{"id":131,"date":"2015-02-27T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/02\/27\/ag-opinion-6-things-to-know-about-transportation-reinvestment-zones\/"},"modified":"2015-02-27T17:45:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T17:45:00","slug":"ag-opinion-6-things-to-know-about-transportation-reinvestment-zones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/ag-opinion-6-things-to-know-about-transportation-reinvestment-zones\/","title":{"rendered":"AG Opinion: 6 Things to Know about Transportation Reinvestment Zones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Opinion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/opinions\/opinions\/51paxton\/op\/2015\/kp0004.pdf\">KP-004<\/a>, tells us without a constitutional amendment, a county probably cannot:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create a County Energy Transportation Reinvestment Zone<\/li>\n<li>Create a County Transportation Reinvestment Zone<\/li>\n<li>Create a County Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The AG rational is that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Article VIII, Section 1(a) doesn&#8217;t permit counties to create these zones<\/li>\n<li>Because the Constitution requires taxation to be equal and uniform<\/li>\n<li>And, a county reinvestment zone would treat property inside the zone and outside the zone differently<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Opinion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/opinions\/opinions\/51paxton\/op\/2015\/kp0004.pdf\">KP-004<\/a>, tells us without a constitutional amendment, a county probably cannot:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create a County Energy Transportation Reinvestment Zone<\/li>\n<li>Create a County Transportation Reinvestment Zone<\/li>\n<li>Create a County Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The AG rational is that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Article VIII, Section 1(a) doesn&#8217;t permit counties to c&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,19,10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-legal-trend","category-legislative-trend","category-local","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","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=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}