OFFICE OF THE&J!TORNEY GE~RAL PRICE DANIEL ATTORNEY GE?nmAI. February 20, 1948 Hon. Wllliati.L.Xerr, President Board of Regenta Stat.e'~Teschera College Mlbland, Texas op1nlou Ilo.v-509 Re: Transfer of fuuds from acilaryapprdprlatlotie for 1948 ~Sr;tpmsr Sea- slon to balmy a ro- prltitlonb ioF $7- 1948 Long &salon. Dear Sir: We Pefer to'your letter of recent date which stated in aubstcmoe a8 iollows: y~I;sgiala++e in Acts 1947, 50th ;. bg. H. B. 246; p. 662; agpTi&-' : ted fi5ir86bo for eslatiles'forul 08s. State'T&aeheraCol.lee for the X947-48 8 long Beaalon, and $4~,%2.00 for salaries for the 1948 auamer seatsion. The Board of Regents approved salar- lea at this echo01 f* the long s~aslon amounting to $199,786.00;.thw'xiei?eaaita- tlng the augmentlug oi,the appropriated amount, The Veteran8 AdxlnlstmrtloCha~ been lov in paying the amount due that se.hool 9and the others~under OUF jurlsdictlti)." For thst``reason;’the ~Pr&ldent of, &al Row would like to t%nsfer $18,401.00 from the 8-r sohool approprl+lon into the long sescrlon~approprlatlon. For.the summer aetmlon, the salaries will be paid out of the renmlnlng funds in the summer appraprla- tlon, oat of looal'funds and tht'funds which may thexibe Wallable f%om the Veterana.Ad- minl.atratlon. . - Ron. Wllllam L. Kerr, page 2 (v-509) Qtiestlon: l&y the transfer proposed above legally be made? The appropriationmade td Sul Rosa State Teaahere College by the 50th Legislature,provides: n A wt 31, ,L 3~8 1. Salaries Summer School :: &ilnt6nance, equipment and travel 30,000,00 30,000.00 4. Improvement+ and repairs 1OC.500.00 OF TOTAL $33~337.06 $d* The @&aeral Provisiona of t* 1947 iXpproprla- tiims .A&--Rdw&tldnal Instltutldzia,'at page 666; 1947 Sesalon Ltwa, read in part as follo%rs: %ubse&lon (2). S&&y ~Pro~l``oas. The rate of the salary paid an employee of any educational lnstitnt$~hqmed .. herein for services durQg ti;. stammersas- : slon shall not exceed the salary rate, :~ paid the employee for the came os?alml- lar aervlcesg in that ~ns~ltutlon during ,, the preceding longseesion.. ,.. "Full-timeemployeee.;on.tvelve (12) montha basis may recelve'not iwre thaa Five Hundred Dollare ($500) for aorreep6nL,~ denoe cburse &l/or extension center teach- &&and m&y ziot'bepaid addltlonel mone3 for aumer school teaching &ml full-tire employees on a.nlne (9) ,mo&he bash IPS~be w%d *or oorreanondenoeand/or extenslti ': Dollars -($500) per annum for oorrespondenw. ootuwe te&hln&-duriiigthe ilscS1 year and/or ewlon oenter vork,durlng the reg months eesslon."'(Eiephasla ours. .v w w . . Hon. William L. Kerr, page 3 (V-509) For many years prior to the 1948-49 blenn&irn, the Leglalature.haaltedzed in particular the apeclflc salaries to be paid to each and Avery professor bnd ln- atructor on full time employment for the nine months long term; and to each and eiery admlnlatratlve,&al- for long term purpoaea, the Legislature heiaheretofore, as it now doe@ in the 1947 Act, provided an additional lump sum appropriationto care for the professora, ln- atructora and other persons employed to teach.or to per- form other services during the summersession, and who were not employed on a twelve ironthsservice baa&k. See H. B. 173~ Item 155, pi 740 dedgnat@ "Summer Sssa+bn, Resident teaching and admlnlstratlon ; Item.243, [‘*763; Item 86,``. 766; Item 288, p* 776; ~Item132, g0 7 1, Item 2X3& p. 786; Item 94, p. 790 designated SUmer- 4, pe 792; Item 74 p. 795; Itep PO, and Item 77, pe 600. ": ThCthlrd paragraph.of Subsection~(2)in-the General Provlalons of H, ~B. 173, Acts 1945, which pM- vision appears aubatantlallyreenacted in Stiae$tloti ~(2) In B. B. 246, Acts 1247, above quoted, anthorl,sda-the use of the lump aum Summer ~School"approprlkitlo~k far salary payments to full time employees otia nine months basis and to other peraoxianot employed on a twelve iaonthsbasis for teaching Summer So&o1 or for other services performed during the remslnlng three months of the fiscal year, the sumpr months or abort session. The 50th Leglslatnce in Hi ?a 246 has depart- ed from the practice of ltemlelng salaryispproprl~atidns for the long beaalon ~of the State Colleges. In its bien- nial approprlbtltinfor the flacal year's1947-48,and 1948- 49 it has made;'first, a lump sum apptioprlation ltemlzed as "1. Salaries* in the w College approptilatlonsand in addition thereto~a lump sti~appropriatlon'ltemized aa "2. Summer School'. The Leglslattu-e having continued to approprlate~alump sum under item~deslgnated"2. Sum- mer School", we believe It was its Intention when it apr proprlated a lump sum under item designated "1. Salaries" ,.that this latter appropriationwas to cover all the Sal-. arles for the long session and twelve montha employees which heretofore we'reprovided for by the l$emleed aal- ary method. .. _. L w Hon. William L. Kerr, Page 4 (V-509) . The item designated as "1. Salaries" in the Sul Ross appropxletlonconstitutinga specific approprl- atlon to be used for the payment of salaries to persona employed for the long.sesslohof the College and others employed on a twelve months basis, It may be used only for the a&eclflc purposes $ppro$rlated. 'EheIt&u de*&- nated as 2. Summer School constitutinga apeclflc,ap- proprlatlonto be used for salary payments to full time employees on a nine months basis or other persons not employed on a twelve months basis for teaching Summer School or for other services,performed during the re- maining three months of the fiscal year, the summer months, It follows that the same or any portion there- of may not be tranafePredtherefrom to be expended for long session salary payments. It is elementary, of course, that,an appropriationmay be used only for the purpose eIpreaaed therein or necessarily lmplled there- from. We have consideredalso the thlra paragraph in Subsection (2) of the General Provisions tif,H.~B. 246, 50th Legislature,and advise that such provision does not authorlie the proposed trtuxafer of funds from the Summer SchOol appropriationtd the long teriq apjws- prlatlon, the aame purporting to authorlae tr*ferti of only those Items or parts of items wlth+n the totals of e&oh of the speolfla approprlatl``. 1 SIRmARY ' : The Board of Regents of the State Teachers Colleges is not iuthorlaed lib tranafbr ar use funds Xpptioprlatedfor Sul Ross State TeaohertiCdl16 e~under item dealgnateil"2. 3-r -30 % 001" " in H. B. 246, Aota 1947;'for the paymeiitof tialiarlea of long session employees who abe provide9 for in ap#$oprliktion lteti designated 1. Salrrles in aald Bill. Yours very truly, APPROVED: ATTORREfGEBEIuLI,OFTEIAS ?iir& FI T A33ISTAKC AT&RREXfflWER& 0Ro:vb:mv Bs Cheater E. Olllaon Assistant