Untitled Texas Attorney General Opinion ( 1943 )

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN
gonoJable Dan Y. Jaokson
;tietriotAttorney
Boustan , Texas
r-31s, Iats ,Of
aturs? And
n(ithereto.
In part below
you raquestsd two ralateli
questions:
Ohapter 109, Acts
oi the Wth Bill 100.880,
iagular se*-
.3iV81yto the United stat8S’
na granted by IiouseBill No. 53OV
th8 QpiIiientbt B. a. No. 580 does
t, &WUlt8 Bi&& NO. 126 Of the same
Certainly, there is no express
Bill repealing the Senate Bill, end
repeal by implioation is aat Parored. The aaoepted rule is
Ql8arl.n+gpr?saed in 39 Texas &IX., Sec. 76, page 140, in
the folXi+i'lng
lan,:u&Ee:
Honorable ;)8s%. Jaakson, page 2
, "Acoording t:jnumeroue pronounoemente OS the
Texas courts, tho ropeai of atatutos by ImplIoatIan
Is never favored or presumed. The two aots wIl1 per-
sist unless the conflicting provi8ions are so anta&o-
nistia and repugunantthat both aaunot stand. :Hhere
there is no express repsal, the preawdption is that
In enactin a new law tke Legislature intended the
old statute to remain in operation.*
The multitude of authorities oited in the text
support the rule.
Another rule of even @eater fOXWe I8 thati
where both aote are paaaod by the name seeuion of the
legislature, It will be premumed that th8 1egIalature
Intended for both aote to rtand. 70~ a statement ot the
rule 8ee 39 Tex. SW., Seo. 98, pa&o 146, 8tated In the
fOllOWbg 1kn@I438!
”
. The Legislature I8 mup:osad to be
i governed ip'one lpIrIt and polio7 during a remrlon,
I asd nothing ohort pf a direot repeal in expre88 term,
or 8uOh lrreoonoIl(ablerepuguanoy a8 that both aOt8
oannot stand together, will justlip a oourt In holding
an aOt 18 rep8ahd by another aat pa8aed at th8 came
! 8888ion. . . .”
You are, therefore, adVi8ed that It 18 OUX Vi8U
I t!mt 3. B. No. 186 I8 not repealed by H. B. No. 580,
Pa8sing now to the effeot of these two bIll8,
we enolose herewith oopioa of two OpInIOn8 of th18 departskent
reaently releaeed, Opinion No. O-5290, pa8oing upon the oon-
t 8titUtiOlltiit.y of the88 two bills, and o&don No. O-5363,
upon the liability of land held In the name of the United
stat.88ror State and oounty ad valoram tares. WS belie*8
that these two opInIon8 afford a 8uffloIent guide ror your
office withO\jt f'uNA8r CI~SWSS~OU.
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