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OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN
Honorable D. U. Burkhalter, Acting
County Attorney
ThrockmortoIlcounty
,Throclonorton,Texas
\\ Apt$Aq*secxll52, provides, in part:
ahsll have no power to authorize
to grant publio money . . . to any
, association or corporation whatsoever, or
c.gaea stockholder in such corporation, assocl-
ation or company; . . ."
Article 11, Section 3 provides that no county shsll
become a subscriber to the capital.of any private corporation
or association, or make any appropriation or donation to then
SBmb, Or in anywise loan Its credit.
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Honorable D. U. Burkhalter, Page 2
Conference Opinion No. 2662 of this department,
dated February 4, 1927, book 62, page 46, Reports and OplA.ons
of the Attorney General, 1926-1928, and folloved In numerous
opinions, among which are Opinions No. O-1001 approved Decem-
ber 13, 1939, and O-5565 approved September 17, 1943, held that
the commlssloners'~court has no authority to appropriate or
donate public funds to charitable Institutions, operated and
maaaged or'controlled by private lndlvlduals.
Intrirlew
of the foregoing authorities, you are respect-
fully advised:-thatin the opinion of this department the Com-
missloners* Court la uithotitlegsl ~authorlty to donate county
runda to the building within the county of a privately chsrter-
ed co-operative hospital.
Yours very truly
WJRK:ddt