Untitled Texas Attorney General Opinion ( 1943 )

808 OFFICE OF THE Al-I’ORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS AUSTIN iioaorabfeX3.R. Wright Snperlntenaent, Tesas School for Austin, Tesa8 Dear I&-.Wightr on upon the above subjoot mattar, as fo 462, J-at% OS the 47th Le,gislsture, nl Lam oi TCxas, 1941, page Ore, •~l!onthcrs; bnMng instm%tOr, tlgl3t3 or aimntbjinstructor of coanotolo 1' c.r ciimnth; other InsImctore 2% cos x148&-J per month; roontioml1 rrp;rioultura teacher not to exaefd $175.00 fnolurlingPtifmal Grant on 12 per 3iiont.h sdmths basksI prmidcd t.hreQteachers msy be p&l not %XOCoc'jse: $lbb,Oo POP ~On~'----$8~,485.00 809 honorable 2. R. Wright - page 2 lunder tho aboro two p r wlsio nsof tho law, onn we logally pay our rinting instructor more than $loco.co mnu3lly? t Orcumrilp, an appropriationact may not ropoal, as10ndor rm ahatsoovor a Sonora1 law. But that prina&- pie has no application to your inquiry. house Dill no. 291 of the 47th Legtslature,liegxlarSession, (Oenoral and Specfal Lass of Texas 1941, p..813) prwldea: *Ihe salaries of all State officers and all State employees, excbpt those Conetitution- al State offlwra ahoeo Sal&es are speciflcal- 17 pired by the Constitutionand esccpt the sal- aries of the District Judges and other couponso- t&on of District Judges shall bon for the period boginaing Soptembor lr 1941, and endInS August 31, 1943, In such sum or amounts aa nay be pro- dded for by the Legislaturein the general ap- proprilztioo bills. It Is spocificnllydoolared to bo ono.ot the Intents hereof that the togis- lature shall also flx the fusountof supplemental salarioe horsaitor, out of Court foes and rep ooipts, to be paid to the cloa'lcs snd other oui- ployeos of the Courts of Civil A pools, the Su- prome Court, and the Court of CrfsilnalAppeals.* SootIon 3 of the Act oxpreesly reponla all laws end parts of lake fixing the salaries of all state officers ad employees insofar as they arc in couf'lict. The effeot of house Dill So, 291, thorefore,wae to suspend Artfole 3205 for the 1iPo of tho Act -- that is, from Soptcmber 1, X941, to Augmt 31, 1943. 80 that, you aro ad~lsed that the Board may lan- fully pay the prlntln~ instructor compensation or salary not to oxooed $145.00 per zconth. of course, ue do not weaa to advise that you may pay tho instruotor auy suzountuhatsoovor,In 8ddzf.tlonto the salary heretofore agreed upon, for services alroady roudcrti or Par services sihlchthe onrployeehas contract&M to perform for tho couqmnoatfonheretofore agreed upon. So0 Constitution,Artiole 3, Section 44. Thus, ir a aon- 810 tionorableEl B. tlrlght- page 3 tracrthas hea-etotore becn cntercd into for the semilees of such instructor for a stipulate4 periti at n stlpu- lat.@ figure, during the period oowxed by the contrwt, the ooapansation of'the employee nay not be inoresse& rrborcthe agreed figure. vary truly yours ATTOHXEX GMEllAL 08 TTXAS OS-RR