OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEYGENERAL OFTEXAS AUSTIN

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**“ !I30**  **truatoe** **r*lQrrQa**

**~. -.._**  to abore oan qualify as 8 taxpayerIn ~HQ AIStrlOt.w
**Aa** indicated**from thr**  **statute qwted**  **in your**  **ra** quest, no pbraon shall be truater unl~aa, amolrg other things required In the statute,that parson is *a qualirlsd

### voter In saiddiatrlot.” Troa the foot@ glron in ?our request, It IS obtlouathat the **oandldate** ior tM oifiee of truater of a aOmnon sahooldlatrlot**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: +%rerypQraon subjeat to none or the fore**going diaqualifioatiom**  rho shall have attaiaaU **the** a@ **of** twtity-one and **who shall**  **be** a oitlam or tb **United Statoa,**  **and who**  

### slmllbra **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 qualiflsdQlQeto*. The Qlootora living la en unorganiredaounty ui? rote at ea eleotionpreoinot in the oountf to rhlob auah ocmty is attaohad for jrdiaialpurpona; pro**vided** that any voter who la aubjaot to pay a poll tax **under** the 3aw8 o? this Ptats or **ordln** an008 of any oity or town in thi8 &at@, ahall have paid oaidtar kBwo offering to vote at any Ql,lsotlon

is thlr State aad hOl48 a moelpt showing,

that said ~0x1 tu war paid before the rlrat day **of lrebmcry**  **nQst** prsoe4lngsuch elaotion$ and, If said voter la l rampt imm paYIS& a poll tax **and** mafAoe **in** a **city of**  **ten thou**  sand inhabitantsor mora, hQ or aho **must prO**  oum a aQrtlflaSte ahowiaghis or bar **exe!aptions,** aa mqulmd by thir title.

. . .* Arttale 8989, KQriredCivil Statutesof lbxas, 19i38, provihesr
"A poll tar ahaIl bs 0OlleotQUr3m every **person bQtWeQn**  **the** ages **of** twontpOJiQ aad **8ixty year4**  who raSldQ4 in thir StatQ On the first day of Januarypmeeding it8 levy, Xndia~8&Ot

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taxed,pereona Inaano, blind,aear and **dumb,** and~thosewho 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 Februaryrollowing;aad the pereon I&UI he pays it, 8heU be entitled to his pal **tax.raoolpt,** aven if hia other taxes am unpaid.

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In **bur** OplnloaNo. O-1220, this departmantheld **that in**  **order** 

### ror **a prron**  **to be**  **exempt ?ron**  tho payment oi a poll tax, levled as of January 1, MS@, payablebetma Ootobar1 1959, **and** February

### 1, 1940,and 

### ior the p~mon to ti entltladto rote **during the**  **year** 1940, he must ham been rixty yeara of age, or over, beior8January 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 prorlsloxuoi the **above** quotad atatutaa and the opinionrsferrbdto, we **am** or thr opinion t&St the person lnqulradabout ir not entitledto aa oxoaptlonf'mm **tbapaymlBJlt&** polltur

You are, thrnforo napootfuIlj adviard that, \mdor the faota au?mAttodby you In your rsquart,a omdldato for the oiiioe of truatoeor a oomon rohool Ulatrlot la net qualiiladto mrvo se a truatoa of lu6h demon aehooldlatr5.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 8tatutonof lkxaa, 1925. Tour* **very** truly

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