| MUNICIPALITIES |
| A court would likely conclude that a governmental entity improperly prohibiting handguns by oral or by a written notice that does not conform to Penal Code section 30.06 violates Government Code section 411.209. | KP-0049 |
| Annexation of area excepted from three-year plan requirement does not require a residence
be located on each tract | GA-0737 |
| Annexations near active military base - sufficiency of ballot measure | KP-0221 |
| Annexed property, whether city is required to improve and maintain dedicated right-of-way in city limits to provide municipal services to annexed area | GA-0459 |
| Article I, section 16 of the Texas Constitution, metropolitan rapid transit authority may charge a withdrawn city for transportation services provided to persons with disabilities pursuant to sections 451.610 and 451.616 of the Transportation Code, even if city withdrew from authority prior to enactment of sections 451.610 and 451.616 of the Transportation Code, without violating | GA-0833 |
| Authority granted to peace officers from adjoining states under article 2.124 of the Code of Criminal Procedure includes the authority to use deadly force and is limited to the municipal limits | GA-0690 |
| Authority of a Type A corporation under the Development Corporation Act to provide financing of a project involving a nonprofit organization that provides affordable housing services | GA-0819 |
| Authority to take action regarding flood waters and drainage, drainage district shares with municipality located within the district | LO98-096 |
| Bingo, municipal senior citizen community center that is authorized to conduct bingo under Bingo Enabling Act exemption may assert a defense to prosecution under chapter 47 of the Penal Code for possession of gambling paraphernalia | GA-0173 |
| Brazos River Authority is municipal government for purposes of subsection 901.410(1) of the Occupations Code | GA-0811 |
| Business relationship requiring disclosure under chapter 176 of Local Government Code, personal or business interest bearing savings account generating taxable income is | GA-0446 |
| Charter, common-law doctrine of incompatibility with respect to municipal offices may be overcome by | LO94-020 |
| City Administrator of City of League City, Assistant Chief of Police on paid leave of absence from position is barred from serving as
| GA-0536 |
| City charter - only qualified voters of a city may vote in an election to amend a | GA-1031 |
| City charter provision allowing a majority of a city council to call a special meeting, inconclusive as to whether such provision violates the Open Meetings Act | GA-0717 |
| City council may discuss appointment of members to Dallas Area Rapid Transit Board in executive session but may take final action only in an open meeting | LO94-063 |
| City may not build publicly-funded seawall on private land absent an easement or other appropriate interest in the land | GA-0528 |
| City withdrawing from regional transportation authority, a metropolitan planning organization’s policy body does not have authority under chapter 452, Transportation Code, to close a transit station in | GA-0836 |
| Civil Practice and Remedies Code section 75.002, subsection (f) and (g) do not apply to the state, a county, or a municipality that owns, operates, or maintains its premises for bicycle-related recreational activities | GA-0338 |
| Civil service municipality’s adoption of the Fire and Police Employees Relations Act, effect on fire chief’s authority to appoint deputies | GA-0662 |
| Collective bargaining, city and fire fighters association may not negotiate to exclude from collective bargaining unit certain high ranking fire fighters | LO98-102 |
| Concealed handguns, whether municipality may prohibit carrying on its premises by posting notice under criminal trespass statute | LO95-058 |
| Conflict of interest provisions, statute applying to boards created on behalf of municipal water systems is not retroactive and thus not applicable to San Antonio Water System | JC-0509 |
| Courtrooms and offices, 40th and 378th District Courts may locate outside original sixty-two acres of City of Waxahachie, so long as those courtrooms and offices are located within the currently existing municipal boundaries of that city | GA-0245 |
| Crime control and prevention district, member of city council may not appoint himself to board of directors of | JC-0474 |
| Delete time from military leave-time account, a municipality may not | GA-0174 |
| Denver boot, use of is not per se violative of due process | LO93-039 |
| Developer, municipality may require payment bond but not performance bond of | LO90-108 |
| Development corporation, city council that created corporation may disapprove of specific expenditures | GA-0086 |
| Device having the appearance of a fire hydrant, water company’s authority to paint it black | GA-0710 |
| Disannexation is sole remedy available to aggrieved parties in newly annexed area if municipality does not provide services in accordance with service plan | LO90-090 |
| Disclosure requirements of chapter 176 of Local Government Code, local governmental entity may require vendor or potential vendor to agree to comply with | GA-0446 |
| Disincorporation of the City of San Elizario by 1891 special act of legislature does not contravene article III, section 56 or 57 of Texas Constitution | JC-0101 |
| Dissolve or reincorporate, a municipality may if it complies with legal requirements | GA-0483 |
| Division of tracts within municipality's limits or extraterritorial jurisdiction, statutory platting requirements not triggered unless divisions involve laying out of streets, alleys, squares, parks or other parts dedicated to public use or use of purchas | LO90-047 |
| Drain services benefiting private individuals, authority to provide | LO97-046 |
| Economic development corporation created under article 5190.6, section 4A of the Revised Civil Statutes and dissolving following voter initiative, creating municipality must approve plan of dissolution | JC-0553 |
| Emergency medical services or First Responder services within the boundaries of a hospital district, municipality may expend tax funds to provide through its fire department | JC-0420 |
| Enforce requirements of chapter 176 of Local Government Code, local governmental entity has no affirmative duty to | GA-0446 |
| Executive director of corporation, mayor of city that creates industrial development corporation is not prohibited from serving as, but he may in certain instances be obliged to disclose his relationship when city council considers matters involving the c | JC-0547 |
| Existing contracts or agreements governing funding pertaining to the station, any right in the RTC to seek repayment from the City of federal funds expended in relation to the transit station would be determined under | GA-0836 |
| Extent to which Texas Commission on Environmental Quality must consider recommendation from municipality to deny Standard Permit under Clean Air Act | KP-0190 |
| Extraterritorial jurisdiction previously relinquished pursuant to chapter 42 of the Local Government Code, authority to reacquire | GA-0750 |
| Extraterritorial jurisdiction, municipality may choose method by which it will determine | LO94-033 |
| Fair market value of city-owned lakeshore lot leased to private person where purchaser is lessee | LO98-082 |
| Fiber optic cable, authority of city to install and operate with private company | DM-0391 |
| Fire and police employees, application of position classification system in municipality that has not adopted civil service system | LO96-027 |
| Government Code subsection 2051.044(a)(3), newspaper designated by a municipality that is released to the public in the same county where it is entered as second-class postal matter complies with | GA-0838 |
| Handheld laser speed enforcement device equipped with a video camera and GPS technology, under section 542.2035 of the Transportation Code a municipality is prohibited from using a | GA-0846 |
| Harris County-Houston Sports Authority, Houston City Council may not approve change order for authority's contracts or place restrictions on lease agreements negotiated by | DM-0454 |
| HIV health services planning council as agent of municipality | LO95-036 |
| Home rule status, City of Socorro may not amend its charter to attain home rule status except by compliance with chapters 5 and 9 of the Local Government Code | JC-0187 |
| Hospital district’s authority to contribute funds to city for building to house emergency medical services vehicle | GA-0721 |
| Housing authority created by municipality, reimbursement of commissioners on per diem basis | LO94-043 |
| Housing authority, municipal authority to appoint a city council member as an ex officio member of a housing authority board of commissioners | KP-0006 |
| Insurance and benefits coverage, municipality must maintain when a municipal fire fighter or police officer is called for military duty, but only on the terms in effect when the employee received the call which may include the employees' obligations to pa | GA-0174 |
| Interlocal contract, municipality may extend transit system into another municipality pursuant to | LO92-082 |
| Interlocal cooperation contracts to furnish or obtain fire department services, civil liability under section 791.006 of Government Code relating to | GA-0029 |
| Jail operated for municipality by private entity, minimum jail standards apply to | JM-1260 |
| Lease of municipality's mineral property, subchapter A, chapter 71 of Natural Resources Code irreconcilably conflicts with section 253.005 of Local Government Code; section 253.005 prevails as the more specific enactment | GA-0441 |
| Legislator as employee of local government, prohibited by Texas Constitution article XVI, section 40(d) | KP-0226 |
| Legislator's acceptance of payment from local government for lobbying, authority and limitations | KP-0226 |
| Licensed vehicle storage facility, a towing company may not assess a nonconsenting owner or interest holder a towing fee without taking the vehicle to a | GA-0215 |
| Local Government Code section 43.129 - It is not possible to reliably predict whether a court would require a municipality to meet the 225,000 population requirement in subsection 43.121(a) in order to annex for limited purposes by consent under the authority granted by section 43.129. | GA-1096 |
| Local government policy that prevents cooperation with the federal government regarding a person’s immigration status, likely preempted | GA-0699 |
| Local human rights commissions, authority to file civil action in district court | LO93-010 |
| Map of municipal boundaries, duty of municipality to prepare | LO95-017 |
| Meetings, notice required for "personal endorsement" motion | GA-0477 |
| Mentally ill individual transported to hospital, chapter 573 of the Health and Safety Code does not place a duty on one law enforcement agency over another to oversee | GA-0877 |
| Military leave-time account, municipal fire fighters and police officers are entitled to donate any amount of leave to their department's military leave-time account that they would be entitled to use for themselves | GA-0174 |
| Municipal annexation plan, failure to adopt does not result in void annexation | GA-0737 |
| Municipal health authority, upon dissolution assets may be disposed of only for a public purpose | LO95-008 |
| Municipal Retirement System - A court would likely conclude that the State is not required to assume liability when a municipal retirement system created under title 109 of the Texas Civil Statutes is unable to meet its financial obligations | KP-0112 |
| Municipal sales tax purposes, amended Tax Code prevents certain outlets, offices, facilities, or locations from qualifying as a "place of business of the retailer" for | GA-0137 |
| Municipal sales tax rebate contracts, amended Tax Code does not invalidate existing contracts nor prohibit municipalities and businesses from executing new contracts | GA-0137 |
| Municipalities with both a paid police department and a paid fire department, chapter 143 of the Local Government Code (civil service law) applies only to | LO93-006 |
| Municipality may sell its utility system to a river authority by virtue of section 30.035, Water Code without holding an election under subsection 1502.055(a), Government Code | GA-0959 |
| Municipality's authority to impose fines and fees under Local Government Code section 43.0117(b) concerning annexation near military base | KP-0221 |
| Municipally owned utility and establishment of board member qualifications, which can include out-of-city representation. Under Local Government Code chapter 552.122, a city has authority to adopt an ordinance providing for a board of trustees to manage and control its | GA-1031 |
| Newspaper,a paper used for the publication of a political subdivision’s notices under section 2051.044 of the Government Code must satisfy the requirements of a | GA-0856 |
| Nonprofit, no-share corporation, whether municipality may sponsor | DM-0194 |
| Notice of meetings, City of Austin Employees Retirement System should post at city hall | LO92-034 |
| Notify persons of applicability of chapter 176 of Local Government Code, local governmental entity has not affirmative duty to | GA-0446 |
| On-site sewage facilities, whether municipal authority to regulate is preempted by Natural Resource Conservation Commission | DM-0343 |
| Park board, authority to authorize tourist hotel under its management and control to offer fitness center memberships to local residents | JC-0252 |
| Park land, authority of municipality to convey to University of Texas | DM-0441 |
| Park land, authority to convey to hospital district | DM-0232 |
| Park land, authority to sell, standing of private individual to challenge sale | LO97-057 |
| Payment by city of certain expenses of private nonprofit corporation that holds land within city for sale to industrial prospects, constitutionality of | LO94-008 |
| Payment of civil penalty under chapter 707, Transportation Code, by school district, may not contravene article III, sections 51 and 52(a) of Texas Constitution if district is not liable but payment accomplishes public purpose | GA-0747 |
| Payment of civil penalty under chapter 707, Transportation Code, by school district, would not contravene article III, sections 51 and 52(a) of Texas Constitution if district is liable | GA-0747 |
| Penalty setting fine higher than maximum prescribed by state ordinance, city may not adopt under section 485.019 of the Health and Safety Code regarding display of aerosol paint | LO98-041 |
| Petition signed by twenty percent of its qualified voters, municipality not required to receive before calling an election to withdraw from a regional transportation authority | GA-0763 |
| Pool slide, to the extent a municipality that operates is subject to the Amusement Ride Safety Insurance and Inspection Act but must purchase insurance only in amounts sufficient to satisfy the municipality’s potential liability under the Tort Claims Act
| GA-0520 |
| Prevailing wage law does not apply to project undertaken by development corporation created by city unless city, state, or another political subdivision is a party to the construction contract | JC-0032 |
| Privately-owned street within city boundaries, city may not enforce traffic laws on | JC-0016 |
| Professional service contracts, disclosure requirements of chapter 176 of Local Government Code apply to | GA-0446 |
| Project labor agreement, whether section 271.121 of the Local Government Code prohibits a governmental entity from requiring a contractor or other vendor to sign a project labor agreement is a fact question beyond the purview of the Opinion Committee | GA-0858 |
| Public improvement district, municipality may not create in absence of landowner petition | LO96-129 |
| Qualified hotel project within Enterprise Zone Act, whether private entity selected by a municipality comprises | LO95-085 |
| Rabies vaccination certificate, Harris County Animal Control is prohibited from providing to entity that contracts with city of Houston information contained in | GA-0367 |
| Ratification of "personal endorsement" action | GA-0477 |
| Recall election, existence of challenges to the sufficiency of a recall petition does not relieve a city council of duty to order if the city charter so requires | GA-1043 |
| Recall petition, whether any particular city can establish standing to challenge the sufficiency of, is for a court to determine | GA-1043 |
| Records retention schedule, documents filed with local governmental entity pursuant to chapter 176 of Local Government Code should be retained according to entity's | GA-0446 |
| Redevelopment plan, whether city required to condemn property in reinvestment zone to implement | LO96-138 |
| Regional transportation authority, municipality is "included within boundaries" of, only if it actually participates in the authority | LO90-065 |
| Registered sex offenders, local government may broadcast certain information about on local cable television station | GA-0056 |
| Regulation providing for a tenant's eviction for the otherwise legal possession of a firearm, municipal housing authority may not adopt | DM-0071 |
| Reinvestment zone, authority of city to terminate reinvestment zone and create successor for purposes of setting new tax increment base | DM-0390 |
| Reinvestment zone, whether city's loan to defunct reinvestment zone may be treated as "project cost" of successor | DM-0390 |
| Removal of a vehicle, a peace officer may order a nonconsent tow of certain vehicles to a nearby place of safety | GA-0215 |
| Repair of road located within city limits, county is authorized to pay for if road is integral part of or connecting link with county's road system | LO98-116 |
| Reserve police force, a city that has adopted chapter 143 of the Texas Local Government Code may create and maintain a | GA-0893 |
| Retirement plan, authority to adopt without holding election under article 6243k, Revised Civil Statutes | LO98-070 |
| Right-of-way, water corporation must obtain municipality's consent before laying water system pipes, mains, or conductors through municipal; municipality may require water corporation to remove or relocate fixtures at corporation's expense | JC-0556 |
| Risk pool, applicability of Insurance Code provisions requiring mental health parity, prohibiting treating pregnancy as a preexisting condition, and prohibiting charging deductible for covered child's required immunizations | GA-0047 |
| Rules adopted by fire and police civil service commission, authority of city to approve, reject, or review | DM-0447 |
| Rural fire prevention district may not include territory within a city or its extraterritorial jurisdiction unless majority of voters residing in combined territory of the city and its extraterritorial jurisdiction vote in favor of creating the district | LO98-081 |
| Salary advances to employees not ordinarily within city's authority | JM-1194 |
| Service plan for annexation, validity of requirement that residents pay for capital improvements is a fact question | GA-0737 |
| Sewage disposal system, city may compel property owners within its jurisdiction to connect to system operated by river authority | JC-0162 |
| Solid waste disposal services, county authority to provide such services by contract or otherwise to persons in a municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction | GA-0988 |
| Solid waste hauler, municipal authority to displace following annexation of service area | LO97-037 |
| Special-purpose entity, municipal territory and functions may overlap | LO98-096 |
| Sports venue district composed of a county and municipality, municipal election not required provided voters of county gave their approval | DM-0455 |
| Standards of the International Residential Code, Local Government Code section 214.212(c)(1) does not limit a municipality to adopting only amendments that are equivalent to or more stringent than | GA-0297 |
| Street maintenance budget, city not prohibited from deducting amounts corresponding to those transferred to it by metropolitan rapid transit authority | LO92-071 |
| Streets, a county may use road bonds issued under article III, section 52(b) and (c) of the Texas Constitution to construct, maintain, or operate a municipal street that forms a connecting link or an integral part of a county road or state highway | GA-0576 |
| Subdivision regulation agreement, deadlines for completing a certified subdivision regulation agreement between a county and a municipality under section 242.0015 of the Local Government Code | GA-0230 |
| Tax increment financing reinvestment zone, whether city may designate as reinvestment zone area that is not “unproductive, underdeveloped, or blighted” if its plan of financing does not include issuance of bonds or notes
| GA-0514 |
| Tax increment financing reinvestment zones, authority of municipality to designate a zone that is not unproductive, underdeveloped, or blighted within meaning of Texas Constitution | JC-0152 |
| Tax increment financing reinvestment zones, authority of municipality to use unexpended tax increment funds to build project outside of terminated zone | JC-0141 |
| Texas Asbestos Health Protection Act, a municipality is included in the term "person" as used in the | GA-0729 |
| Texas Asbestos Health Protection Act, inclusion of a municipality in the definition of person does not constitute a clear and unambiguous waiver of immunity from suit for a violation of section 1954.259(b)(2) of the | GA-0729 |
| Utility records of municipality, municipality generally may not disclose personal information from to person or entity that welcomes newcomers | LO93-108 |
| Utility system board is agent of municipality | DM-0444 |
| Veterinarian may be employed by municipality | LO95-003 |
| Village of Long Island is within extraterritorial jurisdiction of City of Port Isabel and may not incorporate without the latter's consent | GA-0107 |
| Void, local governmental entity may provide that contract entered into with person failing to comply with chapter 176 of Local Government Code is | GA-0446 |
| Vote of a city council to reject reappointment of municipal court judge is an "action" sufficient to terminate tenure of judge | LO97-020 |
| Zoning, city council's authority to act on requests for variance | LO97-062 |
| Funds |
| Attorney fees to defend against prosecution for violating Open Meetings Act, reimbursement of public officers' from public funds (Tex. Att'y Gen. Op. No. DM-488 (1998) modified) | JC-0294 |
| Bond proceeds, use for legal fees for arbitration of construction contract | JC-0127 |
| Budget adopted by ordinance, a municipality may amend only by adopting an ordinance | GA-0431 |
| Certificates of obligation, authority of a municipality to issue to finance construction of a municipal open-enrollment charter school facility | GA-0069 |
| City council does not have authority to require police department to purchase vehicles with forfeiture funds distributed to department pursuant to article 59.06 of Code of Criminal Procedure | JC-0005 |
| Community development block grant funds, expenditure of subject to state competitive bidding laws | DM-0331 |
| Continuing education for local law enforcement officers, funds allocated for may not be diverted to the general fund of a county or municipality | JC-0190 |
| Death benefits, entitlement of widow of retired city employee to | LO95-026 |
| Depository, municipality must determine in first instance whether it may secure public funds with Small Business Administration Certificates | LO94-017 |
| Depository, municipality not authorized to deposit funds in the demand accounts of savings and loan associations | DM-0099 |
| Development corporation, city that established it may not give public money or free services to but may provide funding and services in exchange for consideration, subject to certain limitations | JC-0109 |
| Development corporation, use of sales and use tax proceeds for maintenance and operating costs of project | LO98-062 |
| Disposition of remaining assets of an abolished municipality to a nonprofit corporation | KP-0035 |
| Donation to school district, city may spend public funds only for a public purpose and a municipal purpose and may not make | JC-0212 |
| Economic development corporation created under the Development Corporation Act of 1979, whether a section 4A development corporation may grant funds and refund sales taxes to a private corporation in light of amendment to the Act changing the purpose of | GA-0264 |
| Economic development, cities authorized to offer a range of incentives, expenditures must comport with article III, section 52 of the Texas Constitution | DM-0185 |
| Economic development, city may issue bonds to fund provided that bonds issued in accordance with municipal charter and approved by the voters | DM-0185 |
| Fire fighters' pension plan merger with Statewide Volunteer Fire Fighters' Retirement Fund, "unfunded prior-service cost" does not include benefits received by retired fire fighters | LO95-075 |
| Forfeiture funds, city council has only limited authority to determine how to expend | DM-0072 |
| General city purposes, chapter 351 of the Tax Code prohibits hotel occupancy tax revenues, including any surplus funds, from being expended for | GA-0851 |
| Grant of public funds to school district to use in constructing school buildings within city boundaries, city may not provide | LO96-063 |
| Guarantor for the obligations of a private entity for an economic development purpose, city may not lend its credit by being except pursuant to statute implementing article III, section 52-a of the Texas Constitution | JM-1227 |
| Investment in mutual funds holding only adjustable rate mortgages that obligate United States agencies | DM-0202 |
| Loan for private housing project, city's authority to make | GA-0529 |
| Major Urban Resource Library grant, Library and Archives Commission not authorized to deny to library because of library's failure to provide services to nonresidents of municipality | LO95-077 |
| Open-enrollment charter school, a municipality is not authorized to issue certificates of obligation to finance construction of school facility | GA-0069 |
| Payment of costs incurred in a successful appeal to a zoning board as unconstitutional gratuity | KP-0056 |
| Private streets, constitutionality of using municipal funds to provide lighting for | LO94-078 |
| Public Funds Investment Act would not govern a municipal utility's authority to invest nuclear decommissioning trust funds derived from charges paid by the selling utility's customers | GA-0257 |
| Revenues from city water system, placement in general fund (Tex. Att'y Gen. Op. No. DM-488 (1998) modified) | JC-0294 |
| Sales and use tax levied under section 4A of Development Corporation Act of 1979, authority to make a "grant" of tax proceeds for "rehabilitation and job training/educational facility" | JC-0362 |
| School district, municipality may not finance acquisition of facility for lease by to be used solely for school district purposes | JM-1255 |
| Security lending agreements, trustees of municipal fire fighters retirement fund not authorized to enter into with corporate borrower | JM-1210 |
| Subsequent election, proceeds of bonds approved for improvements to city's existing civic center may not be used to construct new civic and convention center unless approved by voters at | LO98-060 |
| Traffic fine money, effective date of legislation allocating between cities and state under various scenarios | JM-1200 |
| General Law |
| Budget officer, city council may not delegate to another city officer or agent mayor's or city manager's statutory authority as | JC-0544 |
| City council of Type A or Type B general law city, authority to decide to dispense with monthly meetings for three successive months
| JC-0028 |
| City manager form of government may only be adopted by vote of residents pursuant to statute | JC-0544 |
| Conveyances of personal and real property from general-law municipality to volunteer fire fighting associations, validity not affected by fact that city council member simultaneously served on fire fighting association board nor by council member's possib | GA-0084 |
| Firearm discharge ordinance, authority of a Type A general-law municipality to adopt and enforce ordinance prohibiting firearm discharge on property located within the municipality’s original corporate limits | GA-0862 |
| General law municipalities may exercise only powers specifically conferred on them by statute or constitution | KP-0181 |
| Governing body members may not serve on general law city's board of adjustment | LO92-056 |
| Homeowner association dues, Type-A municipality not authorized to collect | KP-0171 |
| Longevity pay system, no express or implied authority for general law city to establish | LO90-014 |
| Payroll deduction under the Fire and Police Employee Relations Act, general-law city with population below 10,000 has implicit authority to provide | GA-0625 |
| Pollution resulting from generalized discharges of waste which are not traceable to a specific source, the Legislature has authorized a municipality to regulate in its extraterritorial jurisdiction | GA-0762 |
| Quorum of city council of Type A general law city | JC-0028 |
| Reannexation, prior annexation followed by disannexation does not preclude | DM-0373 |
| Residence restriction on sex offenders, a general-law municipality has no authority to adopt | GA-0526 |
| Sale of building located on a city street to a private entity | GA-1084 |
| Street vendors, Type A general-law city's authority to regulate or prohibit by ordinance | JC-0145 |
| Superseded by a special-law municipality, a municipality that incorporated under general law may be reincorporated under special law, and in that case the general-law municipality is | GA-0483 |
| Tax imposed by municipality included in water user's bill dedicated to maintenance of fire fighting equipment, general-law municipality has no statutory authority to levy | GA-0084 |
| Type A general-law city, authorization to annex in extraterritorial jurisdiction | GA-0478 |
| Type B general law city, candidate for elective office must meet requirements of section 23.024 of the Local Government Code and section 141.001(a)(4) of the Election Code | DM-0089 |
| Type C general-law municipality's authority to levy ad valorem taxes | KP-0028 |
| Vacancy on city council must be filled by election pursuant to article XI, section 11, Texas Constitution if city officers serve terms longer than two years | GA-0046 |
| Vacancy on city council of type A general-law city occurs when city council accepts resignation or eight days after it is submitted, whichever is earlier | GA-0046 |
| Volunteer fire fighter, City of Cockrell Hill may not adopt resolution barring simultaneous service of city council member as | JC-0564 |
| Warrant division of municipal court of record, authority of general law city to appoint uniformed warrant officers authorized to serve process and serve as bailiff | JM-1222 |
| Water and sewer service to disannexed territory, general-law municipality may discontinue | LO96-087 |
| Home Rule |
| A home-rule city's charter provision that conflicts with state law is void. | KP-0026 |
| Aesthetics and maintenance of property values, home rule city may enforce against school district ordinances based upon | GA-0697 |
| Agenda for city council meeting, city council has discretion to determine reasonableness of rule requiring agreement of one-third of city council to place item on | DM-0473 |
| Alcoholic beverage, home-rule city may not delegate to a subordinate municipal board the authority to grant variances in the regulation of | GA-0120 |
| Alcoholic beverages in class containers, municipality may not prohibit sale of all, but may prohibit sale of beer in glass containers | GA-0110 |
| Appointment of municipal waterworks system employee as municipal housing authority commissioner | KP-0223 |
| Attorney General does not ordinarily construe city charters | GA-0449 |
| Cemetery, home-rule municipality authorized to operate | GA-0044 |
| Charter amendment by ordinance, validity of | GA-0433 |
| Cigarette vending machines, home-rule city may prohibit | DM-0433 |
| City council terms of home-rule city that exceed four years are contrary to Texas Constitution article XI, section 11(a) | GA-0985 |
| City of Anson is a home-rule municipality | JC-0351 |
| Common-law doctrine of incompatibility, no authority under home rule power to exempt city council's appointments to governing body of another political subdivision from | JC-0225 |
| Compost products, home-rule city’s to sell outside city limits | GA-0506 |
| Conflicts of interest, home-rule city may adopt ordinance regulating that is not inconsistent with Local Government Code chapter 171 | GA-0068 |
| Determination whether city charter requires city council member to abstain from voting is beyond purview of attorney general opinion | KP-0231 |
| Dual office holding provision in city charter that prohibits a municipal judge from serving as justice of the peace is not inconsistent with article XVI, section 40 | GA-0362 |
| Fees for inspecting installation and relocation of bus stops, home-rule city may not impose | GA-0082 |
| Glass beverage containers, municipality may prohibit sale of | GA-0110 |
| Home-rule cities, legislative power is vested in city council and citizenry of | GA-0342 |
| Home-rule municipality may not change city council terms from three years to four years without charter amendment | GA-0985 |
| Impact fees, Local Government Code section 395 does not give a political subdivision or governmental entity, other than school districts, discretion to not pay required fees | GA-0821 |
| Incompatibility of offices, home-rule city may adopt a charter dual office holding provision that is stricter than the common-law doctrine of incompatibility | GA-0362 |
| Instant runoff voting, home-rule municipality cannot institute because inconsistent with state constitutional and statutory requirements that municipal officers be elected by majority vote and, if no candidate be elected by a majority, that a runoff elect | GA-0025 |
| Meetings, home-rule city may adopt reasonable rules of procedure for meetings not inconsistent with constitution, statutes, or city charter provisions | DM-0473 |
| Municipal regulation conflicts with state law, home-rule municipality preempted from regulating subject matter if | GA-0342 |
| Nepotism policy more restrictive than state nepotism law, home rule city may adopt | LO93-030 |
| Nepotism statutes (Government Code chapter 573) do not apply to the hiring of a city commissioner's relative by the city manager if the city's charter delegates full and final appointing authority to the city manager | GA-0595 |
| Nepotism statutes, municipal governing board does not avoid the application of by delegating, to the city manager, in its city charter, authority to appoint department heads "subject to consultation with the" governing board | GA-0226 |
| Ordinance or resolution adopted by home-rule city must be consistent with city charter | GA-0130 |
| Park ranger of City of San Antonio is not a "police officer" | LO90-024 |
| Parkland, lease or sale of to an independent school district | GA-0558 |
| Perpetual care trust, authority of city to terminate, deposit funds in general revenue fund, and apply those funds to cemetery maintenance | LO90-073 |
| Political speech of elected city council members, home-rule city may restrict only for a compelling governmental interest | GA-0068 |
| Population exceeds 5000, city determines if population exceeds 5000 and it is therefore eligible to elect to become home-rule municipality | JC-0351 |
| Possession and consumption of alcoholic beverages, neither the Alcoholic Beverage Commission nor the City of Corsicana may regulate a business establishment that permits the possession and consumption of alcoholic beverages on a BYOB ("bring you own bottle") basis | GA-0561 |
| Preempted by state law, home-rule city ordinance prohibiting cigarette vending machines is not | DM-0433 |
| Preemption, home-rule city may not adopt an ordinance licensing tobacco product retailers | DM-0182 |
| Recall election, city council members removed from office in recall election do not hold over until their successors are qualified | GA-0175 |
| Representatives appointed by City Council of Garland to Board of Directors of North Texas Municipal Water District, city council lacks authority under its charter to remove | JM-1239 |
| Residence restrictions on sex offenders, state law does not preempt a home-rule municipality's authority to adopt | GA-0526 |
| Resign to run, authority of home-rule city to provide in city charter for automatic resignation of mayor or council member who runs for another office | GA-0217 |
| Retirement plan, home-rule city must have express statutory authority to adopt | LO98-070 |
| Sex offender who resides within limits of city should register with chief of police, while one who resides outside city should register with county sheriff | GA-0976 |
| Sick leave pool, creation of | DM-0129 |
| Solid-waste collection, home-rule municipality may adopt ordinance requiring residential construction contractor to use franchisee selected by the City for weekly residential and commercial | JC-0035 |
| Tax increment financing, because the constitution requires the legislature to provide for tax increment financing in a reinvestment zone pursuant to general law and the implementing law does not authorize a city to extend a zone's duration, a home-rule ci | GA-0276 |
| Utility lines, home-rule municipality may provide its own laborers and equipment to extend utility lines to a private residential subdivision | JC-0368 |
| Vacation of street abutting land owned by the state and ceded to city for 99 year term, in acting to vacate street to allow federal courthouse construction, home-rule city would act as Texas authority with authority to vacate street rather than as party w | GA-0270 |
| Where city charter defines quorum as five members, removal from office of members does not reduce number required for quorum | GA-0175 |
| Without requirements from state statute or city charter, city council has discretion to determine what constitutes a council member's absence | KP-0231 |
| Zoning matter affecting territory in which member's residence is located, circumstances under which city council member might choose to abstain from voting on | DM-0130 |
| Ordinances |
| Aesthetics and maintenance of property values, home rule city may enforce against school district ordinances based upon | GA-0697 |
| Air conditioning and refrigerator maintenance, persons exempt from licensing requirements by state law are also exempt from licensing by municipal ordinance | LO97-043 |
| Alcoholic beverage sales, whether and to what extent municipal ordinance may regulate location of | DM-0289 |
| Amending ordinance, adopting another ordinance is required | GA-0130 |
| Automated enforcement equipment to identify red-light violations at roadway intersections, a city is not prohibited from adopting ordinance authorizing use of | JC-0460 |
| Bond ordinance (municipal), Attorney General cannot construe | LO98-058 |
| Cemetery that existed prior to incorporation of general law city not exempted from zoning ordinances unless cemetery was granted a variance from municipality's jurisdiction | LO90-078 |
| Certain operations within city limits, whether home rule city may enforce an ordinance which requires fees and permits from a metropolitan transit authority for | LO92-030 |
| Certified telecommunications provider excavation permit ordinance, whether chapter 283 of the Local Government Code requires that it apply to other utilities or entities | JC-0331 |
| Cigarette vending machines, home-rule city may prohibit | DM-0433 |
| City ordinance provision imposing a conditional three-year expiration period on projects, a court would likely find such an ordinance contrary to section 245.002 of the Local Government Code | GA-0980 |
| Concealed handguns, city may not prohibit carrying of under license in public park | DM-0364 |
| Construction of does not involve an abstract issue of law but an issue of law predicated upon the facts of the individual case | GA-0648 |
| Delegation to municipal utility system board of authority to manage and control system | DM-0444 |
| Disregard of traffic-control device is a criminal violation under state law; cities are prohibited from enacting ordinances that conflict with state law and therefore a city may not adopt ordinance making running a red light a civil rather than a criminal | JC-0460 |
| Due process is not violated when municipal annexation causes territory to be subject to a sexually oriented business ordinance that is less stringent than county ordinance previously in effect | DM-0399 |
| Equal dignity, an ordinance may be amended or repealed only by the adoption of an act of | GA-0431 |
| Fees for inspecting installation and relocation of bus stops, home-rule city may not impose | GA-0082 |
| Fire code, enforcing in unincorporated areas of county outside of city limits | LO97-055 |
| Garbage collection, school district located within municipality must comply with municipal ordinance on | DM-0401 |
| Impoundment of Vehicle - A court would have a basis to conclude that a municipality may not condition release of a vehicle impounded for lack of evidence of financial responsibility upon presentment of such evidence to a vehicle storage facility. | KP-0034 |
| Impoundment of Vehicles Ordinance - A home-rule municipality, and likely a general-law municipality may adopt an ordinance regarding the impoundment of vehicles for the offense of lack of financial responsibility provided that such an ordinance is not in conflict with any statute and conforms to any constitutional constraints. | KP-0034 |
| Jurisdiction of courts over violations of nuisance ordinance that occur outside city limits | JC-0025 |
| Killing of feral pigeons, a city may not by ordinance forbid but "pigeon shoot" may constitute cruelty to animals | JC-0048 |
| Library items, city council may enact ordinance making failure to return a class C misdemeanor | LO94-022 |
| Local building codes governing accessibility to building, waiver granted under article 601b, section 7.02(e), Revised Civil Statutes, does not preempt enforcement of | DM-0069 |
| Local Government Code section 229.001 may be enforced by the Attorney General | KP-0252 |
| Local Government Code subsection 229.001(a)(1) prohibition encompasses any one (or more) of the listed items | KP-0252 |
| Manufactured housing, city may regulate location but may forbid installation only if fails to meet federal standards | LO97-002 |
| Mobile and manufactured homes that are unsafe or unoccupied, city's authority to regulate as public nuisances | LO98-093 |
| Municipal drainage utility charge, school districts subject to | GA-1080 |
| Municipal juvenile curfew ordinance of Crockett, Texas constitutional on its face | LO98-111 |
| Municipal ordinance prohibiting sale of alcoholic beverages by dealer whose place of business is within 300 feet or 1,000 feet of public school, authority of general-law governing body to enact | GA-0942 |
| Municipal utility district, circumstances in which district must comply with municipal police ordinances | LO94-049 |
| Nonconsent tows, a municipality must comply with Transportation Code section 643.204’s plain-language requirements, if it regulates nonconsent tows in its territory
Nonconsent tows, the City of Victoria Code of Ordinances section 23-75 does not regulat | GA-0315 |
| On-site sewage disposal systems, a municipality may adopt by order or resolution more stringent standard than prescribed by state for | JM-1278 |
| Ordinance singling out firearm and ammunition sales circumvents Local Government Code subsection 229.001(a)(1) and is therefore preempted | KP-0252 |
| Outdoor advertising signs, regulation by city | GA-0192 |
| Outdoor displays and signs, Pawnshop Act preempts regulation by home-rule city of | DM-0253 |
| Peace officers not authorized by articles 2.12 and 2.13 of the Code of Criminal Procedure to enforce city ordinances | DM-0318 |
| Persons arrested by deputy constables for state-law violations, city council may prohibit the use of the municipal jail as a holding facility while arrested persons wait to appear before a magistrate, to post bond, or to be transported to a county facilit | GA-0166 |
| Pesticide ordinance, whether preempted by Structural Pest Control Act | DM-0221 |
| Plumbing codes, municipality may not vary "substantially" from state standards | JC-0012 |
| Plumbing installed pursuant to municipal regulations must be inspected by licensed plumbing inspector | JC-0453 |
| Plumbing regulations, cities of 5,000 or more must adopt | JC-0453 |
| Plumbing regulations, cities of fewer than 5,000 may adopt | JC-0453 |
| Preempted by state law, home-rule city ordinance prohibiting cigarette vending machines is not | DM-0433 |
| Preemption, proposed ordinance requiring businesses selling alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption to have condoms available for sale is preempted by Alcoholic Beverage Code | DM-0229 |
| Prohibition by ordinance of organized pigeon shoot may be, but is not necessarily preempted by Penal Code preemption provision unless ordinance is in conflict with cruelty to animals statute | JC-0048 |
| Prohibition on discharge of firearm by child, ordinance enacting is not preempted by state law | LO94-056 |
| Registration of installers of on-site sewage disposal systems, a municipality may adopt by order or resolution more stringent standard than prescribed by state for | JM-1278 |
| Regulation expressly prohibiting gun stores from operating in specific areas regulates transfer of firearms an is preempted by Local Government Code subsection 229.001(a)(1) | KP-0025 |
| Sale of alcoholic beverages by a dealer whose place of business is within 300 feet or 1,000 feet of a public school, authority of home-rule municipality’s governing body to enact prohibition of | GA-0962 |
| Section 361.0961 of the Health and Safety Code would likely prohibit a city ordinance adopted for solid waste management purposes that prohibited single-use plastic bags | GA-1078 |
| Section 361.0961(a)(3) of the Health and Safety Code likely prohibits a city from adopting an ordinance that assesses a fee on the sale of a single-use plastic bag. | GA-1078 |
| Section 54.012(5), Health and Safety Code, ordinance enacted under, must be encompassed within the broad ambit of "health and safety regulations," and must, in addition, have some connection to real property to which a defendant has a special relationship | GA-0267 |
| Sexually oriented business located within specified distance of church in another city, municipality may enforce ordinance against | JC-0485 |
| Solid-waste collection, home-rule municipality may adopt ordinance requiring residential construction contractor to use franchisee selected by the City for weekly residential and commercial | JC-0035 |
| Statutory conflict of interest provisions cumulative of municipal charters and ordinances | LO96-049 |
| Street vendors, Type A general-law city's authority to regulate or prohibit by ordinance | JC-0145 |
| Subdivision plats in extraterritorial jurisdiction, municipal authority over | GA-0648 |
| Submerged land, municipality may enforce police-power ordinances against privately owned | LO98-114 |
| Taxicab ordinance, council of governments is not exempt from ordinance because it is a political subdivision | JC-0218 |
| Taxicab ordinance, council of governments is not exempt from ordinance because of its contract with Texas Department of Health | JC-0218 |
| Term "two designated lanes," as used in section 545.0651(b) of the Transportation Code, which authorizes municipality to restrict certain vehicles to particular highway lanes, means precisely two and may not be construed to mean "two or more" | JC-0551 |
| Tobacco, home-rule city ordinance licensing tobacco product retailers preempted by state law | DM-0182 |
| Tree preservation ordinances, a court could find a regulatory taking if all economically beneficial or productive use of land is denied or if the ordinance unreasonably interferes with a landowner's right to use and enjoy their property | KP-0155 |
| Purchasing and Contracts |
| Ad valorem taxes, contract between a municipal governing body and another taxing unit or an appraisal district board to collect,
| GA-0724 |
| Assessment for public improvements, contract under Intergovernmental Contract Act between municipality and another local government to collect assessment under Public Improvement District Assessment Act | GA-0724 |
| Auctioneering services, city may determine whether they are "professional services" exempt from competitive bidding requirements | DM-0106 |
| Automated information systems, purchase by local governments through state catalogue purchasing procedure | DM-0350 |
| Bingo equipment purchased by municipal senior citizen community center, sales-tax exemption | GA-0173 |
| Capital improvements and impact fees, authority of municipality to contract to construct and charge within second municipality | DM-0319 |
| Collection by private vendors of debts and accounts receivable, statute authorizing is not applicable to suggested fines absent court order | JC-0516 |
| Competitive bidding laws apply to expenditure of community development block grant funds | DM-0331 |
| Competitive bidding, necessity for when there is failure by municipality to require performance bond on developer participation contract | LO95-010 |
| Competitive proposals, statutory requirements regarding do not apply to competitive proposal process authorized by other law | JC-0326 |
| Consultation services contract with municipality, absent statutory authorization a county attorney in official capacity may not enter into | JC-0034 |
| Consultation services to municipality for fee, county attorney subject to Professional Prosecutors Act may not contract in private capacity to provide | JC-0034 |
| Contract, whether mayor or city manager may bind city where city council has exclusive authority to enter into contracts on behalf of city | JC-0154 |
| Estoppel against city in exercise of governmental function by unauthorized acts of city officers or employees | JC-0154 |
| Excess or surplus insurance coverage, municipality's purchase of is not exempt from competitive bidding requirements | DM-0070 |
| Exemption from competitive bidding, municipalities may procure services through competitive bidding even if such services qualify for an | DM-0106 |
| Local engineering firms, home-rule city is prohibited from giving preference to in awarding contracts | LO93-073 |
| Local governments may not enter into interlocal contract to agree to deny utility and landfill services to customers who are delinquent in payments to other parties to the agreement | JC-0219 |
| Minority business enterprises, requirements for municipal program to award public contracts to | DM-0234 |
| Performance bond required for cost of improvements to be constructed for municipality pursuant to a developer participation contract, amount of | LO95-010 |
| Privileged parking provisions of Transportation Code chapter 681 - A court would likely conclude that a political subdivision is not authorized to contract with a private business to enforce the privileged parking provisions of chapter 681. | KP-0033 |
| Professional services exempt from competitive bidding, municipality has discretion to determine whether contract is for | JC-0326 |
| Security guard contracts, city may not require bidders for to provide health insurance benefits to their employees because the requirement does not relate to the quality of security guard services | JM-1213 |
| Selection of "sole broker of record," municipality's selection of is not exempt from competitive bidding requirements | DM-0070 |
| Selection of a company as a construction manager-at-risk if a related company has been selected as the design engineer that will also perform the inspection, testing, and verification services necessary for acceptance of the project | GA-0782 |
| Tax increment financing, a city may use a tax increment fund to pay a developer for environmental remediation, renovation, or facade preservation if they are "project costs" | GA-0305 |
| Tax increment financing, a tax increment fund is a municipal fund within the meaning of chapter 252 of the Local Government Code and chapter 252's competitive bidding requirements may apply to expenditures from the tax increment fund; if an expenditure is | GA-0305 |
| Telecommunications services, agreement between city and private company jointly to provide to public prohibited | DM-0391 |
| Transfer public land to private party using industrial development corporation as an intermediary, city may not | GA-0004 |
| Transportation Code section 681.0101 - A court would likely conclude that section 681.0101 does not authorize a political subdivision to appoint a private business to enforce the privileged parking provisions of chapter 681 because a private business is not a "person" under section 681.0101 | KP-0033 |
| Taxes and Fees |
| Abate delinquent ad valorem taxes, municipality has no authority to | LO95-090 |
| Ad valorem taxes, charter provision requiring voter approval before imposing | GA-1073 |
| Additional sales and use tax, city may not use to finance homestead exemption | DM-0218 |
| Air conditioning and refrigeration contractor licensed by Department of Licensing and Regulation, city may not impose local licensing taxes, occupation taxes, or bond requirements on | JM-1195 |
| Air conditioning and refrigeration contractors, municipality's authority to impose registration fee on | LO95-028 |
| Ballot language for city election to impose sales and use tax for economic development and reduce sales and use tax adopted to reduce property taxes | LO93-104 |
| Beach user fees, application of sales tax | JC-0081 |
| Chief appraiser, initial determination about eligibility of tax exemptions rests with | GA-0827 |
| Comptroller’s interpretation of single nonprofit trust to mean that the trust can be used only for the purpose of paying insurance premiums is reasonable; however, limiting use of the funds to only paying premiums and prohibiting trust funds from being used to cover other expenses in furtherance of the trust’s purpose is contrary to the statute | GA-0739 |
| Construction of sanitary sewer lines in existing residential subdivision, municipality may use sales taxes levied under Development Corporation Act if board of directors makes finding | LO95-072 |
| Contract with voters; representations and statements preceding an election for creation of Advanced Transportation District as limiting municipality, county, district use of sales and use tax for streetcar project | GA-0968 |
| Development Corporation Act of 1979, section 4B sales and use tax proceeds are public funds subject to article III, section 52 of Texas Constitution | JC-0118 |
| Development Corporation Act of 1979, section 4B sales and use tax proceeds may only be used for project costs; they may not be used for "promotional purposes" unrelated to projects | JC-0118 |
| Development Corporation Act of 1979, use of section 4B sales and use tax proceeds for park project not specifically approved at tax election | JC-0400 |
| Drainage charge adopted under Municipal Drainage Utility Systems Act, criteria for | LO97-095 |
| Economic development tax and additional sales and use tax in city, proposals for adopting may not be combined in single ballot proposition | LO96-110 |
| Election proposition limits use of Development Corporation Act of 1979, section 4B sales and use tax collected in Gun Barrel City to business development projects | JC-0494 |
| Election proposition, if authorizes use of Development Corporation Act of 1979, section 4B, sales and use tax proceeds for access road to undeveloped commercially zoned property | JC-0488 |
| Elections implementing a tax freeze under article VIII, section 1-b(h) of the Texas Constitution, home-rule charter provisions limiting frequency of special elections on voter-initiated ordinances may apply to | GA-0269 |
| Homestead exemption, municipality may not increase if increase would impair municipality's contract to pay bondholders with ad valorem tax revenues | DM-0031 |
| Homestead tax exemption establishing floor greater than amount set in Texas Constitution article VIII § 1-b(e) - authority of home-rule city to adopt | KP-0215 |
| Hotel occupancy tax revenue, whether a particular proposed expenditure of is a permissible use is for the municipality's governing body to determine in the first instance | GA-0124 |
| Hotel occupancy tax revenues, city which collects in excess of $2 million in most recent calendar year not restricted by allocation formula dedicating 50 percent to advertising and promotion of tourism and conventions | JC-0105 |
| Hotel occupancy tax, authority of municipality with population of fewer than 35,000 to impose such tax in its extraterritorial jurisdiction when the combined rate of state, county, and municipal taxes would exceed 15 percent | GA-0408 |
| Hotel occupancy tax, whether city may collect in area annexed for limited purposes pursuant to a strategic partnership agreement | LO97-005 |
| Hotel-motel tax revenues, whether city may spend on George Bush Library at Texas A&M University | DM-0394 |
| Impact fee imposed by political subdivision, school district is not required to pay unless board consents to such payment by entering into contract with political subdivision | GA-0637 |
| Impact fee, cash that municipality requires subdivision developer to deposit in escrow to cover costs of future pavement construction is not (Overruled by Court Decision, see Desoto Wildwood Dev., Inc. v. City of Lewisville, 184 S.W.3d 814 (Tex. App.-Fort Worth 2006, no pet.) | LO97-0048 |
| Impact fees for water and wastewater infrastructure in El Paso and its extraterritorial jurisdiction, city council may impose and may delegate ministerial duty to collect to the Public Service Board that acts as its agent for operating water utilities | GA-0434 |
| Impact fees, assessment and collection of impact fees adopted after June 20, 1987
| GA-0577 |
| Impact fees, authority of municipality to charge within another municipality | DM-0319 |
| Impact fees, authority to grant a credit for a water line project on sewer impact fees | GA-0788 |
| Impact fees, municipal water rights fees as | GA-0482 |
| Meaning of the term "school district" within context of Local Government Code subsection 395.022(b) concerning impact fees | GA-0984 |
| Municipal drainage utility charge, school districts subject to | GA-1080 |
| Municipal hotel occupancy tax revenue - If expenditure is for one of the specified uses listed in Tax Code section 351.101, municipality may expend municipal hotel occupancy tax revenue in the direct promotion of tourism and the convention and hotel industry | KP-0131 |
| New abatement agreement must fully comply with chapter 312 of the Tax Code | GA-0304 |
| Parking fees at municipal airport, holder of special parking permit for disabled not required to pay in certain circumstances | LO96-055 |
| Premiums paid on group health, accident, and life insurance policies by a single nonprofit trust established to provide coverage for employees of municipalities, counties or hospital districts, subsection 222.002(c)(5) of the Insurance Code excludes from the imposition of insurance premium taxes | GA-0739 |
| Property tax freeze for persons with disabilities or persons sixty-five years of age or older, adopted by a home-rule municipality under article VIII, section 1-b(h) of Texas Constitution may not be repealed by an election called pursuant to a petition of | GA-0222 |
| Property tax freeze for persons with disabilities or persons sixty-five years of age or older, article VIII, section 1-b(h) of the Texas Constitution does not permit a county, a city or town, or a junior college district implementing that provision to use | GA-0222 |
| Property tax freeze for persons with disabilities or persons sixty-five years of age or older, the tax limitation in article VIII, section 1-b(h) of the Texas Constitution is available to a city that has not previously enacted a residence homestead tax exemption | GA-0363 |
| Property tax freeze, article VIII, section 1-b(h) of the Texas Constitution authorizes a governing body of a home-rule municipality, on its own motion and without a petition from the city's voters, to call an election to adopt a tax freeze for persons who | GA-0222 |
| Racetrack admission fee collected by Harris County to distribute to municipalities constitutes occupation tax because municipalities have no authority to regulate racetrack outside their jurisdiction | JC-0001 |
| Rate reduction on sales tax levied by city for industrial development corporation may not be applied to bonds issued prior to date of election | DM-0137 |
| Sales and use tax, city may not adopt at a tax rate not expressly provided by statute | DM-0218 |
| Sales and use taxes authorized under separate statutory provisions, city may adopt in same election but proposal to adopt may not be combined in single ballot proposition | DM-0218 |
| Sales and use taxes, authority of city to levy upon withdrawing from transit authority | LO96-073 |
| Sales tax election to fund venue project, city may not hold earlier than one year from date of previous sales tax election | LO98-074 |
| Sales tax rebate, if a business collects and remits municipal sales taxes are required by law, the city's rebate of those taxes to the business does not violate article III, section 55 or the Texas Constitution | GA-0071 |
| Section 4B, article 5190.6 of the Development Corporation Act of 1979 sales and use tax, Gun Barrel City Economic Development Corporation may use to fund youth football field | GA-0265 |
| Tax abatement agreement, prior tax abatement agreement concerning specific property does not preclude a municipality from abating taxes on different personal property at the same location | GA-0304 |
| Tax exempt property, tax exempt status of leasehold interest in | GA-0827 |
| Tax increment financing reinvestment zone, authority of home-rule city to extend a zone's duration beyond the termination date established in the ordinance designating the zone | GA-0276 |
| The Comptroller's conclusion that voters in areas annexed for limited purposes under Local Government Code section 43.0751 must be given the opportunity to vote on the imposition of fire control and crime control district taxes before a municipality my impose them on those areas is reasonable and will likely be shown deference by the courts. | GA-0987 |
| Transportation Code section 502.403, county is required to send a portion of revenue generated by county fee for child safety to municipalities under | KP-0068 |
| Type C general-law municipality's authority to levy ad valorem taxes | KP-0028 |
| Urban Renewal Law's tax increment financing provisions were unconstitutional when adopted in 1977 but validated by reenactment in 1987 | JC-0373 |
| Visitors information center, city may expend municipal hotel tax funds for improvement of | LO92-051 |
| Water line installation impact fee, municipality must comply with subchapter C of chapter 395 of the Local Government Code before enacting or imposing | LO93-056 |
