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OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN
Honorable Jallan uontgoniery
state Rlghway pgin0.r
ALwtln,rexa
OIar sir:
Rio arandeValley
tlng exahangr inooor-
poreted under Texas and that it6
members are a wers, whloh assoola-
tions arm co engaged in oitrur
hr Exohan@ own8
pro4uots or a.0 mom-
nts ror procsaslxlg.
nsweied 10 whether or aot,
the Eio annde"Valle~ Citrur
0 iI5 truokr 0laOrlilOd ana reg-
r raid Artiole 667Sa44i.
rtiole reads as rol-
or thr Act borrby 8aonded . . . .*
Honorable Jallan L'oatgoE;ary,
Pag5 R
While there hare beea ao doola101~ oolutrulne
this rrtlole a rlose roadin thereof dlsoloses that thj
lakatioa or thr 4gIslaturs was to grant a reduotloa la
m~lrtrarloa isa8 to owners of oommrrolal rrhlolas whioh
were wed to traarport the ornon own farm prodootr. The
hots Hated roveal that the Ecohango ouns the truoks la
qaertfon~ but do not own the produots sought to be oontop
ld aad thsnfore oaaaot oome wIthIn ths purview or Arti-
010 667&I-da, Khlle it 18 true the gxohango la mood in
a literal sons8 b7 tb f8nmn thsmssives the same door
not take thm bohange out of the rule that a rorporatloa
Is la it60ir a legal lnt1t.f. Thsrrfon; the truoks san-
not be oon6trwd as bolng owned by the ramsrs thsmrslvss.
Tou are, thonfoh adrirea that uador the raotr
stated in rour requart the Rio Orando Valley Citrus Ex-
ohange is not latltlod to a alassifIoatIoa ana roauotlon
of lioonso isss as oontunplatad by Article 667Sa4a or thr
Rorlsed Civil Statutes of Toxa‘.
Trustlag that thr aboro fully la5wer8 Tour la-
w-7, - lr *
fo ur sver y tr uly
A- QW’ISRAL
OI TEXAS
&ii%?& AAstaat
APPROVEI’:Sn 15, 1939
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