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OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
i AUSTIN
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Honorabh 9. B. Buohahan, Jr
countr Attuna~
Val VHO Cwntt
Doldo,Texm
D.arSir~
requoraing our opinfon
oourt hat* hho attthor-
d tro tha aouaty by
on roads wh.toh led
8fgnaWd ooua$y road8
f owned and inelosed mob
oh hourrr or other pointr
8ur.a thue CuriMfla(t~
llf* mr quer*lon are rubrbutbhl4
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Ronorsblr3, 8. Buohhan, Jr., pa&@88
to bo deolgnatod as oouaty roads after fmprovumnt. Ssld
rado are not barred to publla use, but are not us04 to a
great extent by the general publla an& mah wo 88 ir made
by the publlo muld be oonoldeml a pennloslre use on the
pmrt or tbo lanndfmor. They are not roads rhloh the Cm-
Ipiooionero* Court lmn deobirod to be publlo road8 by mason
of pub110 moeoolt~ or upon proper applloatlonnude bF free-
holdora.
It @ems eleu t&t the above dooorlbed rota b
nothla(Bore than a prlv8trlyomod or oontrolled thorough-
far0 fat the use of the omero of ouoh la&. Artlolb6b9Sa-1
deflaea t&r words lrd tumo as w8d in suoh law, and uulor oub-
s8otlon (8) pub110 highway,as used In thr Aot, lo defined 80
as to lnoluU0 any rod, street. nap. thorouahien or brldm to
tbla State not klvatai awmd~or hwollrd, for the urooi
+ehloleomu vlikzn?0 whz ‘loglrlatlrr JurloUlotlon
u&u Its polio* pwu* Artlole6674q-t drfino8later.1roads
as r0iiw0:
*All rabo which prior to January 8, lOSO,
hod not beoomea part of the lyotom of State do-
ri&natod highways,iOr oonveienoo in this Aot
are rello4 *l8teral roads’ “.
X8 is our opinion tbt the latrral roads to rhloh the Aot re-
fero oan bo nathlog 8ore 8brui ouah ma60 as oorutltute a part
OS the aount~ rod system as oontradlotlnguloha4 irea the stata
fligh~a~ SyOtm; thUetW0, wa think the turds alloeatad to thm
OOuMieO tw th0 uoo on lateral roads unlu th8 prorloloao of
this &a wa%ldbe rootrlotod to the use on wdo oonotltotlry
a prt of the oount o tu md over which the oounty ooa&n$e
010110ro'ooura b. &lr%lotlon.
Truotlly that tho ioragoiw rtiotaotorily anowuo
fours rrrf tmlf
, ATrom GEImUL OT TEXAS