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OFFlCE OF

Honorable TclnF. **Count Attornw**  **AIdaa** couat7 **Lurkia, Tolao**  

### THEAmORNEY GENERALOF TEXAS AUSTIN

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### dorkklag to ooa8truot herewltb it 18 nooo8- a aorer 0r land. The **Ot8** to thi8 had 8IIdit the8o abatraOt8 oxamin

### duty .or tho county Attoraoy to rtrrot87 Should he be paid addiiOilfOt tb8. 86l'tiO08?" have 

### the authority to ooartruot 

## l lrport8 68 a0 mar bo llOOO88a~ for 8UOh ~W~08o8, 8eO &tiOl#8 h UtO8 and UOWilllOk%~8 i, Yomon~8 Annotated Tons8 01~11 StatIhis Bill el6 and &UlatO Bill 398, cL'lth'Lsgi8latW Of &Ui8. 

### None of theaa arffolss or amnbmeats **provider** tbet it 18 the dutr Of the County **Attorney** to Wid~e th0 ab.YtreCtOr title On 3.~48 **aO+ird bp**  **th6 OORnty**  ror airport gurpoasr. we are unable to **find any**  **8tatute mak**  ing it the du.tyor the County **Attcrney to**  **smmine** euch ab**8tl'tiOta.**Honorable

declarrr:

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### utioia v, 

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### 0r OUT stat0 

### cotaituti0n,

l The oouaty attorney8 shall r8protie%atO 

### ELI

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### in th0 

### Di8ttrlot and 

### laforioraourtr in their rerpootlro oouatle'8; 

### but 'iia4~ OOuaty Phu bo lnaluded in a dirtrlot in whioh thoro 8hal.l be 

### a dlrtrlot attoraoy, the rerpoetlto duties 0r dirtriot 

### attOrIley aad OoUlltf attOrlhq8 Sbu in mch countle8 be regulated bl 

### the Lsgl8laturo.

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### The **abort gtlofad**  

### prorlalon or thr Coa8tltutlOn ha8 **been** Oon8trueb a8 not prrserlbing the 

### dutie8of 

### theDirtriot 

### AttorMr aor an7 dUtiO8 

### root COWlt.~ Attornoy8 

### other **tlmn** 8uoh a8 are rmgulrsd to be **perronued** 

### ror the State. Bor d0'38it glro the County Attornoy authority to Institute a proceeding eples8 he is given 

### thatpower by rtatute. The term wdutlss* a8 U8ed in the COa8titUtiOMl proririon above set forth ha8 been 

### deolared to coaprehead the further 

### ideaof 

### power **or** authority; and honor tho County Attorney 1s raid to bars ao 

### l W.horltr to perrora auf aat la ra8est to W&oh ao duty ha8 **baan made**  **to dsvo&ra**  upon hia. Spencer 1. OalTo8ton County, **56** Tar. 3841 **klar** v. State, ZU 9. V. ESl; Dunoan v. State, 69 9. N. 905.

30 Quote tran an 0pinion rendered br Hoaomblo Scott Geine8, 

### Zlrst asrlrtant Attorney 

### otumral 0r rdxab,

- Jaauarr 2, 1935:

*unle88 the rtatuto **provider** ror tho oouaty attorney to represent the **oounty** in a oiril **aetlon,** it 18 not 

### the duty or the oountyrttornoy to do Ia oa8e8 rhsn tha oouaty attorney 18 roqulrZ'to represent the county 

### aad no 

## r6mi8 prorcrlbrd, then the coapsaaatlon oi the countr attornq 18 ths ax orrloio eonpensetlon that will be allowed under Artlols 5695, oxoept in oases where 

### a aartaln amount or 

### money 18 raoovered, then hi8 eompeasatioa 10 that authorize& by Artlols 555. *In casea where the law doe8 

### Lot repulre- tha count7 attorney to repreient the county, the boatpensation is that vihlch is agreed upon between the county attorney and the 

### coaml.~alonera* court just in the same nmnner as if some other attorney had bean smployad by the county.*

### Honorabla Ton ?. Colmran,Pago 3

Thi8 **de Xonorab1.e**  Julius %

### aitmenthold in an oplaloawritten br ranki,h8i8tMt **Attorney** odneral, 

### dated September 

### 11, 1934,that the **Cond3810ner8t** 

### Courthad the 

### tipliedatlthorlty a8 generalaalreger of oounty b~8lnos8, **to** 

### retainpriratoooun8al

### in thepro8eoutioa0r 

### olvllrultr 

### larolrlagcountymatter8 

### gsnorallyand that thereuero ao **8tatutosy** 

### provision8making 

### ittho dutr 

### eZ tho Countf 

### Attorney 

### to repre8aent 

### the oounty in coAdM8stion pmoe8diagr Or trO8m88 

### t0 trr tit10 and ia~lrnCtiOll 8Uit8, 8lld that 

### the Commlasloner8'Courthad authorityto appropriate 

### money out or the generalfund or the Oounty to pay theattorney8 hir8d to represent the oounty in 

### moh piooeobiagr.

Qplnlon IO. o-1040 of thi8 **department:**hold8 that it 18 not the duty ot thr Couatr Attorney to reprssmat the 

### eowty 

### in condemnationprooeedingrand that the Commls

### 8loMr8' Court ha8 theauthorityto 

### Oontwot wlth theCouaty Attorney to repkesent 

### the county in eaxhprooeedingrand oozpensatahim a8 por oontnaot.

fn the MS08 Or ~OM8 **T.** ~OltISMU. 191 8. U. 

### ma lattimore,r. Tarrant County, 124 9. N. 205, it wa82J37, 

### held that the COEEUiS8iOfldt8' Court may lawfully-ploy thr CountyAttorney to roprosoat 

### the **lntemsst of**  

### their oowitf in any cauaewhere moh duty 18 not enjoinedupon hlaby law. -.



### TOIA are themroro r88peotfuUy adTi8ed that it 18 

### the 

### opinionOf this drpartmsnt 

### that it 18 not the dot7 

### or the countyAttorney **to** l **miao the**  **abrtraot8** 

### 0r tit10to tha oountyalrport. Tha Caamis8ionor8t, 

### Courtwould **harm** authority 

### to **ooatraot** 

### with him a8 any Otherprfvatoattornay to exqniae8uOh l 

### b8traOt8and pay him for 8uah 8WViOO8 a8 per 

### oontraot. ‘-. 

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