Untitled Texas Attorney General Opinion ( 1939 )

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS AUSTIN Hon. A. P. Pre8twOOd County Auditor Tyler, Tax&a Dear Mr. Fre8twoOd: h8 been reosIv Hon. A. P. Prestwood, January 25, 1939, Page 2 Statute8 of Texas provides as follows: "In counties oontaining as many as thirty- aeven thousand, five hundred and cjne (37 501) and not more than sixty thousand (60,000!, or cantsi-fng a city of over twenty-five thousand (25,000) inhabitants, district and oounty orrl- cers named herein shall retain one-third of 6uoh excess fees until suoh one-third, together wlth the nmo3nt speaifled in hrtiole 3883, amOUIk.8 to Forty-two Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($4250). Precinat officera shall retain one-third until euoh one-third, toeether with the amount speolrled In Artlole 3883, amounts to Twenty-two Hundred Dollar8 ($%w#,]." You are, therefora, adrlwd that the 8alarle8 of ~ Juustioee of the Peace and Conatableli of SBlithCoumty are re-‘ 8peOtiYely, $1,800.00, plus one-third of the r888 eol2eotsd In exoess of suoh amount of salary, as provldad la Artlole 3891 80 that 8uch total 8a.laq 8hall not exoeid the 8111oi $2,200.00. We oont~trueArticle 3891 to mean that ia #i&gnktiag the exoe88 refI8to be allowed the88 OffiOeYSJit 18 Dot Per- alsslble to oompute one-t.IQrdor all feO8 0olleOted but only one-third of euoh.reeE!in bXOe88 or and am-0 #1,8W*oo. !&at Is%0 say, if the total rees oOlleoted shotid k &,000.00, t&e Justioe of Peaoe an4 Oonrtable would be entltled to Fe- taln one-third of $1200.00 wbloh would be the 8u~Oi $4W&O, thereby aaking the total 8alar and exoe88 fee8 allowed to 8uoh orrhea to be the ma or 3e ,%00.00. Very truly your8 ATTOW2Y ORMItRALOF TBXA8 A88t8taUt APPROVED: