Property Code chapter 203 authorizes the county attorney to independently enforce land use restrictions in counties with populations over 200,000
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Application of Business and Commerce Code subsection 20.05(a)(5) to a self-funded plan with a reference-based-pricing program that does not utilize a provider network
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Use of public improvement district assessments in particular circumstances
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Ector County’s compliance with chapter 387 of the Local Government Code, regarding creation of a county assistance district
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Driver’s license requirement to operate golf carts on public road
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The Utilities Code gives “complete authority” to the Public Utility Commission to adopt and enforce rules relating to reliability and accounting for the production and delivery of electricity among market participants. Specifically, subsection 39.151(d) of the Utilities Code authorizes the Public Utility Commission to oversee and investigate the independent organization (ERCOT) as necessary to ensure ERCOT’s accountability and to ensure that it adequately performs its functions and duties.
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Application of the Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act on an individual’s right of access to clergy due to the COVID-19 pandemic
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Constitutionality of paying a one-time bonus to administrative staff of county’s justices of the peace
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County judge’s brother’s candidacy for sheriff does not violate nepotism or conflict-of-interest statutes in described circumstances
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Pursuant to subsection 38.001(f) of the Education Code, the Legislature provided that a student who has not received the immunizations required by law “for reasons of conscience, including because of the person’s religious beliefs, may be excluded from school in times of emergency or epidemic declared by the commissioner of public health.” Read in context, a court likely would conclude that this exception does not permit exclusion of students who lack vaccinations unrelated to an existing "epidemic" contemplated by subsection 38.001(f).