OFFICE OF THE AlTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
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AUSTIN
countyAttarnel,
Titu8 County
Mt. Pleamant, Torta
Dear Nr* 7anOel OplnfOn X0. O-7360
Bet sbutdorn 0
newcrpsperto lnsta
Your request for an op
nttor is as'follower
*I hami'pour opinion
the other opinion l(O*O-7 le aonfue-
lag (LO regarding the iume
ed your opin
that oertain
aooiden t , oa not be euoh
a break as t
la&al public
aam0 Contpan~
down entire-
tall 8 new
e cause enou@
ati be eli-
to publioh logal noticea or 50
Ion a OLBO in whlob a fast ismae
e opinion bi tbie department that your
should bo anewered to the &feat that
mob ehutdoua for one week, in order to install a ner preen,
Wouldnot render the paper ineligible thdreatter to publish
localnotloea under the law.
You have oormotly quoted our holdinn In Opinion
lo. 0-7286,
that a break in publloatlm on looount ol aooident.,
aamaltr, and the like, would not omstltute auob a 'break80 to
,.
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580
nonorablot. V. Vauoe - pago 0
ywndrra paper InelIgible to looept leEa publloatione-
We tbfnk tho typo of caum ior the Sailtare to put
out en imoue of a neuepaper mentioned by you la a oaaual ty,.
Iebmter’o new InternationalDlotlonary thus definer tbe word
'cRRur3ty~I "1. Cbanoet aocidsaf$ omtinpmoy; al 80 that
rhjch hapeenn without design , or’ without heina foraaeen; en
roc~llent. Tblo 10 the sense of the word lcamualtf fn which
ve used It in our opinion. Certainly, tbe ne0eselty for dlo-
oardlnga prom and installing a new one in a newspaper print-
lnu oif’loe 2s not an act of dealt, but arimea from a ocntln-
geng, that 10. the ln8Uequre~ or uniltneer of tbe proem $xeti-
fylna ita roplaoeunent~
.Tbe lord goa,maalt~ le of broader ll&tiaanoe thu!
the rord gaoaidentv; tbae a destruotlon of e press Erllgbt-
nln# would not be an lcoldent~but It undoubtedly would 66 a
oamual tf. Xoreover, If the press were blom up b7 an hoin-
diary*mbomb, it would not be an aoc$bmt~ but would be a
caaraltyoi the flrat ran&* Our 1 anpage quoted by pm --
vacolaentl and oaeualty~ or the like , ma8 stem broaQer,ln
lta scope than eltber or both or the word* laocldent~ and
leamaltyo. It w uld lnolnde other delryr or interruptlone
trm Jailer otuss s ior 8 break in pub1ication.
Xoreoter. lnnounceff lm not lImIted
tbe rule We h a r e
to those accident and camualty attu8tionnrwhich create sn ab-
soluteneoeasfty for interruption, but on the ocntrary, would
lnolode tboso rltuationewhere the exl~enolea ot .tbebuslneam
reyuired better tacilltlea an6 service, or laok of publication
was dne to labor troubler, shortage of paperr and the like, or
humanitarian ~onrideratlonm~suob as obaeming the Cbrletnme
and Wew Year’* holiday@, *fled tbe.order - .tlmo ott".'~~
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r,’ ATTORNEY OEMERAL OP TEM8
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Untitled Texas Attorney General Opinion
Combined Opinion