{"id":886,"date":"2017-10-17T19:49:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T19:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2017\/10\/17\/tx-a-g-opinion-enforcing-big-truck-weight-enforcement-on-the-gulf-coast\/"},"modified":"2017-10-17T19:49:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T19:49:00","slug":"tx-a-g-opinion-enforcing-big-truck-weight-enforcement-on-the-gulf-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/tx-a-g-opinion-enforcing-big-truck-weight-enforcement-on-the-gulf-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"TX A.G. Opinion: Enforcing Big Truck Weight Enforcement on the Gulf Coast."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The opinion requestor:<\/strong>\u00a0Liberty County Attorney<\/p>\n<p><strong>The issue that the Liberty County Attorney wants the Attorney General to answer:<\/strong>\u00a0Whether\u00a0an elected constable and his deputies may simultaneously serve under the sheriff, specifically to perform tasks related to the duties of a weight enforcement officer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why Liberty County Attorney thinks an elected constable can also serve as a weight enforcement officer?<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Article XVI, Section 40 oft he Texas Constitution does not prohibit an elected constable from simultaneously serving as a deputy sheriff to be a weight enforcement officer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/opinions\/opinions\/51paxton\/rq\/2017\/pdf\/RQ0187KP.pdf?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">RQ-0187-KP<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The opinion requestor:<\/strong>\u00a0Liberty County Attorney<\/p>\n<p><strong>The issue that the Liberty County Attorney wants the Attorney General to answer:<\/strong>\u00a0Whether\u00a0an elected constable and his deputies may simultaneously serve under the sheriff, specifically to perform tasks related to the duties of a weight enforcement officer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why Liberty County Attorney thinks an elected constable can also serve as a weight enforcement officer?<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Article XVI, Section 40 oft he Texas Constitution does not prohibit an elected constable\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,22,30,23,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-legislation","category-attorney-general","category-local-government","category-ports","category-trucking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","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=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}