{"id":312366,"date":"2014-08-29T17:37:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T22:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=312366"},"modified":"2014-08-31T17:09:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T22:09:38","slug":"abbott-says-plastic-bag-bans-are-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=312366","title":{"rendered":"Abbott Says Plastic Bag Bans Are Illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/08\/thumb_Dan-Flynn1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/08\/thumb_Dan-Flynn1.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_Dan-Flynn\" width=\"127\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-312367\" \/><\/a>AUSTIN (AP\/Staff) &#8211; Responding to a request from East Texas Lawmaker Dan Flynn (pictured), Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott says municipal bans on single-use plastic bags are illegal.    In a five-page attorney general&#8217;s opinion Friday, the Republican gubernatorial nominee said a state law prohibits local governments from prohibiting, restricting or charging a fee, for solid waste management purposes, for &#8220;the use of a container or package in a manner not authorized by state law.&#8221;    Abbott acknowledges that the law does not define a single-use plastic bag as a &#8220;container or package.&#8221; However, he contends the bags fit the dictionary definitions of a container or package.   Flynn, a Republican state representative from Van, had sought the opinion after nine cities enacted ordinances banning the single-use bags. The opinion is non-binding but reflects the attorney general&#8217;s view of who would win a lawsuit on the subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN (AP\/Staff) &#8211; Responding to a request from East Texas Lawmaker Dan Flynn (pictured), Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott says municipal bans on single-use plastic bags are illegal. In a five-page attorney general&#8217;s opinion Friday, the Republican gubernatorial nominee said a state law prohibits local governments from prohibiting, restricting or charging a fee, for solid &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=312366\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Abbott Says Plastic Bag Bans Are Illegal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-12 02:54:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312369,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312366\/revisions\/312369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}