OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
Thlr departaent I8 i w letter or ?eb:uarT
24, 1939, rque8tiag an opinio on of whether the
lelaetion ot a bank an oount 08@ prerldent ir 8
camber ot the County YeD
) 19%. 8pp.?arlng in
Volwam 1133at p8ge uwuarlng 8 r*l*tod
(Iarc
llblOhwao 60.
oh, two of WhlOb ooa-
J .BObO&StiO8, Wa8 IlOt d18-
County Borrd Oi YOhooL 'h&888
outlon uadsr krtiols 373, Pam1
Lncluciw, a8 amenbed by E. 8.
r 3¶88iOlb, 45th L8g., p. leP&1318, pro-
88iOll4t8’ Court Or 08Oh OOWIt~ #hall
Artleh t963 proVia Ch8t in th0 08S* Oi’i8aOXpOr~t8d
‘%rht8 baring 188s ttaa one huadrd
fifty 8rhOl88tia8, l811 frill68
lt 8uoh alrtrictr 8hall br kept in th. eOtUdyd8~Si9Ort.r and pciid
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** on order of tna LrU8te48 spprorbd by the Oarnty 8~p4riZltOZMhat.'
&a. Park8 ::.~oXlohar1, iiaroh 9, 1939, Page t
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Under ttl4prOYi8iOll8of &t+lcle l%i?8,Rev1404 %4tUto8
1926, and Artioh
2829, 88 8E4lldOd kOt8 iQS1, uZbd Lee., p. 43,
Ch. 34, the oounty dspo4ltorr 14 ma0 the d8pO41tO~ ror tbo fUlld8
Of oommon 8ObOOl d14triotr.
Under tho prOvlliOn8 of tit1010 2838, triad btatUtO8,
1926, the fund8 of lnde~endont rohool dirtrlotr, barlq man than
On0 hUndrOd 8nd fiftY 8OhOh8tiO8 , are kept in depo8ltorier releoted
~4 8pprored by the bo8rd of tAl8t888 of 4uoh independent rohool
dlcltriot.
A8 ehown by
fomgoin(l t&o
8t8tute8, the rohool had4 kept
by the county deporltory
are there belonging to 00-n rohool di8triotr
and indsQond@nt 4Oh001 dl8trlOt8 h8tfng 1488 then On0 hundred end
rift+ roholartlor. The County Board of Cohool Tru8tsor 18 not
Ofilclall~ oonoexned wlth the management &nd dirburrrment of 8uoh
sohool fund8 and he8 nothing whatever to bo with makind the Oon-
tmot rlth ths depository bank.
Thl8 department 18 of the oplnlon that the County Com-
mi48ionor8* Court nay &ogally de8ignate a4 the oounty deporitory,
4 bank who80 prsrldeat 18 a member of the County bard of Zchool
%wtaaa.
YOW8 vary truly
ATTORNXY CFSERAL OP TEXAS