OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEYGENERAL OFTEXAS 

AUSTIN 
6339 

Bon6rabl8 'i'. K. Trhble, Page 8 

“!I30 truatoe r*lQrrQa 

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to abore oan qualify 

as 8 taxpayer In ~HQ AIStrlOt.w 

Aa indicated from thr statute qwted in your raquest, no pbraon shall be truater unl~aa, amolrg other things 

required In the statute, that parson is *a qualirlsd voter 

In said diatrlot.” Troa the foot@ glron in ?our request, 

It IS obtloua that the oandldate ior tM oifiee of truater 

of a aOmnon sahool dlatrlot doea not hold a poll tu nodpt 

for the Jeer 1940 pal6 oa or before Pobruary 1, 1941. 

Artlalo 8955, of V~nkori*a Qvil Statutes, glroa 

thQ qualifioationa for totlag as rollowa: 

+%rery pQraon subjeat to none or the foregoing diaqualifioatiom rho shall have attaiaaU 

the a@ of twtity-one and who shall be a oitlam 

or tb United Statoa, and who slmll bra roalU#a 

in this State one year next preoodi 

Irr 

all s106tlon, 

and the last six months within tha d atriot or 

aounty in whioh he or ahe offers to tote, shall 

be doaaQQ a qualiflsd QlQeto*. The Qlootora 

living la en unorganired aounty ui? rote at ea 

eleotion preoinot in the oountf to rhlob auah 

ocmty is attaohad for jrdiaial purpona; provided that any voter who la aubjaot to pay a 

poll tax under the 3aw8 o? this Ptats or ordlnan008 of any oity or town in thi8 &at@, ahall 

have paid oaid tar kBwo offering to vote at 

any Ql,lsotlon isthlr State aad hOl48 a moelpt 

showing, that said ~0x1 tu war paid before the 

rlrat day of lrebmcry nQst prsoe4lng such elaotion$ and, If said voter la l rampt imm paYIS& 

a poll tax and mafAoe in a city of ten thousand inhabitants or mora, hQ or aho must prOoum a aQrtlflaSte ahowiag his or bar exe!aptions, 

aa mqulmd by thir title. . . .* 

Arttale 8989, KQrired Civil Statutes of lbxas, 

19i38, provihesr 

"A poll tar ahaIl bs 0OlleotQU r3m every 

person bQtWeQn the ages of twontpOJiQ aad 8ixty 

year4 who raSldQ4 in thir StatQ On the first 

day of January pmeeding it8 levy, Xndia~8 &Ot 
640 

Honorable T. I(. Trfmble, Pw 2 

taxed, pereona Inaano, blind, aear and dumb, 

and~those who have loat a hand or foot, or perrenently dirablod, l xoeptmd. It ahellbe paid 

at any time between the firat Bay of Oo%ober 

and ttie riret day or February rollowing; aad 

the pereon I&UI he pays it, 8heU be entitled 

to his pal tax.raoolpt, aven if hia other taxes 

am unpaid. * 

In bur Oplnloa No. O-1220, this departmant held 

that in order ror a prron to be exempt ?ron tho payment oi 

a poll tax, levled as of January 1, MS@, payable betma 

Ootobar 1 1959, and February 1, 1940, and ior the p~mon 

to ti entltlad to rote during the year 1940, he must ham 

been rixty yeara of age, or over, beior8 January 1, 1989, 

and, therefore, a person who hors 60 vura of age in 

Ootober, 1989, murt have duly pdd a poll tax in order to 

be ei<led to rote in a July, 1940, primary eleotion. Wo 

are enoloalng a bopy oi that opiaion for your oonaidsratlon. 

Under the prorlsloxu oi the above quotad atatutaa 

and the opinion rsferrbd to, we am or thr opinion t&St the 

person lnqulrad about ir not entitled to aa oxoaptlon f'mm 

tbapaymlBJlt& polltur 

You are, thrnforo napootfuIlj adviard that, \mdor 

the faota au?mAttod by you In your rsquart, a omdldato for 

the oiiioe of truatoe or a oomon rohool Ulatrlot la net 

qualiilad to mrvo se a truatoa of l u6h demon aehool dlatr5.ot 

for the rsaaton that he is not a qud.irlad Voter la aai0 &atrlot as requfnd by the grovia5mu of nrtlalo 2l45, BeTiaed 

Civil 8tatuton of lkxaa, 1925. 

Tour* very truly 

Aeaiatant