Honorable A. P. ?restwood
County faUltor
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Dear Sirr opinion O-190
lie:Whether tSO.00 allowe 60
County 5uperlntendentsfor
expewes under Artiole 8700,
Hevine Civil Statutes,
1988,ooven only traveling
and oar expeano, or both
traveling lrpenae and oftloe
expense.
your roquent r0r an opinion rr0rn this depert-
mant by latter of Yay 16, read8 am follow:
*iteieringto Artiale BOO0 LC.9.
1QSS relative to Salary bnd Rxperme
ellowed Gnmty superintendent.
me county superintendent0r
smith county ia allowed rm the
State end County Atailable tiU
fSO.00 per month for expwaes.
WCll you please give m8 a rul-
.$nguhether or not thlr,ooveml o
travellug and bar expeaae of dose
"'it
oover o ffio slxpeme ae wall.'
Artiole e700, Berind civil Statutes of 198%
xhloh 6ekmlne8 the anausl salary to be paid the CoUaty
Buparlnteadsnt8,band on the 8oholastlo poplatlon of
their rupeative eountlbs, oontains the following ralo-
rant pxwinlous pertaining60 the expensea or the County
Superlntendentsr
Inmakingthe annual
Honorabh A. P. Prertuood,May es, 1939, Page Q
sohoole, the oounty sohool trustees
shall el8o make an annual ellowanor
out ot the State a.d county arell-
able funds for mlary and expenses
0r the orrioe or the oountp superln-
tendent, end the same ah~llbe pm-
rated to the eohoola OaaIng under the
supervisionor the oounty sohool map-
erlntendent. . .The oounty board of
trustee6 may make auoh rurther prori-
slon ea it deem neoe,saaryror orrloe
and traveling 'expense8ior the county
maperlntendentand any aeslstant hs
may hare; provided that erpenbiturea
ror orrloe and traveling expenses
ahall not exoeed three hundred dol-
lars per mama, and the county board
of trustees amy make 9rovlslon for
the *aploymentof a oompetent ataaist-
ant ior the county superintendentwho
shall, %n addition to Us other du-
ties, aot aa attendanceorrioer; . . .*
The ftetlaedCivil Statute8 or 1911, &W.ole
Z9S8, hot8 Or 1907, oontalned the follOwi.ugprovlalonr
-. . .that the county ruperintendent
ahall be allowed eny sum not to ex-
oeeQ One Hundred Dollars per year ror
stsmpi,,8tatlonary,expressage and
prlntlngta be paid by the Camnlaalon-
em* Court out or the oounty general
fund. . .”
&IOtraveling experue wao thus allowed, and auoh expense
of orfioe was rertrloteato suoh olseslrlOatlons89
rlmllar to the ltmms Hated.
By the Aot@ of 1920, Third Called Seaalon,
Chapter 67, the Legislatureevidently seeing that this
$100.00 per year lxpeuee WM Inadequate,+d that the
County superintenawt wan put to quite an expeziseln
going frm oae lohool to another In hia oouuty, amended
Art1014 E7SS Retimed CIrIl Statutes, 1911, making auoh
expense proviaions read substantiallythe mama as nov
appear in the Aot8 or 1923, our present Article 8700,
Revised Civil Statutes, 192S.
. .
Honorable A. P. ?restwood,May 83, 1939, Page b
It will be noted that sinoe the amendment aa
oolltalnedla Artlole Q700,.to the Aots of 1907, Artlol~
BIZR) Rmiaed Clrll Statutes, 1911, the aounty tntateea
are dlreoted to m&e an annual allowanoe out 0r thm
State and oounty available nulls for salary and expenses
or the orrio 0r tba County Superintendent. TboLegla-
la&U% no doubt intended for the vmrds "expenaea"otthe
offloeW to be siren a liberal and broad meaning. It
does not appear, hover, that ths Loglelature intended
to ~oontlneauoh srponse to traveling expense, or to re-
atriot suoh expenseto thoee ltuus formerly enumerated,
ltrlotly speakinfgf~e~4-;y~ht~ $Ggyswe
stsmpe and the 1
aoastrue the antlre'Aotto allow reaaonebleand neoia-
lary expenses inaurre4 in the legal and proper~~oonbot
of the ofrloe or County Superlntenden$. Thie TIOW i8
6upported also by the provlelon in the atatuta which
liepitsthe amount of 8uoh expendituresmade by the
Cou&ty Superintendent,end with any aeellrtant., if any,
whloh provides 9hat expenditureafor offloe and trav-
ellng expenses shall not axoeed Three Hundred-%llara,*
. . . (undemoor6 ours).
Our attention is also Oe.lledto the followlug
*orda of the Oaptlon of the bill enaotea in 1980 at the
Third Called Sea81on,Chapter 37, whioh reed:
"An Aot to ameod Xrtiole Q7SS8,. . .
relating,60 the nliwles or said
OQUXI~JSuperintendents of pub110 in-
ltruotlon, lnoreaalngthe aalariea
or aald county Superlntendente,pm-
tiding for QfriOe aad tmTeli!I& OX-
pansem;...W
We think the language oontalned in Art1010
Q900 1s oloar as to the llmlt that 0811be set aalde by
the county trustees and expended by the County Superin-
tend&,, whether suoh OOTem stationary aa stumps or
lxponmesof tmTo1, or uhether he has an assistant or
notr Reading the Aot as b whole, lt is evidentthat
tha pmrlalon llaltlng expenditureato Three Hundred
Dollar8per mmuo fbr otfloe and travellng.expenaea,
ap-
plies to the term ~expeuaea or the orrloe or the county
without dlstlngulkhlngbatrrsen exponw
Superint.and.uW
laourred while tMTeliI@ and purely OfZioe expense,
It la, therefore, the oplnlon or this depart-
meut that any mm, not to oxoeed Three Hundred Dollars
Honorable A. P. Prestuood,Xay 2.5,1939, Page 4
per annum, ellowod ES lxponaes under the prorlelonaof Ar-
tiole 8700, devised Civil Statutes, 1925, would oovmr and
lnolude both tmTelbg and oirloe expense.
Trusting the ebOTe ammra your question, we re-
Mill
Yours Tery truly
BY
APPROVED: