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

Bonarab1.o T. X. Trlmble First Aarletant State Superintendent **Austin, Texan**  _. 

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Dear Sir;

plnien roquert of follalYingC 

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ate axl County taxaxpaying mater, nwit a person .~ paid hie 1940 taxes? *5. frra parrron aoneidud a taxpeylae voter who has onlf render54 hla property tar **tOrati0nP** "6* Woulda peraonvho hns real oz **pP5OM1.** preperty subjeot to taxeti?n, whlah Bar not been rendereb, be aOn$$dcrred a qualified tatpap%& teter and eligible .to rote fa mbbad eleatiQn?* IHonorable T. Lf.TrImblo, pa@ 48

The mnner of holding a bond eleotlon in an independant echo01 dlatrlet 

### lagovamad by the law regulating general eleotlona. 

### Artid **E788,****Vernon*8****Annotated Civil**  Statutea, 34 Tama Juriaprud8no8, 650.

**At** th8 outretwawill aummrlao the quallfioationa OfToter8 in an itidepandant l ohool diatrfat bond alaotian aa daiinad by tha Constitution and tha Statute8 of Tana. Wewill 

### fbn attmpt to answer oaoh apeoiiio quaatIon In tha ardor in whloh they hare baon aakad.

ApW8On oSiUi 7 to vote in a bond elaation in an lndapan4ent aohool dlatr ot muat bar8 raaided in the Stat8 for ollb year, In tha oounty air montha, be OWEtha aga of **twenty-one,** must hre pld a poll tax prior to FebSturyf&at praoeding the alegtion., or **be** axWept therafrom, muat ba a **oitison** of the Wnltad State8 aimImuat owntanblo pr0paz-t~ in tin l ohool dlatrlat whIoh ha haa duly randared for taxation. 

### Aperson **under twenty-oar**  pars OS

### age,idiot8 and lunatiea, pauper8 mpported bg tha county, all parsons oonriotad 

### ora faloql who80 ettiranahip haa not baen restored by pardon, and all aoldlera, aerlnea and leaaen employed In the aamIoe of tha aPmyor 

### navy,are &laqurlIflad. Oonatltution of Texas, Art. 6, 800. 1, Z, Sa; Vernon*8 Annotate4Cltll Statutaa of 

### Texaa Arta.EQ!U, 8955, E955a (by whloh 

### saidaeatlona of tha Oonatitutlon wereplaoed in **our** statutory law)* Oaxupball 

### ta. Wright, 95 3. W. (8U) 140 

### TaxerPubllo Utlllt~aa Oorporation vs. Holland, lea 9. W. (I? d110&B. In reply to rour rlrat quaatlon you are adtiaod that in **our**opinion **before a** peraon **Wn Vat@,**  hia ptOpOrbf muat appSm on the tax roll.8 of the partietiar dlatrlat holding the election. Art. 6, 880. 38 of t&e Conatltutlon of Ten8; **Barker**~a. WIleon, 805 9. W.543; 37 TexasJ11rl8pru681~0 @8c*

Quaation m&bar two la anawarad tn the nO@tiYa. Thara la no rwqulrenvnt that a voter **be a** **fJtat@ ana**  **muty taxpayer**  **in order**  **to be**  qwlifl6b t0 tota Ia an IMependant aohool dlatrlot 816otion. saotlon 5a of Artiala 6 Ofthe cOMtitUt:On 0s T-8 Previde8 that oti **eleetora who** **own taxabrs**  **propertp in**  **the d&W**  **at whU** * **sooh 1** qualified
*hotIon f8 bsld, an4 who her8 dulf rsndarad ume for tamtlon ahall ba qualffiad to '10ba*,Honornble T. LI.Trimbla, page 83

Gueatlon numbor 

### three la anawared in the negative. Sohool DCt~r,eU~~nr,'E~~~'~V~~ $&!4~~&e~~a~~~~ of Balton and 

### laa separate and dlatlnot entity, having ita owngoverning body.

House Ml1 #lOD lrort -8ennth Legleleture 

### amen&a Artlo 8955 of the Revhad 0 vi1 Statutoa of the $tab of i Texas, relative 

### to the quallfioatlona to tots, aald law beoari* efieotlr4 on Woh 5, 1941, and reads, in part, 

### asfollowat "Provided that a alty poll tax shell not be required to rot* in any eleotlon in thlr State, emapt in olty elaotlon8.~ CLueatlon number rour la anaw4rad In the nogtlte. There la no r6 ulramnt of Texan stating that e in the Constltutloa or Statutes axes must be actually paid, the only raqulremaat being thet a qualified eleotor muat onn taxable property 

### in the 

### diatriat rrhero auoh l leotlon la held and who

### has duly reml*red the 

### 8-e for taxation. Boa. Ja, Art. 6 of the Oonatltution OSTexasi Artlole 8965a, Yemon*s Annotated Clrll StatUt48; ampb*ll WI. Wright, l upra. 7?;unetlon numb*r rlro la 

### answeredin the affirmatlre. As stated above, the only repulrvmant in ths Statutes and the Constitution of Texas to be quallrl*d to tote in abond eleotion la that said property must bmin the aohool 

### dlstrlob and aam must be aalr rendered 

### ror taxation. We. 3a, Art. 6 or the Constitution, and A Clvll Stetutoa, rtlcle MISSa, Vernon** Annotated

cueetlon numbor air Is anarared in the negative. 34~. 3

### orArt. 6

### or the Constitutlo~ 

### epeeirieaiiy states that said property must be dul rondered for taxation 73 before a voter is sll@ble in e bon eleotion.

As

### tothe manbig 

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### rend4r46~tfu 

### oeurt*oi this State, in the 

### 6aaeaor Campbell vs. 

### Wrh%ht WI To=* Publie Utllltl4a vs. Holland, 8upra, h*r* bad th4t lf a*Honorable T. K. Trlmble, page #4



### property of a oitlzen is on the tax roll aod he lo 11sble ror the taxes 8sSesS0d hebae “duly fendered the samemlmorar as hie right to rot6 under the provlalona OrArticle 6, See. 9a of the Texas 

### Constitution, la 

### oonoerned, without regerd to the mannerin which the rendition of such property was

### made. Property maybe rendered bythempereonally or through 

### an agent or be aseemed by the tex asaaasoc ii the pro rty cwner has rolled to render the pro rty. Weare am oaln a oopy of our oplnlon Numhar O-11 8, whloh more r E[ r 

### dear&y erlnes this term.

Truatlng that thle answpyera your questions, weare Ver)rtruly yours ATTORWET

OTiZQRAL

OF'i"EXAS

COB-a

APPROVEUAPR 8, 1941

ATTORNEY GZNSRAL OFTEXAS



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