OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS 

AUSTIN 

GROVERSELLERs 

ATTORNEY GENERAL 

%morab& saa 13. f$aU 

County Attorney 

xerrleon county 

zlorshall, Toxaa 

3unr sir: 

I70 8re In reael OS r+wmt date wmri3Jin you raqwat. ou atftutioPsllity and 

oiuaitp of muf~5 La** 19gt4 (Art. 

97&d, v. A. E. c. ws;on OS the oariou8 

propo5ttLona la tit0 cQneit~tutli?~llty OS 

said kot bar BL our oQLtsiaexatlon OS 

thi6 BDltttw* 

ty ror w privete lx80 

or labor or eorW3os ., 

hgr any orfioer or acp.couxt or t&a CmELsalonsnurr* Court of any county 83al.l 

knowln&y um or pemalt to be used tha 

labor OX rrerolwm of any I)ernon whom 

labor or sorrloe Is pld for by. 6wh 

cauaty SW priest0 u6e or pr0ri.t shall 

be (gaL1t.g of 8 tribddaseanor; 0x33 daoler- 

'Lag 6n oa0rtpnor. 

490 
840 a. 8411, page 4 

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As to whether the portion of the Aot whloh is In sonfom- 

+ity with the title oan stand is dependent upon the ob eot of the 

kl4w, the int4ntlOn Of th4 Leeialaturr, snd the manner -k?-whiah 

kthe unconstitutional portion4 affeot the reminder of the Act 

b(8ec 9 Ter. Jurl, Sea, 56 p. 473; State 1. Laredo Ioe co., 

,# Tsx. 461, 73 S.‘w. 9511. 3h’here portion8 of an eat are 

iunoonrtltutional and where 411 or the provisions Of the act are 

~~,4onneoted in subjeot matter and operating togetbr for the saae 

;,purpose, or otharwise eo conneoted in eubjeot mstter in 8uch a 

$manner that it o4Mot be prcmuned that the Legislature would 

&vo passed the one without the other, the whole act is void. 

<:;(8penoe V. Penohlet, 107 Ter. 443; Lewlu’ Sutherland Gtatutory 

:~‘OonstruOtlOn Seoond 68. Vol. 1, p. 6001 9 Tex. Jam., Sec. 56, 

‘:,pp. 473-4, end oa4ee cited thereunder. 

;z. ,In the instant eituation, when the Aot is riewad an 4 

twhole, it is a4airQst that the purpose or the Aot wa8 to pro- 

[;i$de a penalty ior the private u4e of public property and other 

~;$hings of value belonging to or paid for by the m&s, 4 county 

t or niuniofpalfty . The body OS the Aot contain4 proviefonr whioh 

b irr applioabls to t&l of the gen4ral olarsifioatione of publio 

;offioers in thie State (State, oountg and mniolpal). Moreover, 

&411 of the above mntloned pubLio orfioora, whioh -are nubJest to 

$the proririonrr or the Constitution and hwe of this Stdte, 4x-e 

“by thir Aot, eubjeot to the seine penrlty for’urlng pub110 

$:proparty for private prorit. Also we oall partloular attention 

;ItO the following lan&i4ge oontainejl in Seotlon 5 of said Aotr 

*The f4ot that there is no law providtig a 

gWJSitg 6gOiSUSt the U00 Of 

~7 fully 68 defliied in this b 8: emrgsnoy, . .* 

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f;,The preoeding aeotione of. the Aot oontain provld.ocs wlth refer- 

? enoe to the property or the State , oountlas and munloipallties, 

$ ‘?{a note r’urther that H. B. Xo. 80 contain6 no eeverabllity 

[z::Or savinga olauw, and we are unable to find any ind.ioetiOn that 

:~.the Lr3gislature would have enaot4d mme with the unoonetitution4l 

b: ~~ovieiona slimlnated. u view or the nature and gcmeral. purpoas 

R. B, NO. 80, it lo our opinion that the Legislature intendml 

L!that the provisions thereof would be applioable as a whole end dl 

:#4Ot intend that they would be applioable Only t0 OoUnties, when 

the portions of the Aot with rererenoe to the State snd mQisiPa1 

,tlss are unoonstltutlonal. 
and G&782. &is insofar-aa the holdinaa 

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