Untitled Texas Attorney General Opinion ( 1945 )

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN
GROVER SELLERS
ATTORNEY GENERAL
Honorable Bert Ironi,ALdminiatratOr~ ‘1
Texas Liquor Control Boar4 ‘; :
Auwtinr Texas ‘j
mar Xx-. Ford: Opinion NO* c+Byp i
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Re: Wheth&iraot r&r Ohlldren,
loting through the gmwdfm of their
satatef,may mOeIre 8 ~oly;+6tore
permttr under the LfquoWmtrol
Borrd Act? ,.
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Your request for an o&& u&n the above mbjeot mat-
ter is am follo~sr ,.,_,
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‘Leon Kaufman ai S&n Antoirlo, ,Texam, is ldminiw
trator ior the estate of bin 4eOerae4 wife an4 he is
guardian tar his two aiimr a)?lldrenrho are ehlldren
of his deoeased rite. Iho two minor ahildron Inherited
au lntrrsat In a p6skagwato?e bolonglng to the ~14
Leoq~hu!'M&n and'-hli'-d#asamdrife. A&. Xaufman, as
I undaratan4 It, thawdes&fem to olom the a4miaistra-
tion on the estate or.hie dooeared Vfie and meoure 8
l=aoknRe Store Permit from the Texar Llqnor Control
Board in hlr om name indlrlduall~ an4 la him n8me an
guardian of ,the rstatee oi the two minor ohlldren.
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.“Arti6ie .4i?4 of Vernon’s Civil Statutes, with
refer&e t.aOontinuation of business under the Chap-
ter covering guardian and ward, reads au fOlY,oaar
“Ii there be a farm, plantation, mama-
faotory or business belonaing to the estate,
and if the same be not require4 to Be at onoe
sold Par the pawent of debt+ the guardian
or such eatate, UQOn order of the court,
shall carry on suoh farm, plantation, manu-
faotory or hurinees, or rent the same, as
shall appear for the best interest oP the
estates In decldine, the court shnll take
:Innorah?eBert Ford - pam 2
Into consideration the oon4ltlon of the
estate, aa the aeceaelty that may exlmt
for the future aale of auoh property for
the payment of debt@, or the eduoatlon
an4 ralntenance of the var4, 8nd shall
not extend the time of rentinp moh prop-
erty beyond what may be oonslstent with
the intereatm of the estate and of the
ward.’ (AOtr 1876, PO i8zs 0. L. vol. 8,
p. 1018.)
‘The first paramaph ot Seotlcn 11, Page 9, of
the printed Aof reads as follo~m:
"'The Bawd nr Admlnl rtrator shall rc-
fume to issue a poralt to any appllo8nt
either rlth or without n hearing if it barn
reasonable grounds to hellere an4 tlnds any
of the Pollowinp;to be true:’
'SeatInn 11(n), beulnnln@ at the bottom oi Page
9, of the prlnted Liquor Control Boar4 Aotr reads as
tollowar
“‘That the apnlloant irrnot of go04 moral
oharaotsr, that him reputation for being a
peaoeahle, law-abiding oltlren In the eommun-
lty where he remidea 1s bad, or that he ia un-
der twenty-one (21) yearm of age.’
*Your valued opinion la requeated aa to rhetber
or not Yr. Kaufman's two minor ohl14renr with Ur*
Kaufman for thel guardian, would be prohlbitedr under
the last quoted seatlon of the Aot, because of their
mlnorltf from having a Package Store Pemaitr provided
tbat Mr. Kauihrn In otberrlee lndirldua’ll~qualified.*
It 1s the onfnlclnot this department that Seotlon
ll(fi!ot the Llqunr Control Board Aat, as quoted by you, pre-
olud~s tho iwuancc of a permit, such as you mqntlon. Mr.
Kaufwan In seekIn* a permit , as tyard~lapof the ertnte of hla
minor children, would be mtlnrr in his tlduci*rT capacity and
not for himself jnMrldually. It would In essence he the
grantlna of a uermlt to the minors, therefore, In the name
of their martilan. She statute speoitloal?~ tc;%lds the ls-
SUIXJCOof a permit to one under trentFone veal'sof ace dlrect-
Uonorablo Bert Ford - p@@?~3
17. un& oertainly doee not OontempUta tbo ls``saoe Of
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suob permit to lminor iBdireOtly. It im forWdd.n bf
neoellB8ryhplio~tion.
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