfer of title to individual tracks|Subdivision, a county may generally regulate as, the partition of land for a residential development in the unincorporated portion of the county under chapter 232 of the Local Government Code regardless of whether there has been a transfer of title to individual tracks
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January 01, 2013
Transportation Code section 502.010 authorizes certain counties to impose an additional fee of twenty dollars to a person who fails to pay a fine, fee or tax to the county or to a defendant who fails to appear in connection with a pending criminal proceeding. The commissioners court may decide whether a county imposes the additional fee and which specific county official or department assesses and collects that fee.
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January 01, 2013
The article XVI, section 40 prohibition against dual office holding does not apply to the office of justice of the peace|To the extent that a sitting justice of the peace holds dual offices by also serving as a temporary justice under Government Code section 27.055, a court would likely conclude that doing so is constitutional under the exception provided in article XVI, section 40|Government Code section 27.055 authorizes a county judge to appoint \\"a qualified person\\" to serve as a temporary justice of the peace, which denotes one, unspecified individual, not the simultaneous appointment
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January 01, 2013
Employee service credit, requirement of interest when establishing service credit for a reinstated employee
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January 01, 2013
Article I, section 32 of the Texas Constitution, political subdivisions are prohibited from creating a legal status of domestic partnership and recognizing that status by offering public benefits based upon it, pursuant to|Article I, section 32 of the Texas Constitution, political subdivisions, including municipalities, are prohibited from creating a legal status of domestic partnership and recognizing that status by offering public benefits based upon it, pursuant to|Article I, section 32 of the Texas Constitution, political subdivisions, including school districts, are prohibited from creati
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January 01, 2013
Inmate property in county jail, county auditor has authority to access to investigate the accuracy of inmate property receipts subject to a sheriff\\'s reasonable conditions for withholding that access