{"id":1721,"date":"2020-05-14T20:43:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T20:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2020-05-15T00:47:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T00:47:04","slug":"tx-attorney-general-opinion-covid-local-governments-commandeering-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/tx-attorney-general-opinion-covid-local-governments-commandeering-property\/","title":{"rendered":"TX Attorney General Opinion. COVID + Local Governments Commandeering Property"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can local government commandeer property during an emergency in Texas?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No. Not going to happen without changing some laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What law needs to change? Government Code section 418.108<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can the Governor commandeer property during a disaster? Yes, Government Code subsection 418.017(c) specifically allows the Governor to commandeer property<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/opinion-files\/opinion\/2020\/kp-0304.pdf\">KP-0304 (2020)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can local government commandeer property during an emergency in Texas? No. Not going to happen without changing some laws. What law needs to change? Government Code section 418.108 Can the Governor commandeer property during a disaster? Yes, Government Code subsection 418.017(c) specifically allows the Governor to commandeer property KP-0304 (2020)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1721"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1728,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions\/1728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}