Ken Paxton

If wearing a facial covering in a transit authority vehicle or facility is necessary for the safe and efficient operation of the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Authority may require any person medically capable of doing so to wear a facial covering when entering its vehicles or facilities. 

County authority to require facial coverings in courtrooms, courthouses, and county buildings can be found in in the Texas statutes, and in emergency and executive orders.

Construed within the context of chapter 23, articles 23.01 and 23.04 identify the court that may issue a capias, after commitment or the posting of bail.

A court is unlikely to conclude that institutions of higher education may use passage of other exams for comparable programs or passage of a State Board for Educator Certification Bilingual Target Language Proficiency Test practice exam to meet the grant award requirement in Rider 52 that qualified students pass the State Board for Educator Certification Bilingual Target Language Proficiency Test.

Absent an election granting it authority, the Jackson County County-Wide Drainage District does not possess authority to levy, set the rate, and collect a flood control tax.

A court is unlikely to conclude that a judge of a court of record may appoint an official court recorder in lieu of an official court reporter.

The law generally does not prohibit a property owner from maintaining an abandoned cemetery on its land so long as the owner does not construct any improvements on the property that disturb the cemetery.

Water Code subsection 49.226(b) does not require a river authority to obtain fair market value to release a surplus inundation easement acquired by dedication or otherwise without the payment of compensation.

A county’s payment of an amount owed under a contract for services required by that contract does not violate Texas Constitution article III, section 53, nor is an amended contract supported by sufficient additional consideration in violation of that constitutional prohibition.

House Concurrent Resolution 111, passed by the 80th Legislature, gives the State Preservation Board and the Texas Facilities Commission discretion concerning the construction of a Bill of Rights monument.