Untitled Texas Attorney General Opinion ( 1942 )

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS AUSTIN Crlp&&sd ChildrenDltl~lon VooationalFmhabilitationDlrialon Stats Dapa~rtment cb Eduoatlon Austin, Texas Att8ntlon: Ear.Jamse L. Tannhey we have your r abore qiwrtion. You a& . on the dat the demandnote OS by maanu of the oertlfloate. xi your division I.100 in ra0t paid out the sum of 4689.SO*for medloal servicerand hoapitalketionfor im.nloe Crippled Children Dlvlslon, ga@o 8 and Ode11 Heal ren6arad by Dr. Mills at Baylor Hospits of A: ! Dellam, TOM*,* and if you unduntand thst the treatmentren- dered for these ohildrcm wi8 msde nooosmry by ~U~IIS which wue oauaed by an uploslon, then in that evant, we me no objection to your sl lng the outlflcsts and returning the aam to #ebb & Webb Fn order that thay might enter the 8ame1 -in evideme to establish the amount of medlosl and~hospitali- zation upenas rsnduad mommary by fesson of the injury to t&r* ohildroa. ArtlolaaS95j,Vunon*s Civil Statutes of Textm, rhloh prseoribasthe duties of your dlvldon, mskes no pro- vislon'for the reaorery of medloal.and hospitalinationlx- penme furnl8hrd by your divieion, but we kaqu ot no reason r4 a parent of obtldren who hate received sld fmn your dUi- sion smy not voluntarilyregay ~tho tmount of ruoh erpendlture. Seation 9 of wld Adi provides in partr Vha state Departmentof Muoatlon Is au- thorlrmd to reoeire &its and d@stfons for this work. All QVta and don&lam tar orip$led ohlld- ren*a work shall be paid into the StmtqPreaeury and the ssme are hereby reappropriatedfor the purposss or this Act." .:.j nhilo you would bar. ztorothod oi mforllLn6 n&y- &t of theae lx p o nso by s MrP.'G.Oi Heal, we fmo* no rason why you dmld not aooept.klrdeMnd note in'the mm of $689.60, ant3if, a8 and when ho paya the sama doposlt the ronor in tha Ststa &asury to the propar fund aa indiantad by $eo$lon 9 of ~rtiole 8695j quoted above. we sre returnmingto you hmtwlth the #689.SO nOk signed by 0. 0. Ioal.,the letter fra# Speamaan Webb to you, dated Maroh 323,194E, and the osrtlfioate wbioh he has lrrlod you to d&n. 'Yourta ruy tzul~ APPXOVED APFKL 8, 1943 ATTORNEY GZW?ZRALOF TEXAS /s/ Grorir sellerr m FIRST ASSISTA#r ATTORmY GzwmL flRK:db Znolosuras