Government Final 2
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- Municipal corp.
- a city.
- Home rule
- right of a local govt to govern itself rather than state govern it.
- tx associacation of counties
- professional assoc. for county govts
- county judge
- elected official who is chief administrator of county govt,commisioners court, and judiciary
- commissioners court
- legislative body of a county in tx.
- county commissioner
- elected official on a county legislative body/commisioners court
- District attorney/ criminal DA
- elected official who prosecutes criminal cases
- county attorney
- legal officer for county govt and criminal prosecutor
- Sherriff
- elected official who serves as chief law enforcement officer in a county
- county clerk
- elected official who serves as the clerk for commissioners court and county records
- district clerk
- elected offical responsible for keeping records of of district courts
- county tax assessor-collector
- EO who collects taxes for county...and other local govts
- county treasurer
- EO serves as money manager for county govt
- county auditor
- official appointed by a district judge to audit county finances
- local govt code
- tx statutory code containing state laws about local govts
- general ordinance-making authority
- legal right to adopt ordinances covering a wide array of subject areas,authority that cities have but counties dont
- general law cities
- less than 5000 residents governed by a general state law rather than a locally adopted charter
- weak mayor council
- form of city govt where mayor has no more power than council members
- strong mayor council
- mayor has strong powers to run city by hiring/managing/firing staff and controlling exec. departments, also is on council.
- council manager
- city council and mayor hire a manager to run the city
- city commission
- elected members serve on leg. body and also head administrators of city programs
- tx municipal league
- prof. association and lobbying arm for city govts
- annexation
- enlargement of citys corporate limits by surrounding territory into city
- extraterrestorial jurisdiction
- area outside a citys boundaries overwhich the city may exercise limited control
- at-large-by-place
- all positions on council filled by city wide elections,candidates must choose which place to run for
- charter school
- public school sanctioned with agreement that allows programs to operate outside usual rules