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**OFFICE OF**  **THE ATTORNEY**  

### GENERAL **OF TEXAE**  **AUSTIN**



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### Yernon~8 **Aaaotatod** 

### al+11 Statutes. rhich 88t out tb pcwbrr an4 &at188 oi th8 Board.

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### Board of Eealth over 

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### %artlr babp wea **born** 

### la tto par 1920, acecrdl.ng to th8 faotr. At that tti Ruloa 34 tbra& 

### 5'1, ml018 **U71,** 

### Reriaeed Ci~ll Statutel, 1925, **(Act8 1911,**  **32nd Leg.,**  **eh. 93,**  **and** 

### Act8 **1917,** 35th **Lag., oh.**  **1291, tt0rb**  **18 ml**  r0r00 **8d 8ffa.** 



### Bul88 Z4 **to ST**  **wrs rupael8&**  **by** 

### Act8 **192?, 40th**  **ZlK.,** 

### 18t C. S., p. 116, oh, U, 8 24.

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### Civil Statuter 

### a8 umndod, (Act8 

### 1927, p. ll6 and Aotr 1939, R. B: 614f are no1 tke gortloa of tb Dan

### ltary oo& relating **to** 

### rltal rtatl8tio8.

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### of **the Sirth**  **8nd** 

### death of tin Vurtle babp, 

### 6x1108 34, 38 and 40 read ma folla8~

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### the birth of a child, or, la the 

### abrmoo of such 8tkndance, l 

### lthm parent of the obild, #hall xw>ort 

### the faot, togethw rith all 8tatia

### tlorl data relating t&rata, 

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### tron tlm 

### of tk8 birth, to the city 

### OT county rugirtrsr 

### a8 here&&afterprorldo4fQT.- "&la 35. Undortakmrs to ra;or$ dasth8.- **Evtw7** 

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### 8h8ll file with ttu przpur 

### reglatrcr a o8rtlfloat8 of U8oth and **all gmrssw**  

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### dwsm& u&ortakers.*Hon. 0~0. w. aox, Page 5

‘mllo 40. DiSpOSing cd b&y. - Thb body of 

### any person whoa8 

### Abath 

### odours within, or 

### whlah r18y 

### be found Aoad within, this St8ts shall not k intarred 

### or A8~08itd in 

### 8 **vault.** or **tomb.** 

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### la OO~Ip11aS08 

### wlth the teN Of **tEb** 

### old RdOS 34 and 35, l boro 

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### lib the repealed Rul0 40 - before 

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### 721, FSnrl **CefS Of**  TeXbS, **(AC%@ 1911,**  

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### aturtlo babp **maa** born, ale4 

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### birth or d8ath 8hau be ooa- **?fnsd ia**  **th, poniteatiary**  **not** 1888 

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### than **two** 

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### oonfor say jUriSdiOt& in the Boerd o? Eaalth over tba exhibition of l &WSBWWI~

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### Bulas 77 thraPghEd, Art1010 **U7T,** 

### Yoraoa*~ Anaotato6 Clrll StatutWS, relate **to the**  

### tr~argortatian o? dOOa;~d8, **and** harm 

### no applloatlo won 

### thbprornt

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### thorn 18 a0 

### po81tir8 l.ar in the OrkiUti Statutes o? TOSS rhleh wool4 Sorb14 much l 

### publio aisplq.



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### atok.

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### am **~rwlaea by**  **law, aa&**  **whomaror ahall**  **MU**

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### body to 

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### of all tha Oaso an& 

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### wish

to advisa that 

### it Ia 

### oaz opinion that the Stat0 Board oi Roalth does not poaaoaa tb 

### statutory autbo?ItJ to 

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### pub118 l 

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### and uUoh 

### lived threa 

### daya, 

### door not oontravono the ol+il or

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tatuto8 **0r** 

### Texas. **It** 

### I8 our further opinion 

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### 8 E 

### oiaun or kfantlla l 

### bomtlolr deslgnatod 

### tin fwma **lrd** 

### turtle

baby 1s w8 roqulrra **by** 

### law. tie are 

### of tbo oplnloa that a proseno onlquo 

### l *oIm8a of hama 

### nalfonimtlon. i,s tb llubjoot 

### of gropertr rights in this state. fimlly, It 18 our 

### o~lnlon that undu Article **4477,** 

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### 1LaO0te04 civil sktutoa, 

### tam 

### State ?ibr& ai Siealth, acting through 

### t&o stats and leoal nglatrar of Tltal Statistics, ha8 tb authorit 

### to **grant or**  

### nfuaa a pomsIt foe the proum

### tlon or numIfioatlaa at a **monatrolu** 

### birth.


### Em hen not 

### beoa Iniormo4 as 

### to tbrmnaor 

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### will ba oxhibitod 

### to the 

### publlo, but auoh 

### an oxhlbiticwr vi11 In all probability ba 

### sub

### jootto the ooou~atIoa **tax** 

### laws **0r** 

### this state. 

### Sam Artfolo?04V',

Sootlon8

td to SO, turaoa*s hrmotat4 

### abii Statutes.

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### tally aand oatIofaotoril~ 

### l nsworo&four quoatloiu, mo are 

### Talra vosy truly

**IB:ob** 

### APPROVED~ 19, 1940