{"id":296,"date":"2015-09-17T18:36:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T18:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/09\/17\/ag-opinion-new-request-to-track-disposition-of-county-revenue-from-local-child-safety-fee\/"},"modified":"2015-09-17T18:36:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T18:36:00","slug":"ag-opinion-new-request-to-track-disposition-of-county-revenue-from-local-child-safety-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/ag-opinion-new-request-to-track-disposition-of-county-revenue-from-local-child-safety-fee\/","title":{"rendered":"AG Opinion: New Request to Track: Disposition of County revenue from Local Child Safety Fee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ellis County Commissioners are considering a county child safty fee of $1.50.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Question posed to the Attorney General:\u00a0<\/strong>What can a county do with this local county safety registration fee?<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the beef?\u00a0<\/strong>This is all about revenue sharing. Do the counties need to share with municipalities?<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s happening with this revenue now?<\/strong>\u00a02 approaches after deducting the county administrtive costs:<\/p>\n<p>(1) \u00a0the county may use revenue generated from the fee for purposes permitted by Article\u00a0102.014(g), Code of Criminal Procedure, without sending any portion of the fee revenue to the municipalities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(2) the county also gets to\u00a0deduct\u00a0fee revenue proportional to the percentage of county residents living in the unincorporated areas, the remainder of the fee revenue must be se t to the municipalities according to their population\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/opinions\/opinions\/51paxton\/rq\/2015\/pdf\/RQ0052KP.pdf\">Opinion Request RQ-000520KP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ellis County Commissioners are considering a county child safty fee of $1.50.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Question posed to the Attorney General:\u00a0<\/strong>What can a county do with this local county safety registration fee?<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the beef?\u00a0<\/strong>This is all about revenue sharing. Do the counties need to share with municipalities?<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s happening with this revenue now?<\/strong>\u00a02 approaches after deducting the county administrtive costs:<\/p>\n<p>(1) \u00a0the county may use revenue generated from the fee for purposes permitted by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attorney-general","category-local-government","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","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=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}