Texas Constitution:Article III, Section 51: Difference between revisions

* ''Fort Worth Indep. Sch. Dist. v. City of Fort Worth'', 22 S.W.3d 831, [https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=4029717219227699877#p841 841-42] (Tex. 2000) ("The City’s most serious attack on the validity of the 1936 arrangement is that Ordinance No. 1935 required it to grant its funds to the School District in violation of article III, section 51 of the Texas Constitution, which states that '. . .', and section 52 of the same article, which similarly provides that with exceptions not here applicable, '. . .'. To answer this argument, we must determine whether Bell's payments under Ordinance No. 1933 were solely for City services and taxes or whether they were also for School District taxes. If the former, then the City could not apportion them to the School District because they would constitute the City’s 'public money'.")