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i OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
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Honorable Coke Starewon
owernor OT Texas
AUatin, ?atPs
DearOWeraort
uo~elmoel*er
0 on oettutnrullyg
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vLlst&tute8,in
la fm follora~
earn0r, and the third
e a p r a 0tlalto
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ability, and shall aot
legal sdriner to
tlou to hle oth0r
rthwmf,auIbe
ehsirman oi stxLdboard.*
*In view or th8 worcung OF the secowl
requiremnt that *one &a11 be emplwec¶ in
swae buainesr ixxiustrf as a wage earnar,~
roula au oPflcer of a bank be aligibl+a Par
lbppolntlnentt In your o#on was it the
mnorable Coke Stwenmm - Bye 8
intent Of theLegislrturetolllolude fho
bttdneoa of bu\lrinr am a budmae lxulm-
try and is tub oiliaer of a bank who re-
ae.trea a regular oalar7, a wage earner
KithiB the meanfag Qf t&O SktUt&8t*
It is the Opinionot th%~ Dopaz'tmsmtthat]ram
%BQItit-Jshould be 911sllWsd in the nS&yatire. 1s bMe
this aQBOlUSiOB UpOIl the fQllOWh& QOEdii6F~tiQB#, iSI-
rslving a8 they d0 an origtnal determitation of the que8-
tioa propounded.
Pour letter doss not biaeloae what pariAeu10
offiocrr of the bask is iaolvsd, and what his dfltlu are,
but,invlw of theteuoxuhemlnaft8~ ud&mdfor our
an8wer abate, thlo a8a mm&eno di??umtoo.
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le will umtme that t&e offlorrris 8 *wage cam-
or., and that the bank, of ‘whiohhe is a twsdmr, 18 an
:zGwdP, dpin thetmaning e;rArtiole8)09 of t&e
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seetiaB a, of Pt%ele 88w Quoted by 7om eT%-
dmmoe, retbin&,are~ deiinite purpose on the part of
the Le~alature that the msmbertip of the8oar4*ould
aetmi8tof oreprowtttative of emplojsrs ofl&er, a
rep38cantatire of labor, who hUmelf im a age earner,
and, last4, oi a luger. In psecrrlbial; tlw el%gibil-
it7 of the representrtlrsal labor, the statute retptirem
thathebe~employed in s~ambusimb88111&1st~. We
think thinis a sigxdfloaatlisdtatlanuponthe eligibil-
ity of such mmber. It is not amugh to meet the req~~Im-
ment of the statute that he be an empl~es at" scme bald-
nom, or ol soae itadwtry . semtstbe employedin llw
wbudness industry..
Itor, the wwde, Vttsined and %3dtt8t.~*, are
very broad terms, when standing alQne, but when eolBin@id,
as in the st8tut8, they hat0 a msre reetri0tedmeanhag.
8tme~10 Cok4 S~W*B*~B - popa S
bank8 a8 iniluetrlal aonoerns. InduatrialeeBeemw,in
the popularundentandlng, are aema&ateadth thebud-
BOltS OT trade, ll!aBustacture,
and the 11k0. eardner T.
Truetees Qf Mnin Street M. E. Church Or 0ttumwa, Iw8,
244 H. X. 667; Dessen r. I)ey.rtmmt of Labor an6 Ix&m-
tries Of Oasha~ton, 66 Pac. (3) 867; People x3xrel.
Pullamr. kelly (a. S*) 1715w. 8. ma.
A&B, 10 thak, an osfloar O? 8 bank, whiah
butk,re hare roe& irran omplger within the mmtuhg ot'
the statute, ltamareaearl alleoable to the mplu71~.
olese, so far DP ellgS.billt7
Is eeneerne&, then he &a
to the wage-earnerclam.
With groat ru)oct, we 0rtt
ver7ttml77ew6
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ATTORIJEY GENERAL OF !fmS