County and city provide services

From Impact News, September 26, 2008...

Unlike city government, which has the power to do whatever is not deemed unlawful by Texas law, county government is exactly opposite in that it can only do what legislation specifies.

“For the most part cities decide what they need to do, how they need to do it and how much they need to do. It is the opposite with counties: Counties are told what to do, they’re told what standard to do it, they’re told how to do it and they’re told at what level to do it, but they do not control those things,” said Donald Lee, executive director for the Texas Conference of Urban Counties

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