OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN
Yonorable ~uUan itI Sebler
County Attornq, YaaEington Couaty
Drsnbaa, texar
my 6, lQ41r requesting
sed to !a353 a road distrlat
de a cortain area, the boom-
would not coibaide with any
ical ouhditision* of the
6 s ~oti fistrfct to be carved
cogm4eeicmrs precincts vtthin b
372
mm3 county Comdrdonwr* Court8 of thr
sorer61 countiss of this Stat4 may hore6Ster
establish one or tmre ro6d distrlots in their
res ctiro oounties, ad ray or xay not l*
01wr s tithin the boundaries and lisdts ef mob
distriots, vill6ges, tomi and 6nmlalp61 00~
porations, or my portion thereof, and 6~ or
6s~ not inoluda gswlousl~ croated road dir-
tries and polstic6.l subdltiaiona or peoincts
that hare voted and ls611ed rOQd b0M.a pW?m%nt
to seota.on 62 of Artio'le 8, of.the colsstltu-
tion, by entering an order deolarlmg ouch rosd
di6trict estab.lished 6&l del’ixdttg the boonlaF
ies thereoSr Prodded that nothltq In this
Aot 6hau be oonstnwd a0 a6 to pwent the
weation of defined road dietriot Rtld th0
is,auanoe of bOad6 Of sald distI'%Ots ia OoUtP
tiss having outstaMn& aounty-wide rosd bonds,
tua said del'imd road distriots 661~ be m3sted
in such oounties ia the luanner provided by
statute for the Greation OS def'ined road d&s-
trlots and Issuing the bond6 thereof.6 .
l’JdrA.atof the 39th Iap;ielatauw (1986) was
prseed ismxliately following ths SupPem Court*8 opinion
in mavning V. llooper(P. 6.) 70 Ltw &I. 330~ the lAr o h e r
Countf cad, and t&e Aat has bmn oaid to be *in c~mpli-
UW.3 with th8 holdi (uing v, Falls aormtq;.rs 8. W.
(2) 181, 1 Q* p*
It is cur ooustruotfoa of the statute that it8
brood l;uytags ~10th3s the Codsslonors* COUrt with power
to amate road dlstriots in tha county rithout rospeat
rh6t6OmJr tG other edsthg pOlitia SUbdiViSfOnS Of the
county, frolt which it Sollows that your quo&ion 6hOuld be
asirorcd in tha aSS@uatite..
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