OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS 

AUSTIN 

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1 OJzgfto 000 ~ mJa ol h o el 

oh001 Superintendent orPenton 

Eio. 4B9 ~essat% by t&e %rtyrsoeiPe4 a raise la salary. Laast Federal CeKleurr our pcpulatfon 

e,HIO, therefore, I CM of the opiaion . 

y ghtx;; not be dry&iythe money allewe blmundez 

. . . . 

"After reading the aese at Boustoa %timxsl 

.sxohailga hulk rt al v. khool idstrict kc. lg8 

i&rrla county, 198 s. ii. 869 (Cfv. App. 1910) 1 aoll 

wondering it it le pay dirty to paw on tba matter. 
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eon. Guy Turner, page 8 

"Eleaee advise ii ? have any 

superpision OS rundr belolying to 

Uistrlata.* 

autborSty or 

Common sohool 

i%%@te Bill %O. 4Q9 (hctl lf#sT, 45th Lagi8$&ul'a, p. la%, 

Ch. 4771, reS@rred to in your latter, tins carrid Sornar8 in 

~ernon*a hnotate4 Civil Ltatutes es Article WOO&1V. ikgtion 1 OS thle Artlole provides in part OIJ Sollourr 

"~0ctiOn 1. In all oountiea OS ths stat* OS 

Texas having 8 population OS not lerr than 8hir8y- 

,two thoueand eight hundrad (55,800) au4 not more thn 

thirty-two th:~uIend eight hundred thirty (8lt,B50), 

. the salary of the County hiuperintondmlr of 

k&lo Inatruotion @hall be not le.8 than ‘ho Thoruud 

hwen Hun8rod glfty ($8,780.00) Dollar8 cad not mi3ra 

than Three Thousand ~~050.00).Dollirr per mm,, the 

amount OS *Ioh ralary ehall bo Slxod by tha order 6f 

the,County Board OS tiuoatlon Sor the rerpsotlve 

oounties, and the Uounty Board OS Wuoatiaa~for oeah 

OS the oouutiocr eomin$ within thin Ml1 still, by 

order entared in ltr mlnutoo, met tlu oalary tar eao& 

OS their rempeatiro uuuntie8." 

The oSfiola1 1940 Cermur report dlaolo~er that Danten 

County now hea a population OS 83,488, be-, a8 rtato& in pw 

letter, in exoe~~ OS the Se,550 maxImam vdthln tb lumimbow 

mntiomd aot. 

You are, thoratom, nspaotiully a&leWd that it 18 th8 

opinion OS thin Department, uador the faota &at&l, that ~a# 

are oorrect In your oonaluelon that the salary at the eount~ 

8OhOol superintmatent OS Dimton County 16 no longar to h d&ormined Srom the prwleiloni~ OS Artidle t900d-17 for the reason 

that said kticLI) no long.sr appllrs.to Denton Couut~. 

IQ the cam'oi Eokon' National Exohanga Bank f . s&m01 

DlstrioC H&L,ze5, &rrir County, 1.85 S. i';, 589, the &d.Te88on 

Court of Civil Appeals in 1516 held, thet the oounty euaitor 

wae not authodeed or requlreb to approve vouohers drawn on 

?unda of the aoamon aohool tistrlot of the county. It was 

observed in this aame that school Sunde em not fun&e "Sor the 

use or, or belonging to, the aounty," over whiab Artfole 1051, 

8. c. s. or 1985, premoribes the oounty auditor's duties, but 
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tbrt tbe eoze 6re state fund& r;biaD 8ro hsld by the county 

merely ac truotoo Sor the publio Srso sohoolo, and that ouob 

oobool funde are mbjeot to the ouporvlolon OS tbo sohool 

ofslcors, ouch aa tmoteoo, euporintsndento, oto. - 

Under Article &327s, Vernoa’o ~~0tiit8a ClrFl Gtatuteo, 

the salary of an aleotire county rohool euporintondont lo 

pritl out of the 8ttato nvail.able School 3~6, 

POU ore, therefore, roopeatiully advised t&at It is the 

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inion of Wil8 Dopartmont , under the Slats stated, thot 8lnoo 

t o oolory of the oounty oohool ouporintondent OS Donton Coti 

i8 pclid Out 0s OOhOOl fund0 #bud BOt OUb Of fuRdi3 "for th0 U80 

or, or belonging to, the county, * the emttu OS ma8ing on the 

omwnt of salary to which the euporintondent ie entitled 18 

lM&rt OS the dUti88 required of the county auditor or sala 

. 

#e are onoloOing herewith oopio8 OS our opini~on8 so8. 

04038, 04TS4 and Q-P954a. hero0otoro rendered by the 

prorent Wi?AnimtratlOn OS this Ds~putaient, whhioh, we bolloro, 

will Sully fmowor yoiir last quest&on. 

Very truly yours 

IiPIIp 

APPROVE DJm 23, 1941