OFFICE OF
THE&J!TORNEY GE~RAL
PRICE DANIEL
ATTORNEY GE?nmAI. February 20, 1948
Hon. Wllliati.L.Xerr, President
Board of Regenta
Stat.e'~Teschera
College
Mlbland, Texas op1nlou Ilo.v-509
Re: Transfer of fuuds from
acilaryapprdprlatlotie
for 1948 ~Sr;tpmsr
Sea-
slon to balmy a ro-
prltitlonb ioF $7-
1948 Long &salon.
Dear Sir:
We Pefer to'your letter of recent date which
stated in aubstcmoe a8 iollows:
y~I;sgiala++e in Acts 1947, 50th ;.
bg. H. B. 246; p. 662; agpTi&-' :
ted fi5ir86bo for eslatiles'forul 08s.
State'T&aeheraCol.lee for the X947-48
8
long Beaalon, and $4~,%2.00 for salaries
for the 1948 auamer seatsion.
The Board of Regents approved salar-
lea at this echo01 f* the long s~aslon
amounting to $199,786.00;.thw'xiei?eaaita-
tlng the augmentlug oi,the appropriated
amount,
The Veteran8 AdxlnlstmrtloCha~ been
lov in paying the amount due that se.hool
9and the others~under OUF jurlsdictlti).""
For thst~~reason;’the ~Pr&ldent of, &al Row
would like to t%nsfer $18,401.00 from the
8-r sohool approprl+lon into the long
sescrlon~approprlatlon. For.the summer
aetmlon, the salaries will be paid out of
the renmlnlng funds in the summer appraprla-
tlon, oat of looal'funds and tht'funds which
may thexibe Wallable f%om the Veterana.Ad-
minl.atratlon.
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Ron. Wllllam L. Kerr, page 2 (v-509)
Qtiestlon: l&y the transfer proposed
above legally be made?
The appropriationmade td Sul Rosa State
Teaahere College by the 50th Legislature,provides:
n
A wt 31,
,L
3~8
1. Salaries
Summer School
:: &ilnt6nance,
equipment and
travel 30,000,00 30,000.00
4. Improvement+
and repairs 1OC.500.00
OF TOTAL $33~337.06 $d*
The @&aeral Provisiona of t* 1947 iXpproprla-
tiims .A&--Rdw&tldnal Instltutldzia,'at page 666; 1947
Sesalon Ltwa, read in part as follo%rs:
%ubse&lon (2). S&&y ~Pro~l~~oas.
The rate of the salary paid an employee
of any educational lnstitnt$~hqmed ..
herein for services durQg ti;.
stammersas- :
slon shall not exceed the salary rate, :~
paid the employee for the came os?alml-
lar aervlcesg in that ~ns~ltutlon during ,,
the preceding longseesion.. ,..
"Full-timeemployeee.;on.tvelve (12)
montha basis may recelve'not iwre thaa
Five Hundred Dollare ($500) for aorreep6nL,~
denoe cburse &l/or extension center teach-
&&and m&y ziot'bepaid addltlonel mone3
for aumer school teaching &ml full-tire
employees on a.nlne (9) ,mo&he bash IPS~be
w%d *or oorreanondenoeand/or extenslti ':
Dollars -($500) per annum for oorrespondenw.
ootuwe te&hln&-duriiigthe ilscS1 year and/or
ewlon oenter vork,durlng the reg
months eesslon."'(Eiephasla ours.
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Hon. William L. Kerr, page 3 (V-509)
For many years prior to the 1948-49 blenn&irn,
the Leglalature.haaltedzed in particular the apeclflc
salaries to be paid to each and Avery professor bnd ln-
atructor on full time employment for the nine months
long term; and to each and eiery admlnlatratlve,&al-
for long term purpoaea, the Legislature heiaheretofore,
as it now doe@ in the 1947 Act, provided an additional
lump sum appropriationto care for the professora, ln-
atructora and other persons employed to teach.or to per-
form other services during the summersession, and who
were not employed on a twelve ironthsservice baa&k. See
H. B. 173~ Item 155, pi 740 dedgnat@ "Summer Sssa+bn,
Resident teaching and admlnlstratlon ; Item.243, [‘*763;
Item 86,~~. 766; Item 288, p* 776; ~Item132, g0 7 1,
Item 2X3& p. 786; Item 94, p. 790 designated SUmer-
4, pe 792; Item 74 p. 795; Itep PO,
and Item 77, pe 600. ":
ThCthlrd paragraph.of Subsection~(2)in-the
General Provlalons of H, ~B. 173, Acts 1945, which pM-
vision appears aubatantlallyreenacted in Stiae$tloti ~(2)
In B. B. 246, Acts 1247, above quoted, anthorl,sda-the
use of the lump aum Summer ~School"approprlkitlo~k far
salary payments to full time employees otia nine months
basis and to other peraoxianot employed on a twelve
iaonthsbasis for teaching Summer So&o1 or for other
services performed during the remslnlng three months of
the fiscal year, the sumpr months or abort session.
The 50th Leglslatnce in Hi ?a 246 has depart-
ed from the practice of ltemlelng salaryispproprl~atidns
for the long beaalon ~of the State Colleges. In its bien-
nial approprlbtltinfor the flacal year's1947-48,and 1948-
49 it has made;'first, a lump sum apptioprlation ltemlzed
as "1. Salaries* in the w College approptilatlonsand
in addition thereto~a lump sti~appropriatlon'ltemized aa
"2. Summer School'. The Leglslattu-e having continued to
approprlate~alump sum under item~deslgnated"2. Sum-
mer School", we believe It was its Intention when it apr
proprlated a lump sum under item designated "1. Salaries"
,.that this latter appropriationwas to cover all the Sal-.
arles for the long session and twelve montha employees
which heretofore we'reprovided for by the l$emleed aal-
ary method.
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Hon. William L. Kerr, Page 4 (V-509) .
The item designated as "1. Salaries" in the
Sul Ross appropxletlonconstitutinga specific approprl-
atlon to be used for the payment of salaries to persona
employed for the long.sesslohof the College and others
employed on a twelve months basis, It may be used only
for the a&eclflc purposes $ppro$rlated. 'EheIt&u de*&-
nated as 2. Summer School constitutinga apeclflc,ap-
proprlatlonto be used for salary payments to full time
employees on a nine months basis or other persons not
employed on a twelve months basis for teaching Summer
School or for other services,performed during the re-
maining three months of the fiscal year, the summer
months, It follows that the same or any portion there-
of may not be tranafePredtherefrom to be expended for
long session salary payments. It is elementary, of
course, that,an appropriationmay be used only for the
purpose eIpreaaed therein or necessarily lmplled there-
from.
We have consideredalso the thlra paragraph
in Subsection (2) of the General Provisions tif,H.~B.
246, 50th Legislature,and advise that such provision
does not authorlie the proposed trtuxafer of funds from
the Summer SchOol appropriationtd the long teriq apjws-
prlatlon, the aame purporting to authorlae tr*ferti of
only those Items or parts of items wlth+n the totals of
e&oh of the speolfla approprlatl~~. 1
SIRmARY
' :
The Board of Regents of the State
Teachers Colleges is not iuthorlaed lib
tranafbr ar use funds Xpptioprlatedfor
Sul Ross State TeaohertiCdl16 e~under
item dealgnateil"2. 3-r -30
% 001"
" in
H. B. 246, Aota 1947;'for the paymeiitof
tialiarlea
of long session employees who
abe provide9 for in ap#$oprliktion lteti
designated 1. Salrrles in aald Bill.
Yours very truly,
APPROVED: ATTORREfGEBEIuLI,OFTEIAS
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FI T A33ISTAKC
AT&RREXfflWER&
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Cheater E. Olllaon
Assistant
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