Untitled Texas Attorney General Opinion ( 1942 )

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS AUSTIN bfra. ‘Plla Kas Murphy, Presldont State Board of Coematologl Austin, Texaa xhr matit baen or la being lnatalled. keeping to be in6taiha, leaving that to the aiaOrOti0n of the Board, and that, thersrora, the monrfa 8ppropriated might be expensed, lr the Board thought ldtimbb , for the rerislon or the existing mystem. I *a. Ella Mae Murp4, Preai&+nt, Page 2 ?fo aid not hold in that opinion, nor aid we intend to imply’, that the ma8 ~ppmprima in the rider were avail- a wkfo rlxpan8ltura ror the purpose or keeping up the 8xi8t- iag aymtem of reoorda maintained by the Board at the tima thm appropriation wa6 mad*. The intent of the Loglalatura aamua olearlr to hato bban to grorlde run68 ror inatalll~ and maint8ining a 8yat0a OS neord keoplag, not to msintaln the exlating ayatem. mila renaiaerable latituaa la arrord8a the Board in asleeting the lyatem to be adopted; that is, in determining whether a oom- pletely now system should be installed, or whether a new l yatem ba erfeoted by revision of the present ayatem, it la not given authority to expend the funda merely to melntaln the existing lflr tem. We do not undertake to pass upon the question, whiok la, apparently, in dispute between rou and the other members OS the !3oard as to ðer there is in prooora a revision of the existing system or record keopfng. Yours very truly BY R. v. 8airohila Aaalatant