Legal Opinion
Opinion No.
Texas Attorney General Reports
Decided December 31, 1991Published
1Opinion of the Court
Honorable Gene Green Chairman Jurisprudence Committee Texas State Senate P. O. Box 12068 Austin, Texas 78711
Re: Authority of public housing authority to regulate tenants' legal possession of firearms (RQ-150)
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 found in the tenant's home."1 You ask first whether section 215.001 of the Local Government Code would restrict such…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- English v. General Electric Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1990
- Glidden Company v. Aetna Casualty & Surety CompanyTexas Supreme Court · 1956
- Housing Authority v. City of Los AngelesCalifornia Supreme Court · 1952
- State Ex Rel. Great Falls Housing Authority v. City of Great FallsMontana Supreme Court · 1940
- O'KEEFE v. DunnNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1965
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