- OFFICEOFTHEATTOUNEYGENERALOFTEXAS
AUSTIN
GROVER’SEUERS
ATrORNEI GENERA‘
Uonomble Otto:?. loore
County Attzmey
ColorEao County
Colusalus, "iexas :,
Dear.l.ir. Lf3ore: '
Opinion Pie. O-7186
Court,, be ke$?
Court of Laveca Cowty, TCXFIS, is
bzly of.such Zistriot :
the mne;:ement en& control of
the Z:istrict shall be aaministcrea. end It is hcrcbp ea-
powered to do my ma all thln,;s neoezsary to carry out
the alns ofid pur2opz3 of this :%ct."
Article 1, soctlon 12, H. B. 362, s.u:?ra, provides as
ro11oi;s:
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."The County Judge, County Som3cslonere, the &es&
and Colleator of tame, the County Trentiurer, and the'
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~ileysltory are outhorihed to, and shall be required tot
pezbfom ~11 duties in connection with the iGood ?ontrol
District required of thea by law in connection with
nfftcial~.satters for Iavaca County,.aEd the County Audi-
tor shall be the Auditor for the Davaoa County Flood
,’Control District .*
Artiqle 2349, Vernon*s Annotetefi Civil Statutes, provj.d.es
El5 .fOllOW:
“The Court shall require the county clerk’to, keen
suitable books in which shall be recorded the oroaeed?cms
of .-eaoh term of the ,oourt; which record shall be read hia
signed efter eaoh term by the oounty Judge, or the member
presiding aod attested by the clerk. The clerk shsll also
reoord all authorized pmoeedlng of the court between
tenus; and suoh record stx?ll be read and signed on the
llret day, of the tern next aftem such prooeediqs occurred.*
‘Article 2345, V.A.O.S,., provides as follows: ..
“The county clerk shall be ix-officio clerk of the
‘Comfssioaera court; end he shall attend upon each toti
of s~eic?oormlssioners court; preserve and kee;, all books*
papox%, records and effeots belonginS thereto, issue all
notfces, writs and process neoessary for the proper excou-
tion or the povjers and duties of the comiaaionors court,
;I& perform all suoh other duties as my be prescribed by
. 3,
The v:ord’*prooeedings I1 in’krtiole 23.49 SUD.TC 5s~ used in
its ordinary some and mans the offloial funotioasLof’the court.
Such functions are not limited to any particular olesc of functions,
hut on the contrary they include every official act docc by the aen-
hers of the oourt in the course of their sessions.~ ‘,
We, therefore, ahsvper your questSoh nuslber one In -the aego-
tin.
Be answer your question- number two $n the affimative~
Tour question nunbar three cannot be answered properly in
the arfimatlve or ne(;ative. However, no &vise y3u thet, in viw.9
of the statute6 cited, supr-FI, and the wozelny of Article 1, 2eotion
1, quoted in part trox IT. D. 362, ou?ra, it is- the duty of the COUnty
Clerk to keep officially and record all of the proceedings OS: *he
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Colorado County Flood Contml Dlotrict.
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Trusting, that we have fully answere?I your inquiries,
vie are -.
Very truly you23
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