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Dual Office Holding; Incompatibility of Offices; Municipalities; Home Rule; Special Districts and Authorities

JC-0225

Texas Attorney General Opinion

Common-law doctrine of incompatibility, no authority under home rule power to exempt city council's appointments to governing body of another political subdivision from|Home rule city lacks authority to exempt city council's appointments to governing body of another political subdivision from common-law doctrine of incompatibility|Home rule city lacks authority to exempt from common-law doctrine of incompatibility city council's appointments to board of Authority

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