**OFFICE OF**  **THE ATTORNEY**  **GENERAL OF**  **TEXAS AUSTIN** 

ZOnerable 8. D. Looney BfnmtyAuditor Bowl. Qotlntp ~prtxm, Texas Dear Sir;

That pooflon of yo

a deiiaienay basis. ge Salary for 1940wa6 &!ii340.I.rt &SO.00 and ag extra Steno ic+z d 

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‘Rimedupon the above faots, you wish to be adtlaed whether 01 not you would be in the x?i_ght to approve suoh stefm **tar** *he extra raise seked **toiz** in the-order.

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Bvnorsble J. D

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:i.ahwa d0terxincu POUiQs'cunty's pv~uL2itioneccordinf to the 1240Fmle.ml Cer,suvtc bo E5,244 lnbabltante. .otion 13 (a), srtlvle 391Ze, Vemon’li ~:imotatrad Civil .5t;ituta::s, vgpllv-ble to ovuutiva with g0pti.fth.3 0r 20,550 iah~b:ta~t~ of sorv, and leea than 190 000 b the domBEiau?vner8* UPt Inhsbltnnts, vest8 vuthorlty 00 

### tv sutborleethe szploymentof a **8tenog.rapber tar**  **the oounty**  **jade** vnd pny for mot: sexWoe out ef tha ~ccaral find o? tte oounty to an mount nvt to ex

### 0-d Twelvehn2red (~12OC.00) Dollarsper year. In oumrcrrln~

your queution, it 

### ia neeaamry to eon**rMer oettain**  **postlcirku bi**  **the** bud& **1st ndopteff**  **by ths**  **42nd** 

### tr@lalaturr,

**Aote of**  

### 1931, Incorporated **in** Vernon*r **&uxaatad 01~11**  **Citstctes ~8**  

### Articrle 6fWa-l-30. nrtiole#9e-11 of aaid Stat~*%xa,Ja 

### part proridcs; When thr bud@ be8 been Slnally ctpprove8by the **oomGs810ner8t** aourf, the badgot aa zqpwe& by 

### the court shallbe filedwith the olerk of t&e county vourt,and **tars8** lsviad vnly **in** avoordv~ne~ therewfth, snd no exg8.ndltqre

## ie the fum3.q 0r the wwnty **rhall** therssf%r k 

## 788ae,6m0pt In 8tPlot oorapllanve with r~the **budget 88**  **rrdopted by**  

### the Oourt. Exoept **that** 

### mmrpc+nvyaxpandltnras,is OBM of @me pablio nooweity, to met 

### unwuel end uaizressenvonditions whloh ovuld not, by resr8onably

### dflifpntthoughtend ette::tion, 

### h:ve been lnoludedin tha orl&se$ bud@., say rro%J

t1ze to t&a0bs RuthQrked **aI)** 5?aend!!ents to tCa ori&wil budget. In 111 oeavs rhcire wah a33ndwntu to the oripizwl bucket Is pnado,IPoopy of the order 

## or the vuurti u8isndl~ the budgst she11 be riltrd

### wit& the alerkvr **the oounty**  **vomt,** and **a** 

### t.:ahed to the bc&&etor~lnally Ea;doptad.w 

### The onlyway the oountybudpt *map be camendrd

**etter it8**  adoption is In **atrlvt** oomplfrjnoewith the **above** utstuto ;pro*fslon. ThZs doprtmmt ha6 vonsistsntly 

### ruled that whet

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la on6 whivb 0811

be vla86~ified

88 can eBmr$enQyUnder **the** 

### bud@ Isr 

## nos?8 tv 

## peszit the **tmimiaaiontsrli ’**  **VvUl ’** **t to**  **acaend** the bud@, ia H qoastfoo of icOt pri~wlly tv 

### be passedupon by the ovsz3i~slon~rs~ court. f&e 

### Opinion 0007, O-lOE3 end O-l/E& 

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### Reporti

CT thv AttorneyC4tnemlfor 1939, psgaos 

### 8, 274 and ax, rermpmtive1y.Honorable J. D. Looney, page 3 (I

The quoted statutory provision provldea that no expenditure of the funds of the oounty shall be made after the budget is finally approved and filed with the clerk except in strict eomp~lancewith the adopted budget. Anexoeptlon to the foregoing la made, however, as to vemergency expendltures.W

In your letter of request, no amendment of the budget Is shown to have been made to meet any supposed emergency nedessary to take oare of the proposed lnoreaaed expenditure a8 shown by the order raising the stenographer's salary. Until such amendment is made, no quesftlon

of "emergency expendltures,a as defined in the statute and neaessary to exist in order to support an amendment, la raised.

It is therefore the opinion of thla department that a oounty auditor ha8 no 

### authorityto approve a claim for an expenditure of county funds outside of and beyond that fixed in the adopted budget exoept those under *emergency expendlturesv authorlxed as amendments to the original budget in compliance with Article 689a-11, Pernon's Annotated Civil Statutes. Yours very truly ATTORNEY

C-AI., OFTEXAS

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