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Texas has a total of 254 counties, by far the largest number of counties of any state. Counties in Texas have limited regulatory (ordinance) authority. [1] Counties also have much less legal power than home rule municipalities. They can only pass ordinances (local laws with penalties for violations) in cases where the Texas statutes have given ...
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Local government; District of Columbia government ... District of Norfolk: Virginia — 1801 1802 District of Albemarle: ... District of Texas: D. Tex. December 29 ...
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Category: Local government in Texas. ... School districts in Texas (8 C, 11 P, 1 F) T. Texas Association of Regional Councils (24 P) Texas city councils (2 C, 15 P)
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In Texas, there are two forms of municipal government: general-law and home-rule. A general-law municipality has no charter and is limited to the specific powers granted by the general laws of the state. Home-rule municipalities have a charter and derive the "full power of local self-government" [6] from the Constitution of Texas. A general-law ...
While only about 20% of Texas counties are generally located within the Houston—Dallas—San Antonio—Austin areas, they serve a majority of the state's population with approximately 22,000,000 inhabitants. Texas was originally divided into municipalities (municipios in Spanish), a unit of local government under Spanish and Mexican rule.