Ol+FlCE OF THE ATTORNkY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN
G~~“ERSECLERS
~-tat% GumnAt.
EonorabieX. L. Hinson, Jr.
CountyAuditor
Folk County
Liviwston, Texas
Dear Sir: - Opinion 80. O-6689 ’
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~a, but before such payment can be nado for
945, it v~lllbe neccwmry to afi:end
the county
budgot.
Article 689a-11, iernoncs Annotated’Civil Statutes,,in
In part es follov~s:
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$89* * ;/h&xthe budset &.s bce;lflnally ap-
proved by.the Comissloncrs~ Court, tho budget, RS
apyrovod by the Court, shall be filed with tho Clerk
of the County Court, and tuxco levied only in ac-
cordance thereaith, and no expenditure of the funds
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of the county shall thereafterbo mdo eioept in
strict ~0npllf~1o5 with the budget as adopted by the
court. Except that emrwnoy cr2enditures,lq,case
of grave public neoseoity to met musuol anZ un-
fo?asocr.coilditions \vh?bich
could Got, by reorronibly
dil!.ze%tthb@t and attention, have been luoludod
in the ori&ia.I budsot, may from tim to tke be
. authorized by the Cotit os amn~ents to the
origin01 bud&, t * *n
This ~opartmnt hcs ruled that the Comissioners* Court
of a couuty is v;ithoutauthority to naze any cqmd.ituv35 of
fusds of the county not in oompliome with the budgot, except
=r of 6;ravopublio adcomity, aa
caorgencyox?anditurss in ca-**
outlinedby maid Arti.cl5 6(39a-11.. Tieeoolose herewith copies
or our Opinlom iios.CbjOj3-A and 0~51&, each.of which con:
tainsa full diacuasior.of the b&get Icvf,and how 6cmc oan
bo mfs~&? a,
SYD:W
oilcls,