**OFFICE OF**  **THE AlTORNEY**  GENERAL **Ok+ TEXAS**  **AUSTIN**

Hanoruble Barry 8oyd 

### CountyAttorney BeuidsraonCounty Athens, ‘&ma6

**Your 33quest**  **for he**  **rollowln& oteted**  **cpl ‘** **astion:** Isslttea have andidata who office at the 8 2kfteT Said 8iW$- ere uanvasaed,* ooneidarad by this dapartment,

Eominatton deelined maydeoline and annul his mmofficer with whom ation is filed, tcm daya beiora ths eleutlua oftioe, andtwenty days -11other oases, a deola- t if it be

### for a oity mtion in writlnz3, signed by hirabefore emno oftiosr authorized t3 take aokno--uladgmemts. 7li-m suoh deolination (or in ease of death of a llOJ&itl~~), the dXfMUtiVt3 COdttiW3 Of (I FWtyor a mnjorlty or thea for the State, dietrio% or o.ounty aa the offloe to bemminated aiy requfr&, maynominate a aandidate to supply the vacanoy by filing with the eoretary of State in the base of State or d9atrlot offioera, or with the county Judge in the oaso 

### or oount or preoinot orf% oera a oertifloate duly 6gned andaoknowl4 f edge by them, eettlng forth the oauae of tha vaoanoy, the mimeor the newnoalnee, the offioe for shioh he waendmlnated end whenandhowhe wa$nominated. Hoexeoutire oomitteo rhall ever have power ot nomlnatlon, except where a nominoe ha8 died or deollned the non&nation ae provided in this artiole.W Article8 3172 and 3173 of the Revised Civil Statutee of 1911 whioh are nowaodifled by Vernon ee Artiole 3165, V. A. E, S., aupra, were oonetmed by the SupremeCourt o? TeBis In the ease of Gilmore v+ Waples, et al, 188 9. X. 1037. ?ie quote rrom the oourt*e opinion a8 followsr

* Thepowers of a State sxeoutive oommit~e~in reepeot to makingmmlnatlonr for ita party are dealt with in Artioles 3172 and 327) of the Rerlaed Statute& It ill provided In Artiole 3172 that in oaee of the death or 8nominee for a State Office, or the deollnatfoa of suaha nomination by a ntieo, the State Xxeoutive Committeeof the party maynominate a oandfdate to eu~plp the vaoanoy~ The auooeeding artlole, Artlole 3173, deolarea:

“*Ho exeoutive commlttee shall ever have any power BPnomination, except where a nominee ha8died or aeolined the nomination a8 provided in Artlole 3172.’ DThereis nothing embiguous about these twoartlolerr. 

### Ifor is their intention in any wlise obaouse. Theyvery plainly oonier upon a State oonsaittee the power of nominating fa oandidate for a State oiiioe in lnetanoea where there haa been a previous nomination and.the nominee hae either deolined the nomination or has died. Juet ao unequlvooallyHmorablo Harry %oyd, Page f

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they deny suoh power to the oomlttes in all other instanaea. Thelaagu~a of Arti01s 3173 1s pointed, olear end oertain, and there ia nothing about It or ita oontext that would warrant a oourt in setting it aside. A rtatute so plain andumlrtaicable leave8 nothIng ior lntsrgretatlon or oonatruotion. All that oourts maydowith auoha statute i8 to observe It and earoroe it.

. . .m Artfolecr 3124 and 3125, Vernon18Annotated Texas Civil Statutes, provide tar ths oountf exaautfv’o oommlttee to Oanv8M the returna of the eleltlon 

### ana dOOlal% the rc mat. Artiole 3125 8la0 rsqulrea the ohalman of the oouatp exsoutivo oommlttee to oertlfy a6 nomlneo the oandldato who reoaiYod the woeMa

‘1: vote to nominate. or ooumo the hoalnee oarinot be orf oielly aid legally knownuutif the returna hare been oanvassed and the reeulte deolarsd in aooordanos with law.

It is our opinion that your question shmld bs
,’ answered in the siflrmativa, and it is so anSwered, very truly your6 ATTORNEYGENERAL

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