Untitled Texas Attorney General Opinion ( 1942 )

TBEATJTORNEYGENERAL
OFTEXAS
XoaorebloArnold IF. ~mnklla
county Attarnb~
Your letter of
loa rrcm this department
mt0r $6 @(Ir0u0w88
rZ not,doesthe oount hmoarl tto
8pytn bxobmtor tuelm t;
atr ritor&ul.
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“If not, how f~ the oouty to 1.``# ralld ,, i,
tax lwy?
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rppr~oi8tb y o uQuzultr
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hu iab1.n
#l8Oo a p a a y -
lng the reqtmrt with 8 well-prepsM4 mumuy of tha pertl-
nbnt Coaatltatloa, statutbti *a4 au8b,0riU08r
In oam of (ttromoy in t&m Qouut ~amlmleaom*
Court, the Cbunty tuQ@ ia outhor%sOd tQ maI;,8a lvpolatmat
to ii11 mob memoy. Rev. CTlv.f?tato.,Art. RJU.
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: The Oouty Judge la not authorlxed to doalan l
vacaaay for any O~WO, but. upon rbaiw th8t then ui6ta
suoh voaanoy. he ia outhorited to make the appointmat, aa
provldodIa,the Artio1elaaatobov. e1t.d.
Artlok 2356 or the Dsrleed Civil %ntuteo deolerwa:
tex eh811 be latIe4 lxoopt et 8
Wo aofgity
regular texm or the oourt,@ml when all ambars
Of &aid OOtUt a@ ~bSOllt.w .
Thla In a valid leglalntiraon&z&t, and a oo&y tax lev%&
ltm y tim, or by anytribunel exoeptate wgularternof
the oourt, en4 ahen all menbero of se14 oourt era prawi~;lo
bV6lid. l'rss1. %xUbarough, ahurlff, 8 :::.%:.@O; Wooaks
t. State, W fL 1:.(2) 714, (3.2).
If t&s County r'udgotwiza astortrim .&hatthere.bxists
tiraaanoy in the Conulssiaoers'Court,hewuuldbemtIroly
uithh lnia#o uuE to mk u
a niIlBmc l ua te
ppoltltocrnt
thorbto,
end upon the eppointte’n loboptlnga3d qwlifylng for auth
pocltlcm,the soto of the appointee aa ComIaslomr would be '
ralULd emu thou@ It should aWtrtmrd be det6rnlned jtiiolst
ly that no vaoancyhad In truth existed. In other uords, tlm
new eppointao wwld at load be a di Sacto orfioer,uboee of-
fIoIa1sots would be telld, 'Xxport8 Wyeo, I& I?. r;, 831;
bbrtlat. GntnrltleuInd. f%hool Met., 266 C-.7;.607, writ
refus&~ Blowbtt 7. RiohardsonIfid.f?&ool M0t., 240 2. C.
529; Cole 7. Pofto, 155 s. s. 350..
In thlr.mamr l&e detbeole of tho impotewg of the
the emuel levy uould be aotdad.
county to monlco
Gf oourse,iit, swh 6etemInetlon by ths judga,
and th0 eppolqtmat end quauri0au0n 0r a suo04mor, no
rurthar. aaapamation oould be pe$d to the former oom&naloaar.
.
You ue torther advleed that t&are 16 ni
authority Sor the eppointuent of 8 deputy acu&soloa-
lr by any one in any event.
Crustfry, that the. above fully lmuwa your in-
quiriet,wa are
Very tily your8 ,
A’PXSWR G?!WRALOF SX&?
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