a. **OFFICE OF**  **THE ATTORNEY**  **GENERAL OF**  **TEXAS**

**I \y**  **AUSTIN**
**Q=hLm 0.**  **MIWW** **Arroll*naolLnu**

Honorable Henry M. Wilder county Attorney Live cak county George West, Texas

old general eleoappointed to hold ion elbation, or at nerelJ 

### roqulre that er of Jtulger,

olerk8, I.&ad but that ruoh J be diiterent perman who hare been or maf ted to hold general

ridgeof thlr county hae reguertimm you an opinion **or** the aonla&d on the following portion of the Penal Code, Aots 1935, p. 1795, Ch. 467, **Art.**
“-provided that 

### raid Court rh4l.l 

### appoint ouch offiaers to hold rwh eLectiona 

### asI now 

### requlred to hold general e1eationri.f “The quertion Is doer the act require that the etuw persona who h8re been or max be derlgn&ted as officera to hold general eleotlonn runt. i



### .Boaorable Bepry H. Wllde~, page 2

be appolutud to hold the loaal option eleatlon, ? ’ cir, dOea the rat 

### llwrely require that the 861~ number oi Judges, olerlce, eta., be appOinted but that such offlaere manay be diifemnt person0 

### that whose whohave been 

### or mar be deelgnated to 

### ‘fioTd @snaral 

### eleirtione. “I 

### have advised him that the a& doee not re-
~uire thatthe l

### em persona be appointed imhold a low1 option l



### leatlon ae have been or may be deeignatedtoholdganeml@eat&ane, but that he may appoint dlrferent hse the ee~~mambe~mda G ream 80 Lag as he - es ccaharaater or

.. offlolale, ae repulred to hold geneal aleatiozu.

‘To myiaind the statute fe alees and rrleao no queetiau that the 8-e perrozm need ?M appointed, ii. such had been the intanZi.on of the tegie- : lature itvouldhavs uaediraguegonmre appiprlate ta aonvey it’s iotentian that ‘ale eumo po.rmna should be appointed.* 

### ~.. A&tlale 666-3i?,

### Veman@e Annotated Penal %ede, proviaee foe the holUng OS local o ption l 

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shell be pmhlbitod 

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vlde* I Article 666-33, 

### ~ernon~~ ¬ated-Penal Oode,

Whwe the 

### tfommksslansrs~ ooudi shall order 8u aleotion as herei0 ppo*dad for, 

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### duty of

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### eloatUn to be he ld 

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### said order, an&the opderthue nede shall eqmeee the objeot OS l



### uah eleatien &ridehall be held to be prima raoia 

### evldena6 that all the provadone neaereaq 

### to giveit valldlty 

### or f0 ulotha the oourttith jurladiationtoadrc, it 

### m.ia,hwo been duly aomplied with,~ .pxw&l8d that l 

### a%a ocmt 

### rhell appoint ma& offlucrrr 

### to holdstabelmtlon a8 flov roqtired to hold gwmaf eleotl.oU.* Artio1e 66635, vs&Anwiuxot~teb PAal~&xxe, provldoe that local option eleat+n# .ehalLbe hosd mad the retux%u“\ ,

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Honorable Henry II.lqldq, ,psge3

thereof mede in aonformIty vlth the provisions oS the general lava OS the State, and by the.eleotion ofrlaere eppalntbd end quelirled 

### under euah l.eveJ **and** Article 666-36, Vernon~e Annotated Penel Coda, provides that the holding of such eleatlone by the 

### offloere shall oonform to the generel eleatlon lave in foroe regulating eleotione.

Vernon's Annotated Civil Statutes, 

### Volume 9, Title 50, Chapter 3, sets out the qualifioatlone oi otiiaare 0r eleatlone end the 

### manner of their appolntnmt. Artiale 2937, 

### Vernon’s ¬ated ClvU Statutes, 

### re ulree -precincts'



### (hsvfng less than 100 votes 

### ‘f thet in emell there 

### shall be appointed by'the bcimmZeelo.nere~ aourt, atthe February term, tvb quauried Judgei to .holdelections and the presiding judge shall appoint tvo conr@tent **and** reputable votere to.ect as clerks of the eleatlon.

Artlald 2938, VernonCe.Anqotated Civil Statutes, rovldee t&t for a lerg4 precinat (hev3ng mom then 100 votes P the aome%eelonere~ ,eourtshell appoint four judges to hold electUner. Thle.etatute authorieee the preedd.Lngjudge to appo&nt four compQtent end reputebls alerke to eeelst seld judges in hold&g th4 

### election.

: Artlolee '2937 am.2938 are a pezt ot the 'Perrell File&ii&i

I&, vhi~Jqe.beelr held n&to effeat ar ,apply to 'epeoi-al

electione, b&to be oonflned to general eleatiozui **and** prlmery dleatlone (Cheetnutt, et al., v~.Wells, 280 8.Y. 351; end authorlt&s citad~theraln). pai81 option electiona are speaiax~+eotions.

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Article 66&J3,:-eup.r&,m4raly.raquiree~thet the eeM number,~slae~e

and oharaoter or judges end eler?kll are to be ,.. ap~oIn$ed by the aomBleslcQers~ aourt to ,hold looal option el@Otione ae 

### are required to-hold 

### goneral eleatione but does not-reqWs that the *arae persons 'whs,haVe~been d4eigneted or ap$oInted as 

### ofrloers to hold gemmal eleotione must be appointed to hold loos1 option ele$Zons..

$Wmtingthet the foregoing fullyanevere your inQuLrY, -vi are 

### Very truly yours