OFFICE OFTHE **ATTORNEY** GENERALOFTEXAS
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**y Clerk,**  **where** aide ai **the** mope OS hir **00, 5wh**  **fee8 na**  **chm.lU be**  **to the**  hunty or do such taes Clerk Individually? ~&~i$fir mwmw 1s Chat nuoh fees belong

ty Clerk individuallg,thenwould t?xm be alttsrod

if such **work** ns Ur tailed above Isera

porfomd with labor pnl6 for by the %uuty, and iohera blllr were xenderd **t0** ths rMiipifiRt&3 **Or OUOh**  **&IWV~OW 011**  steteaentrams a!? mloh cowlty Ulerk?'
has been reosired by this clepnr%iwnt.

### Han, Wllllaa W. Allen,June 

### 14, 1939,Pago 8

The **Offioer*u** 8alar Law ot the **state** or Tepepas 

### is appllaable

to the **aounty** 

### 0fsrlt or LavaorCounty,

Tam& Beation8 of **Artlole** 

### 591& Revleed Civil Skfatesof Texsm 

### provldeathat It shalibe the duty of all offlosn to charm and oolleot in the manner authorized br lau all fees and ocmiseions whioh are permitted by Law to be aesemsed and oolleofed for all oril~laL?~~r

### vlosa pcrioxasd 

### by thorn.. As and when suchroar, am oollootedthey 

### shallbe dspoalted ln the OfTirnQ l3alarf ?und, or fund8 provided in the sot.

On Auuumt 8, 1934, this department

### held in an opinion by ZTon. Jullus I'. Fmmkl, Aosiatant Attorm~ Oenera& that the county clerk may **aharge** for servioesperformed by request, not part or the duties 

## 0r his 

## orri0e, provided that the samlces m randerail did not oanillot with hi0 

## 0rrf0iu dutlea.

Opinionno. O-59 or this dapartment holds that It is pexmisslble

### ,ror a oounty treasurerto aooept gempensation for servloes renderedbeyond the duties of hla office where the parfomanoe or suoh sorvioesoalled for 18 clearly not wlth:n tho aoopo of hla 

### ofriolal dutlrro or the officewhioh ho holds.

The drawinK up of 011 and @is mineral leaseE, lrritin&

deeds, oontractn or lep,&l doouments,is outside Or the 6OOpe Or the 

## dUti0B Ofth% OOUKIty

01~41% The Emklng of abstraotsor title Is outside 

## 0r the soopo 

## br the orrloinlduties of the county olerk. The preparingand oopyinrj

of field notss ray or may not be servioeswithin the soopo of the dutieo of the 

## 0rr’fiae 0r the aounty olerk; the inots in each aase ~111 doterminethis question.

The oounty olerk lma no authority to use oounty employoeopaid 

### by th& oounty to perform aeniaes outside oi the soope 

## or the duties of the offion 

## 0r oounty olerk, Labor raid for by the oounty tihould not be used by the olork in the perromanoe of aotivitiesoutulde of the saope 

## 0r the duties 

## 0r his offioe.

### ‘Hon. wlllb~ W. bllen, June 14, 1939, Pa@ S

you are thereforerespeotrullJ advlaed **that** 

### it I~I the opInl?n of this depart&matthat it Ls the duty oi 

### the oountyolerk to oham a!kl oolloot 

### Xn the uamar authorizedby law all fees and aomIssIons wbIoh are per mitted bylaw to be as~eased and ccllectedior all officIal aerviaosperromed by 

### him and that as and when 

### such iem8 ase oolleoted theJ &all be deposltebby the county clerk In the Offlqer’s Salary Fund of the oouut funds provided in 

### the salarynot, 

### You are furt or 

### advised tb or that it Is the oplnIod of this demrWent that& oounty olerk may oharge and aolleot far servicesperfoamedby rqm3t, *ioh lm not part 

## 0r the duties 0r his ofrim, provided that the services so rendered do not oonflict, with his oftlola duties and are not in violation of law. You are further respectfullyadvIoed Clot it I8 the opia

### Ion of this depnrtnentthrlt tha oounty **clerk** has no auttiorlty to use the labor paid for by tho county in tl)eperforcanoe of aatlvitiesof the clerk outsit-lo the soope of his orricialduties

2J ?rustln~ that this answers your inquiry,we are Vory truly yours