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Counties and County Commissioners Courts; Municipalities; Real Property

KP-0324

Texas Attorney General Opinion

Emergency powers granted by Government Code chapter do not authorize local governmental entities operating under a declared disaster to independently rewrite state law such as Property Code chapter 24 governing evictions.

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