OFFICE OF THE AlTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN
Eonomblo Erae8t Ctulma
county Attorney
El Paso county
El Pare, Tour
Dear SLrr
Your rewert for n reoelved”&id oare-
fully eonridered by tblr de uote fmxu your re-
Que8f a8 fOlluu8I
8' Court reque8ted
amount that oould
e Conb8rlaner8~ Court that the
there ~8s 80111~
lhltstlon other ttL&?thla cn deputy
constaSlco p’ar,and that the MX~E~-, hnt! been a.ll~+
ed at the tine that the Ccuntz placed the Castat;le
of Precinct 1 03 6 relay ba8i8, The offlcsrel esl-
hV dO"S IlOt li.l!l.tt
.¶.Yy hl8t&bb?8 t0 B BLaris~ Of the
Sonomblo Enu8t hinn, We 2
aaount Feorlv’ad, a@ I reoall in 1935, but I find
n0 prOt181On liElitin&the a?nOU!Lt
Of 8wy,Of de-
putier as depondiqg upon the mount o? lnoaae.
“Hould you pl4are adtlrr 1sevhether or not the
8010 Unit plmod upon a doputy'r ralary 18 Artiale
E;r;z;la,l?-a, thoreor, aad if not, vhat ir
.
~h0 paptiution 0r n PISO county, fw88, aroording
to the 19hO Federal c4Il4U8, 18 131,067 idUSbit8llt8, lmd w.?
understand that its preolnot 0rrker4, a8 ~411 a8 oolmty a,CT1-
aers, are oaqmuatrd upon a ralary bartr,
Arti 39124, %OtiOLi 17, ‘rl4l'IMXl'8
Annotatsd T-88
civil btatUt48, rOti ID fO110Y81
“(a) The tom8 @Precinct Offloerrt u ured in
thi8 Act M&Xl jU8tiO48 Of the p4fSOe4nd OonStabhS.
'ID ill 4OUIItiOSin th18 Stat4 8UOh pZ'6OinOt
offloerr 8hall ecntlnue to be canpenrated r0r their
8OrYi448 on a f44 bar18 Until the Cf%m%84ioiI4r8'
Court shell b6vo detctrmiaodothsrvire in rooordwee
Vith the pl’OVi8iCQ8Qi bOOtiOn 2 Of this Aot.
"In oountler vherola th4 Cmm1Irslonor8~ Court
8Wl have d~teminsd that pr4:lnCt oftloorr shall
be omp4nrated on aa annual 88lary b&818, but vhsrsin
they have determIned th8t oounty offloor ahall not
b0 80 ooqenasted, th4 GifiaOr8’ h.bSy yuad Of 8rid
OOWtJ 8hall b0 COlQOP6d and R&.4 u2,Of tOO8, O-8-
81~8 end other ompenratlon aolleoted by the pre-
alnet ofiIo4rr oi ruch co-x&y and doporlted In r&id
fund, uad CUCh fund8 a8 may be trmriorred to 8&d
fund by the bt’33d8SicXl’3r8’ Cailrtof the oowty.
“(b)In countier vhor6 it 8hall have been
Cetermined that precinct offlccm rhall be compensated on
M annual 8~de.rg ban18 It rtall be tbe duty of the Com-
mlssloaerst Co-lrt of much county to fir ths takry
alloved to t~.zhofflarzr. Fact ?i raid OffiCOl'8 Shall
be paid in mommy a? aritual t31aq in tvelve (12) equal
insttihOnt8 of not leas ikEA the t&al 8m earned an
Honorable Xrno8tOuina,p4v 3
o~IU~tlan lmo d by hir in hi8 OffiOiti aam-
Oity for the ii8081 y6e 19% rad not U4r4 then th4
#!ulmm mount alloved ruoh OfflOO~ under 1~8 lxl8t-
w AU@@t 24, 19%.
'In lountlo8 in whloh preolnot 0ffloor.r are paid
a 8&U7, U l~ZWtiOtb fW th0i.l’ 84XV1008, 8wb
offlOU dO8idig to lp p a int
o n6 OrIWOdrputl.8 o r
Uli8tUbt8 8hrl1 ti. al.kOCLtiOXl t0 th4 C46d881OA-
lr8t Co ur t
for authority to appoint eueh deputy or
"In COwti48 vhsrein the oounty OffiOOr8 nmned
in tbi8 tit U’4 008q?6n88tSd On the bui8
Of M lU%UUd
rrlary, the St&a of Tsxar 8Nl not be ahargd tith
and 8Nl not pay any feo or oaml8slon to any pre-
oinat offloer for any rerrloer by him porformod, but
lld offloer ahall be paid by th4 County out of th4
Offloercl'Salary tund rush fee8 and acmaairrl0n8 as
would Otbsrri84 be paid hir w the State fOF 8UOh 84r-
V10.8." (Undersoorlng ourr)
Artlolo 3902, Section 5, Vernon*8 Annotated Texar Civil
StatUt88, l’48d8 a8 fO11OV83
"5. In to u ntler h a ving l po ul8tlon of one
hundred thousand and 0x30(100,001P aad not more than
one huadrod and fifty thousand (150,000) i.nhabitant8,
fLr8t U818tMt or Chief deputy not t0 lxooed TVsnty-
rlx Hundred ($2600.00) Dollar8 per anUrn; head8 of
dopartawatr may be allovsd by the Co85tii88lanerr~ Co*;rt,
vhsn in their judgment ru4h ~ovul44 18 jwtlfied,
the 8upL of Two Hundred ($?90.00) till&F8 F'3rWUEJ
ln addltlon to the amount heroin alloved, when ruch
hsadr of department8 raught to bs appointed 8htil
him4 prsvlou8ly lsrvod the oounty or polltiti rub-
divlrion theroof for not 1088 than tW0 COEttiUOU8
.
Honorable Pnert Gulq, pagr I
l
gdemzr
y4U’8)
.
y - t h
OthOr uSi8tUlt8,
Hundred ($2300.00) r eo
d4pUti48
olsrks not
Dollnrr par
Or to
Th4 8vOifiC prOti8iOiU Of Arti 3120, s4OtiOZI 17,
1. A. C. IL, rupra, vlth reforenoe to Deputy CoMtrble8, vlll
olouly oontrol over the senerel proti8len.80s Artiole 3902,
deotlon 5, supra, rolatlto to dOpUti48 generilly, irrr0ru u
8&UiO8 of deputy OOnstabler Of El Puo County are oanoernod.
You are thorofore ro8peotfully &Svlsed that th4 ram-y
0s 4 Deputy Constable of El Pa80 County, Texas, 08mot legally
exoesd the 8um of $1500.00 per mnum.
Very truly your8
ATT9RNEfM0IZULOFTEXAS
Vta. f. Fanlq
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