{"id":988,"date":"2018-03-21T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T19:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2018\/03\/21\/tx-attorney-general-opinion-big-trucks-overweight-truck-enforcement-4-key-points\/"},"modified":"2018-03-21T19:14:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T19:14:00","slug":"tx-attorney-general-opinion-big-trucks-overweight-truck-enforcement-4-key-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/tx-attorney-general-opinion-big-trucks-overweight-truck-enforcement-4-key-points\/","title":{"rendered":"TX Attorney General Opinion. Big Trucks. Overweight Truck Enforcement. 4 Key Points."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Texas Attorney General Opinion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/opinions\/opinions\/51paxton\/op\/2018\/kp0189.pdf?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">KP-0189<\/a>, answers this question from the Liberty County Attorney:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 1\">\n<p>Whether an elected constable and deputy constables may simultaneously serve under the sheriff, specifically to perform tasks related to the duties of a weight- enforcement officer under Transportation Code chapter 621\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does the Opinion say?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Sheriff&#8217;s deputy is specifically listed in Chapter 621 of the Transportation Code to serve as wieght-enforcement officers &amp; there is no prohibition of that person also being a constable or constables deputy for 3 reasons:\n<ul>\n<li>No Statute prohibits simultaneous service of constables<\/li>\n<li>The Texas Constitution does not prohibit a person from serving as constable or deputy constable and the position of deputy sheriff<\/li>\n<li>Common law doesn&#8217;t prohibit also serving as a deputy sheriff weight-enfrocement officer because a sheriff&#8217;s deputy is not considered an office.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Texas Attorney General Opinion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/opinions\/opinions\/51paxton\/op\/2018\/kp0189.pdf?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">KP-0189<\/a>, answers this question from the Liberty County Attorney:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 1\">\n<p>Whether an elected constable and deputy constables may simultaneously serve under the sheriff, specifically to perform tasks related to the duties of a weight- enforcement officer under Transportation Code chapter 621\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does the Opinion say?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Sheriff&#8217;s deputy is specifically listed in Chapter 621 of the Transportation Code to serve as wieght-enforcement officers &amp; there is no prohibition of\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,10,30,5,34,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attorney-general","category-legislative-trend","category-local-government","category-roads","category-transportation-safety","category-trucking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","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=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}