‘.
(~
.~
..I,
!I’, OFFICE OFTHE AII'ORNEYOENERALOFTeXAS
4
AUSTIN
i
-c.-
-a-
Honorable Charles H. Poteet, Page S
since Crane County ie not able to quallry
under the optional road law.
*We are intarested in having a reply as
soon so possible, since if we are doing eny-
thing ille@. we want to stop sane. Please
let us have your opinion by Marah 85th.”
Artiole
6785, Vemon*s Annotated Civil Statutes, re-
rerretlto in your letter, authorizing the appointment or a
apbclal road overseer, does not apply to Crane County an the
00naiti0ne a0 not axlet as speairiea 5.0 Articleu 6771-6769,
Vernon*e Annotetsd Civil Statutea.
Fran the facts stated in your letter, and for the
purposes 0r this opinion, we asuuw that you ham rorerrea
to a road superintendent as mentioned In hrtl~ls 6745, VW-
non’s Annotated Civil Statutes, WhlOhmds es follovm;,
*Thfheoo5alstafonare oourt of any county
subjoat to this law may appoint&d a aompetont
parson aa road ruperlntahcent ror auah oounty,
or one such superintendent in each oonsais-
sioners precinct, as it shall detemlns by an
order made at a regular tern thereof. Buoh
order shall be entered on the minutes Of ruoh
oourt, and shall not to vold.ror want or
form but a subetantial oomplianoe with the
grw~slorls or this subdivision shall be mri-
olent. Every road euper,intendent shall be a
quallried voter In the aounty or preolnot for
which he Is appointed, and shall hold his
orrics ror two years or until ramved by the
oonmisai~nerta dourt for g00a oauss. wo OountJ
ehall be under the operation of this law whose
ooimiasionara oourt does not appoint a road
sugerlntendent OCRsuper.!.ntendents,w
Artiales 6749-6761, provide:- for the appointnisnt Of
road superintendents, set forth their duties and powers, and
fix their salnry, elm.
Article 6743, Vernon*8 Annotated Civil Statutes,
provides :
%aeh road superintendent shall reoeive
suoh salary ea the comalusioner8 court may rix,
to be paid on the order of oaid oourt at atatrd
Honorable Charles EL Potwt, Page 3
lnterval.8. in tt0wtm 0r 18~ th6n rirt880
thoumnd lnhabltmta tho oounty superlnten-
dent’s mlary shall never exoeed one thowand
dol..LRrs per annuq and in aountles cb sore
than fifteen thowend inhabitants it shall
not 8X080a twelve hundred dollars per annum.
The Mlary or preolnot 8u~erintendent.r ln
00ukt0 or L~SO than rirtesn th0wMd in-
habitant@ still net ezoeed three hundred
dollars pier aoiauui, and la oountl,iro of over
fifteen thousand Inhabitants, it ahall mvev:
sxoeed rour hundred dollars mr annum.
court may suspend tha mlary of tiny rugerln-
tendsntk whom oontinued eervloes am not
needea.*
.Cr?me County has a population of 8,841 lnhmbitantr
aooordlng to the J.mt Bederal 13eaaua. It will. be noted that
hrtiale 8743 i)roVldes thnt win oounthe or lewd than flrtean
thousand inhabitante the oounty r:~patitendentis rslary etnU
aover eroeed one thoumnd dfdlara per annum . . .(I Thaw
ior8 the comtals810ner** court or Crane county 00Illd not
lw&y pay mid road su?erlntend.ent a salary emeedlng one
thouaend dollore per year.
BP
Ardell Wllliamm
Asrlstant
AWtoO APPROVEDAPR 7, 1941
u++----L