Untitled Texas Attorney General Opinion ( 1944 )

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
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Hon. 3. M. Williams
County Auditor
Tarrant County
Fort Worth, Texas
Dear Mr. Williams: Opinion No.
connunicationin which
you request our
Court of Tarr
county funds
quent from Gatesville, Texas,
ad to us, are that such child
under the terms of Senate Bill
was committed to the State Training School
that he remained in said institution for
ir and under the merit system employed by
ntitlad to be discharged rrom said Instittition
on of that period of tine. When the tize for a
release cane, it was xade manifest to the Judge of the 96th
District Court that he had no people with whom he could live
and that he was less than fourteen years of age but was a big,
strong, healthy boy for his age. Application was sought and
permission obtained to p&ace the boy in the home known as
Boystown, Nebraska, and he was taken by an assistant juvenile
officer of Tarrant County, Texas, in an autoraobileProm Fort
Worth, Texas, to said institution upon an order of the Judge
of the 96th District Court.
Hon. J. Ed.Williams, page 2
Upon careful study of Article 2338-1, V. A. C. S.,
we are unable to Sind any authority given for the placing of
a delinquent child outside of the Stats of Texas.
Therefore, the act of transporting such juvenile
outside of the State OS Texas would be unauthorized by law,
and the expenses of such trip would not be an allowable
charge against county Sunds, the sam not "being necessary
in tl-eperformance of the duties of a juvsnlle oSSicerm as
required by Art. 5142, V. A, C. S.
Trusting this satisfactorilyanswers your inquiry,
we are
Yours very truly
A'PKRNEY G%:~~L OF T3Z.S
3y (s) Robert L. Lattimore, Jr.
Assistant
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UPP,OVED JUX 27, 194.4
(s) Geo. P. Blackburn
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