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<div class="ocr">To ATTORNEY GENERAL
Or TrexAs

Grover Sellers AvsTrixn, Texas

MEPEOAMEY (eS eLAL *

Hon. T. K. Wilkinson
Goanty Auditer, Hi11 Cs.,
Hillebore, Sexas

Dear Sirs | Gpinion No, 0-616

| Re: Cen the seleriess ef the
County Commisaionere of
11 County be lagaliy
paid wheliy cut of the
genera] fund?

Your letter of Kevember 2, 1944, requesting the
opinion of thie department on the question abated thereia
fe a2 follows: ;

"San the eslaries of the domulssioners ae
FILL aunty be paid whally out ef the General

The offices of Stete Comptroller of Puti.ie Accounts
interne us that the 19h4 tax roll for S11) County is not now
in ain offied, However; the seaords of bis cities: reflect

het the total accessed valuations of 911 properties carti-~

‘Sed by. the Gounty asses Asseanor anf Collector and approved by
the Commissioners’ Gourt fer ecunty purposes Sor the year
1943 was $20,357 450.00. His records further reflect that
the fer the year 1943, the constitutions] Lintt ef 254 on the
$106.00 yeluation was not levied fer genorel purposes, bit
2i~3/k¢ on tha $166.00 valcation was devied for general pare
poses for that year, (2943).

' Aptiele 2356, Vernon's Annotated Civil fututes,
provides ia part:

Me uaelht eounties Axvir the following euseseed!
valuations, respeetiv Lb” shown by the total
assessed yeluations of 2d prepertias, certified

the county sesesser and approved by the Com
seloners* » for county purposes, for the
previous yee year, from tine to time, the Sounty
Gomilasioners of sueh counties aheall each receive
anmael salaries not to exceed the amounts herein
specified, saté suleries to be paid in equally
inetelinonts, at least one-half and not
cmpes three-fourtha, out of tihe Read and
Bridga Fund and the remainder out of the Gouneral
Fuad of the county; aaid assecscdé valuations ant
Stiarios appliiemble thereto being as follows:

oe 20,000,001.00 aml less than $,005 ,000.06
see pat i aC ‘ ~~
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<div class="ocr">a Sheet, amt c# gt Ty
NREL ar PREY SRL es

Ton, T. Ke Wilkir nm, page 2

Articole 2350(1), Vernon's Annotated Civil Statutes,
reads as follows:

"fhe salary of each County Somaisailoner and
‘each County Judge may be paid wholly out of the
County Generel Fund or, at the eption of the Com
missloners Court, may be pafd out of the County
General Fund and out of the Road end Eridge Fund
in the following proportions: County Judge not to
exceed seventy-five per oent (75%) of such saleries
may be paid out of the Hoad and Bridge Fund, and
the renainder out of the Gancral Fund of the Gounty,
and each County Commissioners's salary may, at the
‘discretion of the Commissioners Court, all be patd
out of the Read end Bridge Fund; provided this
Section shall aot apply except in counties where |
the constitutional limit of twenty-five conta (25¢)
on the One Hundred Dollars ($100) {a levied for.
general purposes,"

Article 2350(1) was enacted in 1935 by the Lith Legis~
leture, Reguler Session, Houze Bill No. 408, See. 2, p. 1038. —
Thie seme Act alse amended Article 2356 ond is the ad anendme nt
to said Article 2350.

Generally 5 sper » the annual salaries of Count
Commissioners is fixed by th 2 Cominasioners Gourt in ita ft

reguier meeting esch year by order duly m ade and entered

the minutes of the Court. wi the linite as provided: by Ar:
ticle 2350. (See article 2350 (2}). Such salaries are fixed

_, by said Court. based upon the tots aogessed Yaluations gall...
~ propertion: oertiried ‘by the County Assensdr-Coliector; spproved “  ~

by the Commissioners Sourt taco neat purposes for. the: previcus .
yeer, That is to say that the saluries of the County Comile-
afeners for the yeer 1944. are base 4 on the total aasensed val-
uation for the previous year (2943) . |

Article: 2350(1) euthorizes the Comiesioners Sourt to
ay ali of the salery of eagh Commissioner out of the General
und of the county provided the constitutional limit of twenty-

five cents (25¢) on the §200 valuation is levied for gensral
purposes. It will be noted,.as above stated, that the sonsti-
tutional limit of 25¢ on thé €100 valuation waa not levied for
general purposes in Hil] County for the year 1943, There was
fovied 2l-3/4¢ on the $100 Yaluation for gencral purposes tn
said county for 1943. Thexefors, the salaries of the County
Commisaioners of M111 County for the year 1944 cannot be w
paid out of the Generel Fund but such salaries must be paid out .
of the funde and in the menter and anount as presoribed by Ar-
ticles 2350 and 2350(1) for the yasr 1944.

In connection with the foregoing statement, it is ;
opinion, thet if the county hes legeliy levied the sonsti-

tutional Limit of 25¢ on the $100 valuation for general purposes

for the year 1944 thet the salaries of the County Conmiasioners
of said county can be paid wholiy out of the General Funi for
the yeer 1945, Of course, fais is within the discretion of the

Commissioners Court. yours very ms, oe eexas
ASTOR
APPROVED NOV. 13, 1944 gy /s ardedi Williams AWertejrd

/af Grover Sellers Assistant
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