A supplemental appropriation to the Transportation Infrastructure Fund became effective on June 6, 2019. Amendments to the Fund’s distribution formula became effective on September 1, 2019. Funds distributed prior to September 1, 2019, will follow the pre-amendment formula and the amended formula will be used after September 1, 2019.
Sworn complaints authorizing seizure of dangerous dogs under Health & Safety Code section 822.002 do not require personal knowledge, and the fact that the attack was unprovoked is not a required element for dog destruction under section 822.003. The section 822.003 10-day hearing deadline is for both setting and conducting the hearing, but no provision in chapter 822 deprives a court of jurisdiction if a hearing is held outside of the 10-day deadline.
Tissue banks licensed by another state may operate in Texas pursuant to Health and Safety Code chapter 692A; however, whole-body donations, including transfers, are subject to oversight by the Anatomical Board of Texas.
Estray laws are to be enforced by the county sheriff whether the county has adopted a local-option stock law or remains an open-range area.
A district attorney pro tem appointed prior to September 1, 2019, shall be compensated according to a fee schedule stating reasonable fixed rates or minimum and maximum hourly rates, and awards outside of those parameters is invalid. An attorney assisting in a case prior to the district attorney’s recusal serves in the capacity of a special prosecutor, rather than an attorney pro tem.
Section 43.106 of the Local Government Code requires a municipality that annexed any portion of a county road or an area abutting a county road by granting a petition under former section 43.028 to also annex the full width of the road and adjacent right-of-way.
Depending on the relief sought, a county could challenge a municipality’s annexation under section 43.106 of the Local Government Code in an action in quo warranto, declaratory judgment, or both.
Subchapter D, chapter 822 of the Health and Safety Code governs dangerous dogs and incorporates local regulation. Under the home-rule amendment of the Texas Constitution, however, a municipality cannot adopt an ordinance that conflicts with or is inconsistent with state law.
Section 822.042 allows thirty days for an owner to comply with the applicable requirements for owning a dangerous dog. A municipal ordinance imposing a shorter compliance deadline cannot be harmonized with the statute and therefore the municipal ordinance provision would fall.
Subsection 1704.304(c) of the Occupations Code prohibits a bail bond surety from soliciting business in a police station, jail, prison, detention facility, or other place of detainment for persons in the custody of law enforcement. Based on the description provided, a court would likely conclude that a signboard installed inside a jail facility by a third party providing information about available bail bond services does not amount to a solicitation and is therefore not prohibited under subsection 1704.304(c).