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Local Government Code §152.011
In force on Aug 18, 2025 · this text took effect Sep 01, 1987 · same as today's text
AMOUNT SET BY COMMISSIONERS COURT
The commissioners court of a county shall set the amount of the compensation, office and travel expenses, and all other allowances for county and precinct officers and employees who are paid wholly from county funds.
History: Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
Source: the Legislature's file server, seen Nov 08, 2026.
Every version on file
- Effective Sep 01, 1987 · seen Nov 2026–Nov 2026
Attorney General opinions that cite it
- KP-0522 (Aug 18, 2025): Miscellaneous questions regarding commissioners court authority over employees of local elected officials
- KP-0512 (Mar 05, 2025): Whether a commissioners court can rescind and readopt a different county budget after the annual budget was approved
- KP-0413 (Feb 11, 2022): Whether a payment to county officials from funds received under the American Rescue Plan Act required notice as set forth in section 152.013 of the Local Government Code
- KP-0374 (Dec 22, 2020): Whether a constable working as a deputy sheriff may be paid for work under the Justice Assistance Grant
- KP-0292 (Sep 11, 2019): Authority to establish salaries of the staff of a multicounty court at law
- KP-0235 (Jul 23, 2018): County payment of expenses for contracted workers in specific circumstances {RQ-0238-KP) You ask whether the commissioners court of Newton County ("County") has authority to spend public funds to pay certain expenses, including transportation and tuition, for an individual who is not a County employee. 1 Your question arises from the following facts: Following Hurricane Harvey, grant money made employment available in Southeast Texas through Workforce Solutions. Newton County contracted with Workforce to receive a number of those employees. One of those contracted workers went to work for the
- GA-1005 (Nov 15, 2012): The appointment and compensation of temporary justices ofthe peace
- GA-0857 (Nov 15, 2010): Authority of a commissioners court with regard to working hours, overtime and compensatory time, and timekeeping by county employees
- GA-0700 (Sep 24, 2008): Reimbursement for the court reporter ofthe 506th District Court Superseded by statute Tex. Gov't Code § 52.057(f)
- GA-0639 (Jan 03, 2008): Whether the County Assessor-Collector may award additional compensation to her salaried deputies from monies collected under the Certificate of Title Act, section 501.138, Transportation Code
- GA-0638 (Jan 02, 2008): Whether, withoutthe approval ofthe commissioners court, a county clerk may supplement her deputies' salaries with money from the clerk's records management and preservation fund
- GA-0620 (Oct 26, 2007): Procedures that a commissioners court must follow in the annual budget process in regard to salaries and personal expenses for each elected county and precinct officer
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