Untitled Texas Attorney General Opinion

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OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF. TEXAS

AUSTIN
Honorable I. D. Loormy, Page 2

veulltisa, !xlfnc:ooaponBnt
pmts of
the Stata, hstarr M powura or duties eeopt
thoore v&lah are elearlr set forth and do-
fiA6d it3 tht, bA8titUtiOA 8AAd #ktatUt#lSa L%a
statute8 have olearly rrtif?~dthe povmrlt
pr6soribotl tts dutiou and iq:osmi tha A-
bility of ths ~oa;nioaknerraxiff i&a mdlum
thrOu$h whioh tha differBAt o&&s ebt, acid
iroap theos etetutoa auot eo~o all t&s author-
ity Ve@tad iu th8 OOUDtiBS. . . . COBtdBSi8fiB~8
courts un, oourt*of llxltced
jurtmllotion
6~4 their autheritg extml~ only to mattom
pert%lnl~ to the gameral welfara of thalx
raopuotive ooimtlo~ and their powws an
only those ex reealy or fz@ledly aenfswrd
UWHI thornby % w, that is, by the Canstitu-
&a 6niE.lWtUt4 1 of
1 th isstate,*

ThBM ir Ilo6tlawitBin al6 st6to that wpreeoly
or by lmplloationauthcrizoo tho Cds~ionrrrQ CotsHi to
m& e th e lspwulitum rb6ve rentlonod. 'ilwcsforo,you ara
rerpoothillyadrlae4 that it 1e tha spfniou of thi8 drpart-
auct that tha Cdn#Zoaems Caurf ha8 no WtROPity w&at-
8Oefel) to pay TABabove MAtiOABd B;rroUn*or an f Oth6T
&liOmt, tli the f%UltF &i?$Bcl’ fUUil%6BiS5iO~B~O h8SOOh-
tioa of hxekrrpout of ray fumU got thu oounty. Xf *aid
maoont L paid, it awt Lo gd4 parronally b$ %ho ematy
Jtla~eMa fhu Oommi8lliener*.
Trusting that the roragelng fully answ?u% you?
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