Untitled Texas Attorney General Opinion ( 1944 )

OFFICE OF THE AlTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS 5 AUSTIN ikmorublo H. ri.&aClain county Attorlmy, kllllmmmn county Grorgetown. Teraa Phfr will eoknor January IU, 1944, pertinon set out: Lfooaaad 3teto Land rumoy (18 ohm& and do ao abovo doa?rlbed with only of the Licensed sttitoL~tnd Surveyor:’ rk contads that all af rheee survey8 zed boiaro thy aan bo feoordsa. I would crpproolato your nnawer to tho above quoatloo in order that I may advim tbo County Clerk.” I Artiolo beSO, Vrrnoo'a m~l;lod Civil .Jtrtuem, 1625, provides, ln part, us follo*a: “naoh oounty nurveyor sLai.1 record ?n a well bound book ull the ourveye In hia aounty vcltht>e plats thereof that he May SW&I)wheLhisrprivtltsor official." stlalo Se07 of wid stututum furthe provides thtit *ocLohcounty surveyor 6lxill recolvs and era:!ia all ricla notea OS mrveym made in oulC county U~JOUwhloh pstonta mre to be ob- tained r.ndehmA1 certify to the nmia aoooniirrgto lw, rnd re- cord auoh SlsAU notes in a book to be kept by Dim for tbt pur- pan ~4 ha mhall perform much other dutiae aa narybe regulrsd of him by luw.. Tbu oommim~ionsrm~ #ourt a?~11 rurnleh him roll amceumary book& of raor,rd." It aselnsth:t the 2~ oontemplatse~ in 4ountieo thving a county mumoyor that a4oh county surveyor do &is oua roooralng and koep his own racaraq, but, Ii the County Clerk aosumem this ro@onatbillty for the county surveyor, a ndr o o o r dsa nd mo p s luoh rsoordm in the Cocnty CLerk*e 3rri,00, he should not raquiro an; oortlfleatlon of muah record8 alfsera~t from thikt requiroa by 1611, A lta tOO? fACtS 01 08a Fly Qla t86 t0 thl@ warn pamod OD by thir 6o~wtaarf1t ln &II opln$oa dalivered In 1941, mambored 044SZ, Ln tiioh a rimilar view xam taken am next above oxprosmod. t'3hfleiqtiolem Be78 And bi377 were rmetrded by tha hais- laturs, aftor tbs mdd prior opbl~n wn8 rendered, there ~'88 no oh~n~o m4lsrde ia than that uould ronaer aaid opinion.obeQlete, or f.n any way arreot ttrlpplkotlon In thla mutter. A UOpf Or esld opinion la attached beret0 for further am~lltfc*tf~. In vlaw of t!& atKJv0quoted stututem, und tlm eda r0wr oyialaop,thim dopstsent baldm that th8 County Clerk 0r your County 18 pormltted to raoord 8urvsp fourand under tho dlroc- tioa 0s your County 2hrveyor. suoh r0420o8a 6urvep bclog ocrtlrLc6 to by tba Caocty Burvoyor or any other duly Llooa806 State L~nb &rvoyor, rlthout bolng notarismd, am a oortliloeto by a notary would @aither rdd to nor 6etrRet rror the le@lity or tho pro- ooedlngm. .,, Youra vary truly A-miHIZsyWH~GAl, ."F??A;i3 ?Y nobst L. Lattlmore, .:r. :umiiltrnt hiJ.:W anal.