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

Konorablr Ti U. .Trimblo“,, #irot **Assiataat** hato **Superintendent of**  ikblio **Instruction** Austin, Texas **Dear Slrr**  Opfalon Ho. 0451s

This ln reply to you in& an **ODiniOlt** of this dapnrtmim 

### letters attached to youf letter. Babel, **Aaaessor** and Colleotor **or** Taxer ,are aa **r0ii0w88**

prll 24, lawhloh Attorasy Oeneral~~ Oplaioa **of** the **board of**  **trustee8** 0 serva a8 tax amorrsor-crolleotor
**o state**  **further that**  I am eleoted State assewor-oollaotor and the law if an7 school dlatrlot in the County don't want Wappoint their own tax assessor-oolleotor, then the State and,.Countytax asseesor-oolleotormust awes6 

### en&aolleot tor the sohool dlstrlot as I am not a speoial assessor-oollector of the school blat. I am the State and **County tax**  **~amessor oolleotor** 
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### I am wrong, I would llk0 for you to adrie3 me whether or not I sarireiu3e to a3wa3 or ocrlleot fwtfka ~lwbus Ind.,SohsolDiat. or any other #oh001

Lstter **dated Kay**  **6, 194Ut** 



### “1 hM3 fOUr htt8r Or bay 4, ID UhiOh fO9 **stated** tab **it I3**  **yciar opinion**  **thak ly**  oft103 a3 **Cow&y A33s33of-Coll3otor,**  **3nb** also asaes#i~'arid 

### aollsotlng.for tha CBlumbu3 **Xnd.** 3QlmolDlat. are la oonflicb'

with af **dutior a3**  3~38za?m of the Saard **or Truatee3**  **of tb3**  Colugbu8 Ind. ,23h031Die8. Tou al30 etdtrd that youwsmld prbsmt the imttsr to ths xttornoy @inerd r0r hi3 oonsldrmtioa 

### and opinion, lf I 

### do dsrire. .X3?pleas4 aat 

### an oplnloa 

### tram 'ih6

Attorn6y htnural on tbie matter.*
W# ar# attaohfngto this opinion aa6 aaklng a part of **same,**Opinion **Ho. O-6324,**  **rendered** by **this drpartwnt**  **hbruary 28,**  **1948.** i% qmte from piI@ 8 Of said OpiniOQl

"Rhea Art1013 104Bbwas amended in 1941 80 a3 to oait ladtgendrnt sohool dlstrlata iron ita provisions, ruoh diatriotswere left with thi power und3r,Artfol3 Z79t to rsGulro trxlaseaaor8 and doileotorr to 

### asse~aand oolleot their 

### tRxe8, but no 

### provielon hagbean wad8 to oa-~rpmsmteruoh tar ao8ep1sora and oollcrotorr

for r?oh 

### mbrvios.” 3lnoa J&lole 8798 

### plaoee the Duty U~OQ thr ooanty tax aa8emor a$d oollectm to oolloot tha Ears8for e3 

### lndependrnt rohool diatriot a tax ammatmrand oolleotor aannot lstgr\lly **refuse to**  per**form that**  

### duty.

If 

### a eowty tax amemor und collaotor oould le$ally imrma &a ,acmiber of the **Board** of **Truoteeu** of an latiepe~deot so&o01 distrlot, ruoh tax 3033as0r and CollsotOrwould le in a poritlon, au a menber of eald Board, to **vot3 upon**  the prcpoaitiona8 to

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whether ho 8hould be the aeaoamr and oolleotor for the dlatriat or whether the Board oi tiohoo&Trustees should esnploysoaeoce rlob aa ruoh limemor and eolleotor.

It 18, th&oro, the opinion of thfe departxtenttbat the 

### 0rri00 or County **imbe6or** and callrotor, 'inthe inotant 0aae0, 16 lnoo~tiblb with thb oriiob or Trustee or 

### an lndeprndent sohool dirtrlet. Taylor v. Browlter Gounty, 144 8. Vc.314, 

### errorbirmlsae&, judgnrnt eorroot) Pmitt T. Qlenrose Independent zohool Dietriot, 184 9..1. (id) 1004,~(8~. Gt.); Th0ma4 et al v* Abernathy County Idno Xn(lopodemt Sohool Dirtriot, a96 8. W, 15% Your8 rbrg truly