Untitled Texas Attorney General Opinion ( 1946 )

OFFICE OF THE AlTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS I QROVLR SLLLCRS Awon”r*QVNUN. AUSTIN countyAttarnel, Titu8 County Mt. Pleamant, Torta Dear Nr* 7anOel OplnfOn X0. O-7360 Bet sbutdorn 0 newcrpsperto lnsta Your request for an op nttor is as'follower *I hami'pour opinion the other opinion l(O*O-7 le aonfue- lag (LO regarding the iume ed your opin that oertain aooiden t , oa not be euoh a break as t la&al public aam0 Contpan~ down entire- tall 8 new e cause enou@ ati be eli- to publioh logal noticea or 50 Ion a OLBO in whlob a fast ismae e opinion bi tbie department that your should bo anewered to the &feat that mob ehutdoua for one week, in order to install a ner preen, Wouldnot render the paper ineligible thdreatter to publish localnotloea under the law. You have oormotly quoted our holdinn In Opinion lo. 0-7286, that a break in publloatlm on looount ol aooident., aamaltr, and the like, would not omstltute auob a 'break80 to ,. * i 580 nonorablot. V. Vauoe - pago 0 ywndrra paper InelIgible to looept leEa publloatione- We tbfnk tho typo of caum ior the Sailtare to put out en imoue of a neuepaper mentioned by you la a oaaual ty,. Iebmter’o new InternationalDlotlonary thus definer tbe word 'cRRur3ty~I "1. Cbanoet aocidsaf$ omtinpmoy; al 80 that rhjch hapeenn without design , or’ without heina foraaeen; en roc~llent. Tblo 10 the sense of the word lcamualtf fn which ve used It in our opinion. Certainly, tbe ne0eselty for dlo- oardlnga prom and installing a new one in a newspaper print- lnu oif’loe 2s not an act of dealt, but arimea from a ocntln- geng, that 10. the ln8Uequre~ or uniltneer of tbe proem $xeti- fylna ita roplaoeunent~ .Tbe lord goa,maalt~ le of broader ll&tiaanoe thu! the rord gaoaidentv; tbae a destruotlon of e press Erllgbt- nln# would not be an lcoldent~but It undoubtedly would 66 a oamual tf. Xoreover, If the press were blom up b7 an hoin- diary*mbomb, it would not be an aoc$bmt~ but would be a caaraltyoi the flrat ran&* Our 1 anpage quoted by pm -- vacolaentl and oaeualty~ or the like , ma8 stem broaQer,ln lta scope than eltber or both or the word* laocldent~ and leamaltyo. It w uld lnolnde other delryr or interruptlone trm Jailer otuss s ior 8 break in pub1ication. Xoreoter. lnnounceff lm not lImIted tbe rule We h a r e to those accident and camualty attu8tionnrwhich create sn ab- soluteneoeasfty for interruption, but on the ocntrary, would lnolode tboso rltuationewhere the exl~enolea ot .tbebuslneam reyuired better tacilltlea an6 service, or laok of publication was dne to labor troubler, shortage of paperr and the like, or humanitarian ~onrideratlonm~suob as obaeming the Cbrletnme and Wew Year’* holiday@, *fled tbe.order - .tlmo ott".'`` ‘~ ,‘.: ~. r,’ ATTORNEY OEMERAL OP TEM8 / 4 ,ddeer*, 0012-6: .----, AaSISTAWT