Untitled Texas Attorney General Opinion ( 1942 )

. OZ+Z.CS OF TZ-ZEATI-ORNEY GENE@AL OF’TEXA5 >.i ., t AUSTiM . Qarrocnuad m- 2’ 2: : . j.- (a - _.: ‘. . i . . ‘. S8tlat6 Bill Xo. 398; bh. 242, Ganoral t12Ir.l Speeie.1..Laws, 4.7th T&g;. , provides in part: "'SoctI;ion1. A -- Thnt the p;ovsmir~ b&y of 3ny incxqorated city In $hio Stats my 1~542~ celva tkrou~h &Xi or dodicoki.or, snA is hereby oilp0X;islMlto acquire, by purchoso %it!lGUt eon- . dunmtion or by pumhaso throu,$ co:r0amH,ion plracrwx35qs, sod there&tar mlntnin onC operate 8s an strport, or 1ea?sc, or salX, to tho Ycdoral bovarment, -tracto of lc;rd e5.thor nithin 02 without; t&6 ‘corpo2ats lfrdtn of such city and within the county in urhich ouch city Is situated., ml Shci Cotiseioner`` Conrt of. any county nay lUwifiso ucquuirc, fialntcln .and operate for like purpose tracts of lend withia the btiits OS tha COWlI;~. . IttB -- .That’she (loveming body of any 5Jlcorporatca csty in t&ii3 state R3y reoo5.vc wtJmx~& gift oz1 &aicatLon, and is hereby mpo+ cred to acquire, b~r.purchme without cordazuation,,. end thereaSter xisintein ruM operate as ah, atiport, 0s 3ease; 02 sell to the~‘T&iIeral GoVornmnt, tracts of ~&ml :dthoMi tha county in rd&-h such ~lty~ ~. is oitu3tsb,p+3m0a c&i triscts zwe not with;tn~., ‘, .‘~, rive (~).&len bf ano%her inoorporatad oity that ,’ has a populatio?l of mro~than SiSteen huGi?od (1500) ~ people, eccdr6igg to the. Iwt precadirg Faderal 'Cen3c3,``* - ._ : . . _. . . . . Priorto ths anactmxtOf s. B. 398,c&es h>& 5KtJiOrity t0 3Ci&ro Ull& CQXZc?t5 5b~Ol$E! Uild&‘~ Ii. S.'l6(r, 41st Leg., but such authority extcnds8 ozlly t3 the coqM.sition of airports r;ituatoC wholly dthin t.>e county in With the city wss loaatd. T&u mod for futhority for cities to acquire airport land outside the couaty xvi3 the basis or" the ener@enaoycleaso of 3, ii.392. The diffxwum neda bet-.vean counties onil citice quits cviitently vies a c~neoioue one on the pri of the Legislatnre. 57hU.e S. 33. 433, Ch. Il.&?, Ganeral ena Special Lsv1.3,47th Lug., psobsbly Is xot appl.i.cftblo, as it is, onsctod to proviCe for tfie ac#sition.+T 1enCrs VOX the USC of the P&ml Govmment``. it is notsd that Zt 6180 provides that the land so aoquixe8 by (1 ooaty nust lier;itMll the J&litsor ouch covnty. Bintin~ no otatute ox codstitntiosal p~ovIsioa 0xqrBssly giving authorSt,u to a county tcJ acqusre litnO oid3ido it23 bounilsries for nlrport pllQOSG8, nor froa- 6hiuh the po-aer could bo rortsombLy tiplied, -88 am ccxpullql to anums you- quorstion in the negative. .