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· 9/24/1986

Sexton v. Mount Olivet Cemetery Ass'n

Citations

  • 720 S.W.2d 129
  • 1986 Tex. App. LEXIS 9259

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • stating that after adjudicative hearing before Commissioner, Department issued order that approved Mount Olivet Plan under section la
  • stating that after adjudicative hearing before Commissioner, Department issued order that approved Mount Olivet Plan under section 1a
  • “We must enforce the statute ‘as written’ and ‘refrain from rewriting text that lawmakers chose.’”
  • “[T]he Legislature generally intends that an agency should have by implication such authority as may be necessary to carry out the specific power delegated, in order that the statutory purpose may be achieved.”
  • agencies have no inherent authority
  • agencies have no inherent authority

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Judges: Powers, Brady, Carroll

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