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<p>OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS 
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<p>AUSTIN </p>
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<div class="ocr">Honorable ¢. H. Kidd, dy., Page 2

this sepy vith the county clerk without any
compensation where the city clerk is paid a
selary by the City Commission. Our question
is vhether or not the city clerk im an incor~-
porated town with a population of more then
2500 is entitled to fifty cents for each birth
and death certificate filed with the county
clerk, Our coutention is that she is not en-
titled to such sum. The opinion vhich you
sent me was the opinion under the old lev and
would not govern the present question.

“a @ a,"

Your letter of July 29, 1941, vhioh was referred to in
your letter of August 14, 1941, reads, in fart, as follows:

"“yne Legislature recently amended Article
MATT sd G. 8. 1936, Section 20 or Rule 53a,
whieh recites:

"tenet each Local strar shall be
paid the sum of 50) eents for each
birth and death oate properly and

wade out and regis resi steret with hin,

and covrestiy weoorded and |

by him to the State Bureau of ol Fence seeseh Be
as required by this Act, unless sush

PLoS PeS SHA. OS BOERS OS FOS. SS TART

“Stthe State Registrer sha? samaliy serti-
fy te the County Coamisaioners Court or 7
Auditor az the case may be, the number of birth
death certificates led by each Local Reg-
tetvar at the rate fixed herein, and provided
that the State Registrar may render euch state-
ments monthly or quarter’. be at the disaretion
of the State Board of and the Gomnie-
sioners Court or County anastor, as the case
may be, shall audit sush statement and the Goun~
ty freasurer shall. seach fees as are approved
by the Commissioners or the Gounty Auditor,
at the time euch statement is ieaved.'
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<p>Rouombla J, R. X%dd, Jr., Pqp 3 </p>
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Honorebie J. H. Kidd, J?., Page %
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<p>AwlR8 </p>
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<div class="ocr">Honovable J. BR. Kidé, Jv., Page 5

give hin such compensation as the registrar. Otherwise, the city
clerk was to seoeive the atatutory fifty cents fee from the coun-
ty. Gonsidering the language, subject matter and the obvious: --
Legislative intent, this is a fair and reasonable construction.

3t is our opinion that a city clerk also serving as
registrar of Vitel Statisties in an incorporated city having a
population of more than twenty-five hundred (2500) tuhabitentes,
whieh does not heave an ordinance providing a dalary or fees for
his duties as strar, but whose salary is fixed in the minutes
of the city cs ssion or eity couneil, as the case my be, with-
out reference to his duties or obligations to register births and
deaths, is entitled to receive from the eounty the regular fee as
provided by lew under House Bill Wo, 621, Acts of the 47th Legis-
lature, supra,if said city clerk is serving as registrar of Vital
Statistics performs all the duties and requirements imposed upon
@ losal registrer by lev.

Under House Bill No. 621, supra, it is "that
each local registrar shall be paid the sun of tirty (50) conte
for each biyth and death certifierte properly end completely made
out and registered vith him, end correctiy recorded and promptly
returned by him to the State Bureau of Vi Statistios, as re-
quived by this Act, unless this lose] registrar shall be acting
trax births oaths in an incorporated sity where
otherwise fixed by cit;

te’ tter, that yeu have a of
, in view of this » we do not deen it

Yours very trely
SSTORERK GERERAL OF TRIAS

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Ardéeii Wilitans
Assistant

AW:RS

APPROVES

OPINION
COMMITTER

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GMAIRMAN

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