OFFICE OF THE ATTOM!EY t3.341~~~ OF TEES
AUSTlN
Hon. Dart Foxd, page 2
one weelrlotime amount in dollnrs nnd cants to
more than the snle value of food era othar oon-
.moait5.os
v-- -for hUir;nco:Wumotizi--~oi-k-bsuc~ li-
cEn= ~~"XiGii TioursA bo erXEiaT~b%ur
likingrcquirdC-GTpag any So0 thersfor, to a
augplenontsry license authorizing him to sell
suoh'bcvaragcs durin& cny hour of nny dey. * 8 * n
(Undorsooring ours).
After aaxeful rasasrob, f:ti
nra unable to find
nny 0nu3S in Toxss, Or out&33 Of Texas, construing the
phreSe Vcod and other cor~oditios~~for humcn consumption"
BB to what co:~~oditicaare icoludod within these tens.
It isour opinion that tha conatruotion given to
this phrase by the Liquor Control noerd, according to
your letter, 5.~3 correct; nnmely, that the phrrrrje
includes
only thoce oo?&zoditioswhioh er? tuken into the hum=
syetcm for intarnal consumption. This oomtruction
WOUlil, or oouxsB, exoludo cucS comoiSitioa :I.!8
oifprf3,
oigorottos, tobAaco, OhoiVinggum, Cto., moationed by you.
Ao to your Ssoond question, it will be observed
from a reading of the atstute , that there era no cords
or terms employed in the str;tutowhloh in onyuiso re-
striot the quotud provioton to me&n-the oonsuzaation~of
such ooi.zo.dities
011the prar?iSeswhore sold. There is
no embiguity or uncsrtainty in the stutute,;it is sua-
ccptible of but one oonstruotion in this pSrt,iculcrr
Further, the tann %onsur,ptioni~does not require
an ir~?edbctodestruction, In tile CEDO Of 6ThT3 V, TIOFS:fI
OIL snd l?XKr3\'X~
co., by th* Cosjniasionof J@peals of
TOXRS, 298 S. Y/.009, 072, the Court conotruod G stc:tute
imposir~ a tcr on gnoolina Sold “for conmmption Athin
tha Court acid:
t5is wxto”. , fn 3.+xop!i3ion’,
%it the km, ~conSu2~1~or ~constna?ti.on~,
600s not clwnys imply cn inxdinte deotruction
or teetin& up*; it Roy os well, end often does,
coA,s3~lnte the ultimate use to d~ioh c\llinter-
msdlnto Or!BSlecil."
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