# I OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS

**JfoaOl ’** **6b16 8.**  **L.** Warhburn CountJ AudItor gsrrla county goutlto3l, Texas
Dear slrt

**1*****‘ 4** **ha00 I** **’ 0C~iV.d**  **JOUl- 36**  **th6** matter uaptlotmd **above. ml**  held thattibte oreatedbya vbluh owate a defiolenq in vldAt1cm of lav 8nd orart a **Oth6l ’**  **VOzd6, th6**  **kX ’** **U** t0 6E66t6 CL**debt** are not au&tied **Of tbQ**  **di6tZ ’** **iUt Of**  **P**

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**“ 2.**  Hay satd Dtotriat pay frora ourmat t.ax61,old obli,~sttona Incurred in prior scdmlastfc or calea&w ye4rtt for vh%ckc, at the tfm4 they vem faaurred, DO eptOifiC **pPWL61Cstl b&d**  **bWXl nude**  **for w-t**  OXQ6pt **f%lTi** thaIl OuPrent **f%X48? @tI** **’ XWllt**  **t&X46 fOl** **’ thO64**  **pal-6** prOP6d inauff”ioisak for ourrent opas%ttayg **6iqxm646, aad** e6 to an wovat gwat;sr than the vuhool fwi$ e&OF

### t1Qnodto that distr;rict for twt mhola8tio ye8r. %%i6 lialtatiaau9wl t%8 

### mvarob th4tl%*t64a satltex~tbe 

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**vft.h**the tiher5 n6uoawlly Isalt at0 prsPIOX&of the Ocbt~ thltt ~&$-it be 

### oontraated to tbs amount ur th% fund vhfch b8lcm.ged to tha ti8trl6t for #6t y6aP, sal any &ebt cantreoted -tier then that vunld k e visl,.stlm of the l&V, had Gonst1tut0 rl0 olsla -lx&St tha di6tPfGt. The mix appxwprlated ballg Itxwnnt,azld me tm&ert Of 8Ghm.b **d4&onarlwd,** the 1eilgCh al the 

### tezr t4 bs tsmght lrtsa4 SLX vltb WPteinq the p-104 tQ be paLd to tis6i**t6whQr*** snd E&oQld med bQ lPi814d &out it. %%4tmlst64e vm-6 mukk0rl.a~ ka aapoad ?a% 6uElOst apart t8 the d.f8t~~6t, but imt stcpwsx6d to aontrikst 8 debt m~g4nst the OSJ&I ab f?%tztreposse
.= 8uppl~b.t ) (X@ma~sYhi8 Mae van bstolr the 3upTaw cawpt on esTttr%su



### qtwrtfsas. In view af ths above quoted tioldbg tiw **Court** of ~2~23 Appeals held ths r0m kr disp~mimg of tb~ M:

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### In the cam ai Culberson v. BWc (T8x. Cfv. A *.) 50 3. W. 195, tt uas held by tha eaurt of QlYl app4414 Of the Plitr4 HapTemejudiolal d?.sBf trict that the school fund& of an fsar aould be tusd la tbs pqausntol the ladebtedna8s af 

### a pns#d- 

# %iat?i&tes, at d altbaughltls provldect Snmtial~ 3959

letriots 

### tsaahe~~ aball not 

### em&e a 

### Us?lafsnc!ydebt the district.’ In t&s ea8s of Em& v. Hamb Cir. App.) 51 9. W. 266, It 

## vaeheld W ths afnart of alvll appsala 0S tha Saaand suprme ju&ieLsl dirtriot

170, to osrtlfy tko qkleIstlon ta the SupPans wt. Sanaasue~ to that queattcn 5.eudu,held that tim ssbcml fumd of tee par aal& not be uukd ta pay aft th0 dabt Of 4&Ou.W pi. !54S. W. 102% St mh3WB mat tb4 pst1tion otat*~a so bauF6 al aotlen, u&u tbs

(Eaphaai~ rrrrppliad] Thtul, It is npprimt that the ‘Joholaatie ysar IS the em suntrapbted br Artlals 2749 with rshwwk0e to te8aWrs1 **ueatTacts.**
fn the r6?wmt tm44 of Tsuplwan Ccmso~ sahcaa Blat so. **1 of**  **Bmsos County**  **Y. 30yd**  **B9. Tiead**  **CO., 8tJl?M,**  

### &fntiff **6-d tb**  **8ehcwl** 

### dlatclotto **Tlxxw4r cm**  **trs varmurtr**  **imnaed in**  **papsa of** 

-1 

### wnrmnto, and worn 

### dated Fsbz’wwy 22, 1.933, February 22, lC@+, and A&l I, 1934. Them ua4 a0 shmdag that t.b d.i8triOt had Elny&tQ4i,hblQ f’tE& @Xlh8Ud fCW tb4 fSlW f@l= uhleh the purchw4 Y'CLS aads, and the colsrt, rpbaiclng t.hmugh titiee Al~ii&dW, fn hoSa t&t ~'GaoVery atid aat bo,bd QA tbo VaTpate had the follalrwg to say:

' *I+ * 3%**oth4r** wcwU4~ all of the fund4 aearuliag to i&e &atriat ror tno 

### cuTrent wae61 y*aT bad gmvioualy be- ag3pPuprmxta far 0th.~ purpo6er at 2124tit834the dsbt in q~astiaa was SJmmTsu. + * *

### g&lo Ii. L,.wamhburm, P-0 5

‘slate the 

### tmhool dfmtriot did 

### not, a: the 

### tinatlw cantrant vm anteFed into, nm during that scrhohsttc pass, have avatlable or aacrnrlng 

# toff ?bds amwqsary to mot the abltgatlan, the trustvear lrexw vlthalt wtboritr t30inour tha uobt." haspha41s supplied)

see also t&s uase Qf F"LFst mu. Ban!&of J&mhisoa ~SaUepttadoat School D&at., 2x4 S. W. (2%) w court safd the foolloving:

ln rler Qf the60 autho~ittis it is OUF o pl&lan 

### that tl# **trruteo6** of A 4 cheul ufotrict em vitihmt auth6rity 

## ta lneur 

### adebt in a cmt&n ye&r grwU.w !&an the 

## avatlable ftan&oahand 01uhtahare**nsoeorurb4** antiuipatetl for th4t year. 

# Stimalso

mu- oplnloa that the 

### aeholimtiayew, and not th4 aaleadm y8e, gevorzbs the opertrttan of 8daoGl distc2crts uith retpeat tclzac ima’- ob~li~aticms.

we are not unm- sf th4 ikat that the ttolla66~on of 

### Am in the cnae of Uarr~z; et al Y. 

### t3aa$er Sadepsadmt 36heel Dirt. et al., '2&l;fi. 'L'. 159, used hr.qu6g4 whleh ecnald possibly k uqpd tci support the oorit4xM’xI that the 66lmdsr p6r is the pawpar ,Jrerarlib&n it ram

# I Ho@sable H. L. Washbum, page 6

In apeaifically anawerlng the three questions which you have propounded, v8 OllIEinstetheWOrdS "C414ndW year' fr~41 6uahquestions because of our holding that the 

### scholastic **year** 

### is thQ proper one. In vlev of the foregoing authorltles and discussion, we ansver your first question in the negative. We -,m~r yanr second and third questions as Pollovst Debt8 may not be contracted greater than the amount of available funda on w or thatmay be reasonably antlakpated for that who01 year. A debt created In excess of such edsountla void and constitutes a~ 01alm against the district. Obllgatlons expressly payable out of funds nooNing t0 the distriQt in a SUbSeqtWIh scholastic rmr may not **validly** be created 

### by the trustees of a school dlstrict; such obligations are **void** 

### and create no liability vhatsoever en the part of the dlstrlat. If in 

### a prevloua year a debt qssvalidly c-ted In reasonable anticlpatlon of revenues to be collected for that year, but the fund 80tually realized vas lnrufflcient to dis&a~e the SLIIM), such debt may be paid from the delinquent taxe8 of such prevl0u6 rear or years prior thereto. Suah a debt cannot be paid frcsuthe revenues of a Subaequ*nt **y-oar,** 

### rt least unless there is an a&IIal surp1ue in tho fund after the direbarge of al1 the obligations of auoh subsequent **year3** 

### however, 

### as there ia no swh surplus in the fund of the school dlatrlct lnv41ved, It Is not neaessery for 06 to pass up011this point, and v4 express no 

### op.tiion thereon.

l&/--I* VepY tNlyyeIW6
AT!l'ORXBY

O%ll%I?AI,

OF TEXAS A?-~., .-, ,,y 7:" ~: