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OFF& OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
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i!onora’blo Joe Fultz
County Attormy, Crimoa’County
pdoroon, Term
Dear kfr. Fultz:
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a Cbunty Auditor
1 apgoint:nent as
0 statutes?.
1, together with a
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itiny of county affairs. For oountles
Grims County, 6rticlcs 1646 md 1647,
Statutes, provide forthe appointnont
and mticleo 1641 and 1646n, Ver-
s, provide for the appointment of
We understsud thnt your coffimiosionsrs~ court does’not
contemplate opcratin(; unat92either oi: the above provisions of
the law.
Iti 1s uroll settled th:iC the comxissioncrs’ court h%s
Only such goxer and authority as. the stututoo aad Constitution
confer upon it, oithor expro ssly ox by nocosoary implication.
11 Toy. Jim., p . 566~63
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nonordble Joe FultZ, p.i60 2
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Bio'hsQt+found no statutes either oYprbsBlg or by
Implication oonferring authorlty upon the. com&.ssioners* court
or count&s of this clanoirication to employ a person either
with o? without the quclificotlons required of either a special
or re&ular county auditor, to perform the duties or render the
services of such auditors without complying with the provisions
of’ Article 1641 and Article 1646a or Article 1646 and Article
1841, Vernon’s Annotated Civil Statutes.
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Theretore, it’ is the opinion of this departnsnt, and
we eo bold, that said question be aos*tiuroUin the negative.
Yours very truly
~T%uX?EYO?CW&iLOF TEXAS
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. Robert L. Lattinore, Jr.
Assistant
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