Repeal of a road tax may be accomplished by an election to repeal ordered by the commissioners court pursuant to Transportation Code section 256.053.
Under Transportation Code section 502.010, a county may refuse to register a vehicle for failure to pay a fine or other specified county debt or for failure to appear regardless of whether a county has an information sharing contract with the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Municipal hotel occupancy tax revenue may be used to repair a visitor information center owned and operated by a chamber of commerce if expenditures directly enhance and promote tourism and the convention and hotel industry as required by Tax Code section 351.101.
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.