Untitled Texas Attorney General Opinion

Office of tQe $Zlttornep@eneral &ate of tEexa$ DAN MORALES December 31,199l ATTORNEY GENERAL Honorable Gene Green Opinion No. DM-71 chairman Jurisprudence Committee Re: Authority of public housing authority Texas State Senate to regulate tenants’ legal possession of P. 0. Box 12068 firearms (RQ-150) Austin, Texas 78711 Dear Senator Green: You ask several questions regarding whether a municipal housing authority may adopt a rule under which a tenant of a public housing project it operates would be. evicted “if the tenant possessed a firearm, including eviction for the possession of a firearm…