Home-Rule Cities in Texas Are Sometimes Confronted with State Statutes

question 6

Multiple Choice

Home-rule cities in Texas are sometimes confronted with state statutes enacted to restrict their self-governing power and special authority.It is unconstitutional,however,for the legislature to pass a law that targets one specific local governmental entity.The legislature gets around this restriction with regard to limiting specific home-rule cities by

• A)passing laws that apply to cities in a given population bracket.
• B)calling on the governor to use his plenary power to order the city to cease and desist the activity in question.
• C)enacting a amendment to the Texas Constitution (which supersedes statutory law)limiting the activity in question.
• D)petitioning the Texas delegation to Congress to enact federal legislation limiting the activity in question..
• E)requesting a writ of mandamus from the Texas Supreme Court ordering the home-rule city in question to cease the activity the legislation deems inappropriate.

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