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OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN
]:oaorablef!.T. Dribble”
CGWty izttGl%iy,
Jmla county
(xll&th~r;e
ite, Texas
near Sirs
itll.eUire end
then con the County Attorney,
County Clerk
County Judge
aske a eharse apsinst tho County for their regular
miodmeanor feceslike cases end op;roVed by the
Comnfssioners aourt under t:k.atLu% is ahar@+able
under and oan logally .aol.loat
tha 88x8 thet way
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nonorable A. T. 'Fribble, page'2
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Yills County, TOXCS, 00s 3 populatloh of loss than
tmnty thousand.(20,COO) lnhabltsnts 6caordlnS to tho 1940
Federal hV3US, 8Q(f ita OOWIty OffioeSa. ax6 cOqmnS6ted on
a fee basis.
Said Senata Bill 44,.6non(!othit? things, ohongys
the cl6ssiPla3tlon of a juvenile ~rooeodln~ Srorrthat OS a
orluinal noturs to thot of a aivil 0866.'
Z6 bave csrefu&ly oxmilned CInato .Bill 44 atid~TOUSC
~113.830 of the 40th Leglslaturo of Tcxns and find that neither
of thaz author168 the county to pay esy r68S to any officers
tar their servfaes lr'juvenilo oag6s.
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Article 6124; vernon~sA6nototed Texas Civil 3t6tutes
authorSxes the aouctf.frozn?ihich 6 6610 tima 16 oo~vlttaa to .'
any State txalntnF school to pay to tbe officer coriveylng8ucb male
child to any State training,sohool tho actual treveling 6x~onseo
of such officer and child end .f~v6~~dollers(:$S.OO)additional.
Artlcle.bl36, VerncWs Annotated T2ies.Civil Statutea,
authorizesthe aounty fro% whiah a girl juvonilc .ls aomitted to
the Qirls* Tralning.Sahool to pay'the actual and .neoessaryex-
penses of the party aonvepiap.aridthe &lrl~oonveged.~ This
atstute.further provldes.the court shall desi968t.esome reputa-
ble womm to oonvey the CgUl to th6 lastltutlon.
Opinion Eo..O-5602 of this department, a oogy of rhlch
ia onolosad herewith, ep6olrloally pasces'on o ,poltiooof'your
request fo*.opinlon 3nd spaaifically holds that S. 6. 44,.svpra,
does not authorize the county to pa: eny $%ba-to any officelsOf~
the ~oounty uourt for their services in juvenile a38es. X6 con-
firm the holdlag. .:
Llke~lae, It la our'further opinkm that B. FL 63C,
Wpra, does not authorize'the county to pay any fees to officer3
of the oounty oourt for their aervioos in .juvGmile cd8es.
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Honarable A. -T. Pribble, pose 3
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?:etherefore holdr
1. Koither S. B. 44~nor B, 13. 630, supre,
authorizes the ~county to pay any fees to any offioere .
ot the county court for their services In juvenile
CQSBQ.
There -Is no authority under whiah oouoty
judpes ookty~attornsys and oounty clerks oen collect
If& &om. the county in juvmila cases. (Forzerly and
@Or to the enaot2ent or S. B. 44, supra, aounty judces
mm entftled to collect a three (,3.00) dollar $rlaL
fee in juvenile oases under Article 1062, V:A. C. C. P.,
es II_arirz.inel
case tri,edand rinrlly dhposed of-by the
00,urt. See opinion x0. o-917 or this aepertreot, dated
June 14th, 1939, 8 oopy or whioh is enclosed. Ilowevar,
thle opinion 1s now no longer ap;?licable8s the I.e&is-
loture in s. B. 4?, supra, in 1943, chongad the alassifid
oetion or juvenile Oa8ia from oridnal oases to civil
oasss.)
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3.. The sheriff or other ofrfaer conveylne.a
nelo child to any State trelning school is entltled to
oolloct from the comittlng oounty the a&-ml treveling~
expens:~s0r such orriO?r and cbfld epd rive dollerq ($5.00)
edd5tlcnaf., .,.
4. Actuel end’neaeasary eqmnsee of the perty
conveying a ~gir1 comittad t:.the Girls’ Troininp,Sohool
end of the p,irloonveyod should be psid by the oouuty
from l+hichthe girl lo conwitted to the pereon oonveying
the girl. Art. 5136, Dupre, furthor provide8 thet the
court’shell desi(mste aorpereputtrble:aoaanan
to convey the
girl to tho Inst5~tutlon.
Your8 VdlFYtruly
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