{"id":1117,"date":"2018-09-25T21:41:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2018\/09\/25\/tx-attorney-general-opinion-request-counties-and-county-truck-weight-enforcement\/"},"modified":"2018-09-25T21:41:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T21:41:00","slug":"tx-attorney-general-opinion-request-counties-and-county-truck-weight-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/tx-attorney-general-opinion-request-counties-and-county-truck-weight-enforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"TX Attorney General Opinion Request. Counties and County Truck Weight Enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Requestor:<\/strong>\u00a0Liberty County Attorney<\/p>\n<p><strong>Questions for the Texas Attorney General to answer:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Can County law enforcement enforce weight restrictions or do they need DPS certification?<\/li>\n<li>Can DPS revoke a law enforcement&#8217;s authority to enforce weight restrictions that were granted by a county commissioners court?<\/li>\n<li>Does a county commissioner court&#8217;s grant of authority equal to authority under Texas Transportation Code\u00a7 621.402(e)?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/opinions\/opinions\/51paxton\/rq\/2018\/pdf\/RQ0251KP.pdf?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">RQ-0251-KP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Requestor:<\/strong>\u00a0Liberty County Attorney<\/p>\n<p><strong>Questions for the Texas Attorney General to answer:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Can County law enforcement enforce weight restrictions or do they need DPS certification?<\/li>\n<li>Can DPS revoke a law enforcement&#8217;s authority to enforce weight restrictions that were granted by a county commissioners court?<\/li>\n<li>Does a county commissioner court&#8217;s grant of authority equal to authority under Texas Transportation Code\u00a7 621.402(e)?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/opinions\/opinions\/51paxton\/rq\/2018\/pdf\/RQ0251KP.pdf?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">RQ-0251-KP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,22,30,5,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-issue","category-attorney-general","category-local-government","category-roads","category-trucking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}