OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS AUSTIN
QZM ‘ D 0. MANN .,,o(I*

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Hon. Roy Lovanthal,Chainnan, LivestockSanitary Comrllesion i:'. T. !Ya<goner

Suilding Fort Sorth, Terns
Dear Sir: Oplnlon 30. C-1272

ubeequent. quarter; (a) t, with oonsmt of Board, ted.ror one Item for to be incurredby the ty of departaentto use xgenditnresfor partlouefinite aums are approCo:zmXsAonahen attendingmeetings called by the Chairnan in towns or titles in Texas at a point where a aommittee or aonrerenceor representatfve stookmenneat in,..called regular or annual session?w "QPSTION # 2. Will it be psnissibie for members and representatives of this Departmentto be reimburser?

from the regultir

appropriation

forRon. Roy Loventbal,Page 8

travelingexpenses allotted this Department for expenses in attendingnational or state meeting8 of livestooksanitaryotfiolals at point8 outalde or this State?"
In the GeneralRldec to the General Appropriation Bill. under the heading *TravelingExpen~~es,~ we find the last paragraphof Section (0) prwi.dlng:

*No ameye herela l pljropriated

shall ever be apen to pay the travelingexpense6 of any state sp~loy4e to any type 0r aonrentlonwithLn this State of:

without the state.W rubaivlslon (I) uuae the ea&e herding or *T'raveliag Exp8M68," provide8 68, follb*rsr "ExOIBpt

a8 OthOZViM 8pOOifi4$ally SXSmpm, the prOVi8lon8of thi8 Aot shall al80 apply to department heads and Aember of Omml8alons." pee rind no pr0718ion or the appro$riatlon bin exeJ&pting

the depart%enthead8 or m%rtber8 ot the tirestook Saaftary Comalesionrmi the prorlelon8or the general rider above rererred

i to. Xlth respeot to your QUeStiOn Ho. 1, you are ad**vi8ed** that, ln,our opinion,Jm%nhta Or your depemtaent and **-p10ye88** themor my not be rsiilabaned Out 0i tmv0ling **eXPelWe rOr**  **eX@?MO8 ia0UFX.d**  iti attendingai@etim@ galled by the Chairman in town8 or oities in Texas at a point where a ooamltteeor uonrerenoeor repreoeotetive stook6mn+iuu8t in oalled regular or annaal sesrloa, ir the prime purpose or oelling 8UCh meetlag at aueh polat e.nd tiscl be to emable the membera end e5ployeesof the dttprartmmt to attend auoh conv,ention

or meeting of repreren~tive 8tooknmns.at State expense. In anmerlng your rlnt a8 will a8 ycmr l koond QW8t&i@ we attribute to the laPI4 *ooxw@ntlon~ e8 u8ed in -thepro&on of the rider quokd above, fts t&al and aomon &m&g, 'de

Pound in iYobster*8 lfewInt+matlomL Diotionary, to-wit, .-a

body or ae8enl~ly

or ~l'80n8 meeting for 8OW cmmon purpolle.-It 8eem8 to w that ao broader prohibition

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Hon. Roy Loventhal,Page 3

might have been made by the Legislaturethan the phrase "any type or conver!tIon within the state or without the: Etat4.v
In answer to ycur second question,you &re advised thnt It till not be ~~nnissible f.or nilembers

and representatlves

or your department to be reimbursedrrom the reguler appropriation ror tmveling expensea allotted **your** department,for expenses incurred in attoodingnational or state neetings of lIvc.rtock sanitary OrriOial8et points outside of this Stte. Such meetings are clearly laoluded in the phmre "any type of a.onvention." However advisable It may sees to be tbat,menbere from your departmentattend the annual meeting or the Kational LivestockAssoolation, or meetings of other organization8 of a sinllar ohamater, It is apparent that the Leglslnturehss determinedthat suoh ooniamnces or conventionsshell not ba attended by State officialsat the State's expense.

With the wisdom or auoh a provieion,this dopax%- m8nt has nothing to do. The prohibitionabove quoted ir alear end gxplioit,and there 18 no roam for conqtructlon.

Tour third quistion reads as tollowet~
"~UKTIOIP$5. WI11 It be permissibleror this Departmentto expend money that aoorued In a prrvious quarter of the tIsaal.year for salarier or any other it,em

provided the total expendituredO48 not eroead~

th$total smount allotted It on any of Ito itear;'?'+..'
Your fourth question reada as tollowo: "C$JE:YTlON

$4, Will It be parmie8fblefor thi8 Departnent,

with the aonsent or the Governor, Attorney General and State Treasurer,to transfer en approprfetlon

Sor any item to the oredit of another item where In the opinion of this Department the expenditure will prow more benefloial to our work?”
Your rlrth questAonroad8 a8 followa:Hon. Roy Loventhal,Page 4

~. “r,Uv’

,TJFW #5. Kill it be permisrible to pay our County Supervisorsthe maximum salary of $115.00 per month and the local inepectore $lOO.OO,orless per month with the underatanding that re employ some 5 or 8 employee6 in **dditi033 to**  the 55 a8 outlined in the appropriationbill?" If we understandcorreatlyyour third, fourth and fifth questions,they all involve, substantially, this one inquiry: If, by eooaozioeland effPelentmanegement,your departmenteffects a saving,by spendingless for a partioular item than the amount provided In the appropriation bill, may that saving-,

if neoessery,

be used by your Departmentto defray other proper expensesor th8 Pepertientror whiah an lnsufrloient

amount is availableby nay of a@propriatim.
It is quite oletr that sooh saving cannot be used for ths:

purpose of supplementing the amount provided by the Legislaturefor travelin.& expenses for your department, In any event. Subdivisions (a) of the subject *traveling expenaesn in the general.rl.der to the general appropriation bill providesas hollows:

"Xt la providedthat no expenditure ehall be made for travelingexpenses by any departmant or this state in esoess of the amount of money iteml&ed herein for said purpose. This provision ehall be applioable whether the item for traveling expenses is to be paid out 0r the appropriet1on Boom the General Fund, from fees, receipts or epecial funds collected by vlrtus of certain law0 of this State or rrom other funds (eroluslveof Federel Funds available for uee by a departmrnt."

1 The appropriation

for your department la made from the Oeneral Fund. In order to determinewhether.any **6aVings** effeotedby you msy be tised to defray the costs of other eervioels or expensesof your aepartment,other than traveling. erp0nae3, it is necessary to examine,tbeappropriation bill at solfte

length. Seotion 1 thereof reed8 as follOwS: *That the eeveml suma of money herein speoifiedor **EO** muot'thereof **88** mw be nCO0saery, me hereby appropriatedout Of any moneTaRon. Roy Loventhal,Paye 5.

in the State Traaaury not otherwiseappropriated,

. .." .Under

the headin~g

"Salary and Other Provi8lon8,~ in the General Rider to the General Approprjation Bill, we rind the r0110wi~::

"(a) All annual salaries shall be paid in twelve equal monthly $nstallnenti; unless otharwise providedherein. (b) The appropriations herain provided era to bo construedas the maxlmum f~ums to be eppropriated to and for the several purpo8esnamed herein, and the amount8 are intended to cover an6 ehell oover the entire oost of the respeotiveitem and the seme shall not be rupplijmmted rrora any other souroe:aqd, exoapt as ot;hamiseprovldad,ao other expendituresshall be madb, nor shallany othrr obligatlono

be inourredby any department of this.. State, provided,however, that nothing heroin shall prevent any departmentheed from paying lese than the maximum amount set forth horeln for any aalarled poeition. ” Th8 ~limitatlon of paymdnt# clause of ths General Rider to the GeneralAppropriation Bill provides in part a8 r0n0w6 2 %xospt as otherwiseprotided,whenever,by virtue or the provisionsof this Aot, item8 are to be paid out or fees, receipts, apeoial runds or out of other tunds available iOr use by a department, It Is the intention or the' Legtsletureto ~llmlt~expendlturss out- of said fees, reoelpts, speoxsl funds or other available fund8 to the purpose8 and in the amounts itemizedherein, and it is so provided.. Ir, however, the amount or the fees, reoelpts,special or other available **fUUds** herein referred to are pore than ouffioientto pay the ltwx harein designatedto be paid therefrcuv, the departmentto which the said rem, receipts, speoial iunda or other available fund6 are aPPr* prletedmay, if neoeesary to **EdeqUate~y WeriO?@**  the fWiOtiOn8or said department,ua8 eny portion of said surplusrees, r0oelPta, apeolal funds 0r other availablefunds;

. ..*Hon. Roy Loventhal,Page 6

Thie clause continuesby requiring that, berora doing 80, the head of such department shall obtain the ap proval of the Board, co:.sletlng of the Governor,the Attorney General and the State Treaeurer, $9 the expenditure of such *aurpl~awfees, raoeipta, speoial funds or other available funds.

This is the only portion of the appropriation bill which mleht In any mahner authorizethe use of a ourplus created by a saving in then smount expended for a particularpurpose for whloh a apscliled fund is made availableby appropriation. Sin00 the appropriation8 ror your departmentare made out of the General Nnd,, It lr apparent that they do not fall wlthln the oategofy of Fee,@, reoelpts,or rpeolal funds. It remalne, therefore,to determinewhether the Legislature,in the limitation.of payments.

alause, intended the term *other avdilable~fundr* to inolude amounts appropriatedfrom the.General Fund.. By rererenoe to then rlrst seotlon 0r the appropriationbill, quoted above, it 1s~ to be noted that ths Legislaturehas not, In respeot to Items appropriatedout or the Geaeral Fund, appropriateda dsrinite sum of money to be availableat all events, but has appropriatedonly so muah as may be neoe.saary to acoomplirrh

the dedred purpose,with a marlmum amount rlxed for that partloular purpose. And'ln rererriug agaln:.to subdlvlsion (a) or the portion of the General Rider relating to traveling expensee, it ~111 be observed that tke Lo fslature in the second sentenoe thereor has reaognlze three type8 of 4 appropriations: (1) from the General Fund, (8)' from fees, reoeipta or speoial funds oolleotedby virtue of certain laws of this State, and (3) from other fund6 available for use by a department.

It dfd not here treat *other available funds= as~inoludlngfunds made availableby appropriations frcnn the General Fund, but found it neoesearyto mention apprOL priatlonerram the General Fund spsolfloally. Llkewi8e, under the heedlne, "Salary Payments* in the General Rider, we find the appropriations from the General Fund se* up as a separateand dlstlnct olasslflaation, when the Leglelature states:

*Eaoh departmenthead shall number ooneeoutlvely the ealafled~pqsitlons in hla departmentlion. Roy Loventhal,Page 9

for whloh an appropriation is made herein (either out of the General Revenue Fund, fees, reoeipts, speoial funds or out of other funds available ror use by said department)

. . .” Sims the Legislature glaoed this' limited ootistruotlon

upon the term vothar avellable funds' in them saotionsof the General Bider,we must presume that it Intendedthe same lidted meaning to be esorlbsdto tlls term when it used it in the nLlmiitatlon of RaynenQP clause of the ~mms rider.

Furthax%ore,

appl- the rule of statutory oonstmotlon that where general words follow the enumoratlon of speolrio items, the getiewlwords ars to be oon- &rued as lnolgdingonly things of the same rlafq as those sRoolfloally

mentioned, the tens uother,available funds*, as used In the limitationOf paymsnts olause, is to be oonatruadas inoluding oaly those funds dedioatedOT devoted by statute.to ths utaa of a partioular

dapartmant of the State'Gararmnent.

For thssu reasons,we answar your third end fourth questions in the nogativs.

In enswer to your fifth quectlon, you are advised that the appropriation bill speoifioally

pennits you t0 pay less thati

the maximum amount set forth in your appTOpriationror any salaried positloll, but the earing whioh **you** may thus erreot **will** not be availablefor your US@ In employingand payins other amployaas fn addition to those itemized in the appropriation’ bill.
Yours vsry truly
ATTORXEY Gl5SfUL OF TEXAS

BY
RRF:.pbp R. E. Falrohlld Aseiatant

ATTORNEYGENERALOF T~;XAS