**OFFICE OF**  **THE ATTORNEY**  **GENERAL OF**  **TEXAS**

**AUSTIN**

Honorable R. A. 

### &Inert, Chairman Civil Jurleprudsnoe Coumlttee State Senate **AU6tin,** Texas



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**bill** laws \mdec A&lo1 u1ree of lotal and 6p60hl Btate @onatltutlen.Honorable R. **A.** Weinert, Chairman, 

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In detemlnlng the purpoeo of the bill, ye may 

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the legislative journalr. Red RLler Rati-

. Feraum 109 Tex. 287, 206 S. W. 923, Hurt Y **Oak** Downm, 66 8. W.'(28) 294 (appeal dismissed, 97 9. 

### W.'(2d) 673). When this blll was before the House of Repre6entatIve6, the following statemsnt **wa6** made by Repreeentatlve Dlokson of Bcxar County: (House Journal, pagea X576-1377)

"Thle Is an explanation of my vote on H. B. No. 334, which la a looal law affecting the Health Department of the 

### City of San Antanlo, TexaE. ThIe bill 1s maas to q&yto San Antonis by **uee** of the populatlon braoket devloe, and it undertakes to regulate the affalrr of no other olty. Governor O'Danlel hae!oondemned this type of leglelatlon, and Attorney tineral Mann has ruled repeatedly that **this farm**  **of** 

### bill rlo&rter8eotlon 66 of ArtlaleSI

or the Texas ConGitution. In y opinfrpg the bill 18 of doubtfuleonrtitntlonality md I ham -#ted to my eolleaguea fros Bexar Gounty that all **auel ’** **blllr,** 

### aireatingonly 6anAntonioOP Bexar County,be 

### rererreu to the Attorney General for an oplnlon **a6 to**  their 

### valialty before theh are enacts& Into law. My aolleaguer have 

### not agreed with my ouggeetlan and being **outvoted** four to one, I think that it **16** unralr to bring 8 loaal fight to the floor of the **Bouse** and ask the other 

### Hembersto take rides **on** an lrsue in which they have little **or** no interest. Shoe I as or the oplnlon that b%l.lr of thir nature are an abuee or the law-making 

### pouer and aan only eorve **to** clutter up the aourte and oauee further lorr of raspeat
ror our law8 I can oonrlstently

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## part 1.n**their p866w**  ma f, therefore, answer a8 'pre6entand not Yotlllg."

**We**are unable to think of any **r6rsoMb~e** relation between **the objeot**  of the bill ant?the pepulatlon **brackets, exaept**  

### to make the **bill** 

### applleableonly to **the** 

### City oi San Antonio. 

### The minimumpopul.ation requirementdght be emlalned

on the barls that smaller sitler bo 

### not need to have a Board of Health, but 

### oui operateunder the 

### generalmtatuteeproviding for the appelntment of Health Offloers, See Artialer 4424-4426,Honorable FL A. Welnert, **Ohalrmam,**page 3



### Vernon'sAnnotatedalrll Statutre. Hewver, this explanation would make the rxalucllon of altier aontalnlng more than 290,040 

### inhabitante

purely arbitrary. We are thereforeforaed to oon

### elude that the purpose 

### of the bill **wae** 

### to olngleout the City 

### of 8an Antoniofor spoolal 

### treatment,and that the bill Is a apeolallaw and thereforeunoonetltutlonal.Bexar Countrv Tynaq, 128 Tex. 223, 97 6. W. (28) 467; North**Texas** 

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v. Bryag 116 Tex. 4%. 294 3. **W.** 

### 527;Randolnhv. ta e, 117 Tex.'Cr.80, 36 S. W. (2&l 484; Smithv. State,'l2:Tex. Cr. 431, 49 9. **W.** 

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Very trulyyours

ATTORNEYOEi?ERAL

OF TEXAS

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