Texas Government - Local Government Questions with complete solution 2023/2024
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Texas Government - Local Government Questions with complete solution 2023/2024County, Municipal (city), and special district - correct answer Local Government includes Three levels
Local Government - correct answer includes public safety services including: police, fire departments, education is...
Texas Government - Local Government
County, Municipal (city), and special district - correct answer Local Government includes Three levels
Local Government - correct answer includes public safety services including: police, fire departments, education isd's school districts, water and sewage systems, roads and bridges, garbage disposal, parks, libraries, and healthcare for the homeless
Local Governments - correct answer level closest to the people
Local Government Election - correct answer Lowest voter turnout of all election types
Texas Constitution - correct answer detailed regarding local government
County Government - correct answer Texas Constitution calls counties "administrative arms of the state government"
Structure of County Government - correct answer Counties do not have home rule charters and cannot adopt ordinances
County policy-making - correct answer No single executive or officer controls or is accountable for the county's policy-making personnel
County Populations - correct answer Range from fewer than 100 (Loving County) to more than 4 million (Harris County)
254 - correct answer _____ Counties in state of Texas are mandated to be governed in the same manner despite geographical and population diversity 4 year - correct answer Commissioners court and all elected county officials serve ____ ____ terms
Commissioner's Court - correct answer Strictly administrative only. Responsible for county, state and national elections
- 4 precincts with 4 commissioners and 1 county judge
County Government acts for the state - correct answer appoints administrators and personnel, securing right-of-way for highways, law enforcement, registering births, deaths, marriages and divorces, housing state district courts, registering motor vehicles, build and maintain roads and bridges, record land titles and deeds, collecting some state taxes and fees
Ordinance making authority - correct answer County governments do not have this authority
Texas Legislature - correct answer New county issues require clarification of authority from ___________
___________.
Precincts - correct answer Country divided into 4 _______
Commissioner, commissioners - correct answer _____ head of the ___________ court
County voters - correct answer are divided into 4 districts and elect in each district a Justice of the Peace,
a Constable, a District Judge, an Auditor, a county commissioners and a county judge, a sheriff, a district clerk, a county clerk, a surveyor, a district attorney, a tax assessment collector, and a treasurer
commissioners court appoint - correct answer Road crew, Home demonstration agent, county agriculture
agent, health officer,
district attorney - correct answer prosecutes felony criminal offenses occurring in the county
- has sole discretion in determining whether to pursue a criminal conviction or not
-decides what punishments to seek, if any, including whether to pursue the death penalty in a capital murder case.
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