OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
Hon. Tom A. Crarpn
YoLennul CountJ Auditor
boo, Texas'
D6ar art
~plnfon 110.0-756
OS your letter
or hy 4, 1939 Opinion olarify-
r+ Your letter
b
their offloss for the oount It hem bean
the interprotstion of the D 1'8triot Attorney
M,';f"J"nnnnCounty that A.rtioleSIolCe,Seo-
, provided Sor the diBoontlnuano6 or
the paymant o? all muoh feeu lxoept those
Bon. Toi A. Craven, &Y 87, lSS9, Pam 8
luth o r lramder
ed law to be paid or allow-
ed thm offloa of A8nnor & Dollmotor of
Zus8.
-Already thl8 offloe ha8 beon ap-
proaohed on a plying tha rule 8ot out in
your aplnlon 80-259 to iear other thaa the
one8 owered in that oplnlon. Xhder thr
in 8y 8toIn nlffaot prior to Jsnuary 1, 1956,
mnnerons fee8 wore paid various oounty orfl-
ofal by the oounty for 8errloe8 rendered
the county by thome lounty Offlolal8. A8
lndloatad abwo, rinoe January 1, 1996, th18
lounty ha8 operated umder the theory that
;hg rwlrlon8 of Art. 6918e, &otlon S, ren-
ei the Art18108 or tha law autharlzlng
tha peyneat or 8UOh roe8 by the oounty to
muoh lounty offloes void, with the lxoeptlon
noted ln Artlolo 39188, Seotlon 5.
-our eplnlon olarlfylng th18 8ltuatlon
to u8 wlU be greatly lppreolated.w
Opinion lo. 0459 of thir departamnt parnd
won the tollowlng two proporltlons:
*In a oounty operating on a salary
ha18 Is the oountJalark antitled to fee8
00.lunaoy easea, ruoh fee to be remitted
to Offleer' Salary’?uad oi the aounty?
9~ oounty 0 eratlng on a 8mlary
basis 18 oounty oP ark entitled to fee8 f&W
noordlng oount ln8tru8ent8, 8ooh foe8 to
be remltted to 8ffloer'r 8alary Fund of the
oounty?"
Opinion lo. 0439 held that lunaoy prooeod-
lags wem of a oltll and not of 8 orfmlnal aetum; that
a lunaoy prooeedlng wa8 a olrll proeeedlng. The oplnlon
further hold that If the defendant In lunaoy ha8 no e8-
tab then the aounty olerk 8hould ah&rge the aounty a
c
Ron. To. A. Oroven, Roy 59, 1959, Pi&b 5
fee for nrvleeo under Artlolo bUB1, Petloed Civil Statutes
Of Tox.88,a8 the 88m fa a olrll oaoe, and that
he 8hould be pold b7 th elounty for 8uoh senloes out
of thq geae8al fund of the county, and that when ouoh
olerk reaolreo luoh payment out of the mneral fund It
lo the duty of the olerk to place ouoh payment he re-
eelreo from the general fund Into the OffIoer'8 Salary
Fund of the oounty. In snowor to the oeoond quootlon,
Opinion lo. O-559 hold )het the oounty olerk wa6 not
ontltled to charge the county noording fees for raoord-
lng rlcht-of-way deed6 for the county beoauee there war
no lathorlty whloh authorized the oounty olerk to oharge
the county fo r luoh lenloe8.
50 la0l08e herewith a copy Of oplnlon RO. O-807
of thlo de lrtment.rhloh wao rendered Hay 19, lOJO, whloh
we think w 11 as uppon~allof the queetfons raised ln
your latter. lp p"hi8 opinion 8ppolfloally pa8000 upon a
great number or Seen of oounty offlolalo. Thlo opinion
by8 down the fOl..lWingrule, whloh 1). think 01UiffeS
your l ltuatlon, to-wit:
cllou are re8peOtftiiy adrleed that It
18 the opinion of this department that all
oounty ond preolnot OffiOU8 who are oompen-
8ated on a Salary bar18 are required to eol-
leot all oo#to In olrll oaee6 by the ltate
nnd oll fees, oommloolono and oootr fBom
private parties who ark roqulred by law to
pay suoh 1800, o~o8iono and o0oto.
The oooto in 01~11 Oa8eS by the #tata
and all feeo, oo8rmioolons and ooota oolleot-
ed from private partleo rho are required by
law to pay ouoh fees, oomai8oiono and boot0 . '
when oolleoted by oounty or proolnot offIoar8
oompensated on a oalary basis must be deposit-
ed In the Offleer8* Salary rund et the oounty.
“The tax asooooer-eollootor shall oolleot
all fee8 required by low to be oollooted by
the tax aaseestir-oolleotorand he &all depooit
ouoh fee8 in the Offlcer8' Salary ?und O? hi8
.
wuntyr
We sorrntyor nelnot orfloor uho lo
oonpenoated on a 80 ! my bOOi8~8hdi eoll~ot
trm tha state or oounty any fea8, la o a lo o Io n8
or eooto for any or all et the duties per-
formed by him lxoept the oooto Or olrll oases
by the 8bt0.m
TnMt.ing that tht8 Mower8 ~0~2 inquiry, n
ore
Very truly yours
AlTOR88Y olz- OF T8xAs
BY (signed)
Wm. J. ?annlng
Aoelstant b
RJT 1AU
EBcLoBc8E APPROVED:
APPROYEor Opinion 0dttee
(signed) Oerald 0. Mann
mTORR8Y 08R8RAL OF TIIXAU By RUF, Chairman