Legal Opinion
Opinion No.
Texas Attorney General Reports
Decided July 26, 1990Published
1Opinion of the Court
Honorable Randy M. Phillips Lipscomb County Attorney Box 348 Booker, Texas 79005
Re: Authority of a county to pay its employees who are in debted to the county for property taxes (RQ-1826)
Dear Mr. Phillips:
You advise that certain county employees are delinquent in paying ad valorem taxes owed to the county, and that these employees are making periodic payments on the taxes owed. You ask whether section 154.025 of the Local Government Code prohibits the payment of salaries of county employees or elected officials who owe taxes to the county if the employees or elected officials have made…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Price v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1926
- Rains v. Mercantile Nat. Bank at DallasCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1945
- Brooks v. BrooksCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1974
- William J. Rochelle, Jr., Trustee in Bankruptcy of Major Appliance Company, Inc. v. City of Dallas, TexasCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1959