What are they going to do about Uber? This is a perfect example of the conflict between freedom and government. Can I pay you for giving me a ride? For concocting a headache remedy? For designing a home? For cutting my hair? For watching my home while I am on the road?

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PART 3 TEXAS BOARD OF CHIROPRACTIC EXAMINERS
PART 5 STATE BOARD OF DENTAL EXAMINERS
PART 6 TEXAS BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS
PART 7 STATE COMMITTEE OF EXAMINERS IN THE FITTING AND DISPENSING OF HEARING INSTRUMENTS
PART 8 TEXAS APPRAISER LICENSING AND CERTIFICATION BOARD
PART 9 TEXAS MEDICAL BOARD
PART 10 TEXAS FUNERAL SERVICE COMMISSION
PART 11 TEXAS BOARD OF NURSING
PART 14 TEXAS OPTOMETRY BOARD
PART 15 TEXAS STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY
PART 16 TEXAS BOARD OF PHYSICAL THERAPY EXAMINERS
PART 17 TEXAS STATE BOARD OF PLUMBING EXAMINERS
PART 18 TEXAS STATE BOARD OF PODIATRIC MEDICAL EXAMINERS
PART 21 TEXAS STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS OF PSYCHOLOGISTS
PART 22 TEXAS STATE BOARD OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTANCY
PART 23 TEXAS REAL ESTATE COMMISSION
PART 24 TEXAS BOARD OF VETERINARY MEDICAL EXAMINERS
PART 26 TEXAS BOARD OF LICENSURE FOR PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL PHYSICISTS
PART 28 EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF PHYSICAL THERAPY AND OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY EXAMINERS
PART 29 TEXAS BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEYING
PART 30 TEXAS STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS OF PROFESSIONAL COUNSELORS
PART 31 TEXAS STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS OF DIETITIANS
PART 32 STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS FOR SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY AND AUDIOLOGY
PART 34 TEXAS STATE BOARD OF SOCIAL WORKER EXAMINERS
PART 35 TEXAS STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPISTS
PART 36 COUNCIL ON SEX OFFENDER TREATMENT
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PART 40 ADVISORY BOARD OF ATHLETIC TRAINERS

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TARA is responsible for the administration of electric and gas utility franchises, the licensing of telecommunications services that use the rights-of-way, and several community media programs. TARA also registers and monitors local credit access businesses.

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For the three taxi franchises in Austin—Austin Cab, Lone Star Cab and Yellow Cab—the economics are much sweeter. The city has granted the three companies a total of 744 permits. In turn, they pay the city $400 a year per taxi. The companies then lease the permits to the drivers for $250 to $295 a week, or between $13,000 and $15,340 a year (a 3,000-percent markup). For Yellow Cab, which controls more than 60 percent of the market, that works out to nearly $6.8 million a year in revenue from permits alone.

http://www.texasobserver.org/austin-taxi...
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A Temporary Change of Use to Public Assembly Permit is required for any event that will have more than 49 people occupying a building, if that building does not hold a legal Certificate of Occupancy for a Public Assembly Use that is regulated and regularly inspected, by the City of Austin and the Austin Fire Department (Restaurants, bars, etc.)
If alcohol and/or live music are part of an event, whether it is indoors or outdoors, additional Inspections and/or Permits, stating additional requirements and conditions, may be needed. For instance, the TABC requires Entry and Exit control, for an outdoor event that includes alcohol … creating an enclosed area to control entry and egress, to meet the TABC requirement, brings additional Fire Code inspections and requirements into play.
Permit requirements vary for each location, venue and event set up.
http://austincitypermits.com/?page_id=25...

It would not surprise me if this was the next beer on the patio photo op for the white house.

Just like the Gates fiasco.

This is such a tangled mess it made me chuckle. I know people who would open such an investigation. We laugh at such people. The government, again, has to get in people's business... It's just all a big cluster, isn't it?