Untitled Texas Attorney General Opinion

616 OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF. TEXAS AUSTIN Honorable I. D. Loormy, Page 2 veulltisa, !xlfnc:ooaponBnt pmts of the Stata, hstarr M powura or duties eeopt thoore v&lah are elearlr set forth and do- fiA6d it3 tht, bA8titUtiOA 8AAd #ktatUt#lSa L%a statute8 have olearly rrtif?~dthe povmrlt pr6soribotl tts dutiou and iq:osmi tha A- bility of ths ~oa;nioaknerraxiff i&a mdlum thrOu$h whioh tha differBAt o&&s ebt, acid iroap theos etetutoa auot eo~o all t&s author- ity Ve@tad iu th8 OOUDtiBS. . . . COBtdBSi8fiB~8 courts un, oourt*of llxltced jurtmllotion 6~4 their autheritg extml~ only to mattom pert%lnl~ to the gameral welfara of thalx raopuotive ooimtlo~ and their powws an only those ex reealy or fz@ledly aenfswrd UWHI thornby % w, that is, by the Canstitu- &a 6niE.lWtUt4 1 of 1 th isstate,* ThBM ir Ilo6tlawitBin al6 st6to that wpreeoly or by lmplloationauthcrizoo tho Cds~ionrrrQ CotsHi to m& e th e lspwulitum rb6ve rentlonod. 'ilwcsforo,you ara rerpoothillyadrlae4 that it 1e tha spfniou of thi8 drpart- auct that tha Cdn#Zoaems Caurf ha8 no WtROPity w&at- 8Oefel) to pay TABabove MAtiOABd B;rroUn*or an f Oth6T &liOmt, tli the f%UltF &i?$Bcl’ fUUil%6BiS5iO~B~O h8SOOh- tioa of hxekrrpout of ray fumU got thu oounty. Xf *aid maoont L paid, it awt Lo gd4 parronally b$ %ho ematy Jtla~eMa fhu Oommi8lliener*. Trusting that the roragelng fully answ?u% you? iapulxy,wo uru