Rural? You only thought you knew its meaning
As you perchance have noticed, the Texas Legislature did not legislate this year. This is good because it saved us from who knows what. This is bad because we’ll never know what kind of entertainment we missed.
By way of reminder, the Legislature meets in regular session only in odd years. Long ago, odd years were deemed the appropriate ones for our lawmakers to convene.
But while our state lawmakers didn’t make state laws this year, there’s always stuff to be done as a result of stuff done in previous legislative years. Some of it is important. Some if it seems not quite as important.
The Texas Legislative Council’s research division recently researched something that’s apparently a bit confusing, or at least conflicting, in state law and rules.
It’s in a 28-page report with the fetching title “Definitions of ‘Rural’ in Texas Statutes and the Texas Administrative Code as of April 2018.”
If that’s not clear enough, here’s the opening line in the introduction: “This publication compiles definitions of ‘rural’ found in Texas statutes and state agency rules.”
Yes, you and I have our own definitions of rural. For some,