TEEX Code Enforcement Questions with Detailed Verified Answers

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TEEX Code Enforcement Questions
with Detailed Verified Answers


Question: Absolute Immunity


Ans: The status of a person or body that places one beyond the law and
makes one free from legal obligations.


Question: Affiant


Ans: The person who makes and subscribes an affidavit.


Question: Affidavit


Ans: A voluntary, written or printed declaration of facts, confirmed by
oath of the party making it before a person with authority to administer
the oath.


Question: Civil Action


Ans: legal action to protect a private civil right or to compel a civil remedy
(as distinguished from criminal prosecution)


Question: Defamation


Ans: That which tends to injure a person's reputation.

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Question: Dillon's Rule


Ans: Municipal governments only have the powers that are expressly
granted to them by the state legislature, those that are necessarily implied
from that grant of power, and those that are essential and indispensable to
the municipality's existence


Question: Enabling Legislation


Ans: The act of giving or enacting laws; the power to make laws via
legislation in contrast to court-made laws.


Question: General Law City


Ans: Cities operate under the laws of the state with some exceptions to
those laws.


Question: Home Rule City


Ans: The power of a city to govern itself so long as charter provisions or
ordinances are not inconsistent with state law.


Question: Home Rule Charter


Ans: Organizational plan or framework of a municipal corporation like a
constitution of a state or nation; it is drawn up by the municipality and
adopted by popular vote of the people.


Question: Injunction