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OFFICE OFTHE AII'ORNEYOENERALOFTeXAS 

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Honorable Charles H. Poteet, Page S 

since Crane County ie not able to quallry 

under the optional road law. 

*We are intarested in having a reply as 

soon so possible, since if we are doing enything ille@. we want to stop sane. Please 

let us have your opinion by Marah 85th.” 

Artiole 6785, Vemon*s Annotated Civil Statutes, rererretl to in your letter, authorizing the appointment or a 

apbclal road overseer, does not apply to Crane County an the 

00naiti0ne a0 not axlet as speairiea 5.0 Articleu 6771-6769, 

Vernon*e Annotetsd Civil Statutea. 

Fran the facts stated in your letter, and for the 

purposes 0r this opinion, we asuuw that you ham rorerrea 

to a road superintendent as mentioned In hrtl~ls 6745, VWnon’s Annotated Civil Statutes, WhlOhmds es follovm;, 

*Thfhe oo5alstafonare oourt of any county 

subjoat to this law may appoint&d a aompetont 

parson aa road ruperlntahcent ror auah oounty, 

or one such superintendent in each oonsaissioners precinct, as it shall detemlns by an 

order made at a regular tern thereof. Buoh 

order shall be entered on the minutes Of ruoh 

oourt, and shall not to vold.ror want or 

form but a subetantial oomplianoe with the 

grw~slorls or this subdivision shall be mriolent. Every road euper,intendent shall be a 

quallried voter In the aounty or preolnot for 

which he Is appointed, and shall hold his 

orrics ror two years or until ramved by the 

oonmisai~nerta dourt for g00a oauss. wo OountJ 

ehall be under the operation of this law whose 

ooimiasionara oourt does not appoint a road 

sugerlntendent OCR super.!.ntendents,w 

Artiales 6749-6761, provide:- for the appointnisnt Of 

road superintendents, set forth their duties and powers, and 

fix their salnry, elm. 

Article 6743, Vernon*8 Annotated Civil Statutes, 

provides : 

%aeh road superintendent shall reoeive 

suoh salary ea the comalusioner8 court may rix, 

to be paid on the order of oaid oourt at atatrd 
Honorable Charles EL Potwt, Page 3 

lnterval.8. in tt0wtm 0r 18~ th6n rirt880 

thoumnd lnhabltmta tho oounty superlntendent’s mlary shall never exoeed one thowand 

dol..LRrs per annuq and in aountles cb sore 

than fifteen thowend inhabitants it shall 

not 8X080a twelve hundred dollars per annum. 

The Mlary or preolnot 8u~erintendent.r ln 

00ukt0 or L~SO than rirtesn th0wMd inhabitant@ still net ezoeed three hundred 

dollars pier aoiauui, and la oountl,iro of over 

fifteen thousand Inhabitants, it ahall mvev: 

sxoeed rour hundred dollars mr annum. 

court may suspend tha mlary of tiny rugerlntendsntk whom oontinued eervloes am not 

needea.* 

.Cr?me County has a population of 8,841 lnhmbitantr 

aooordlng to the J.mt Bederal 13eaaua. It will. be noted that 

hrtiale 8743 i)roVldes thnt win oounthe or lewd than flrtean 

thousand inhabitante the oounty r:~patitendentis rslary etnU 

aover eroeed one thoumnd dfdlara per annum . . .(I Thaw 

ior8 the comtals810ner** court or Crane county 00Illd not 

lw&y pay mid road su?erlntend.ent a salary emeedlng one 

thouaend dollore per year. 

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Ardell Wllliamm 

Asrlstant 

AWtoO APPROVEDAPR 7, 1941 

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