Honorableml. P. pavie CountyAuditor Ellis coun* Waxahaohie,Texas
Dear Sir8 OpinionNo. O-7140 Ret (1) Authorityof home rule oity to installParkingmetersonoountp roper* surrouudingoourthouee: 2) Legali* op OOunQ Installing i: parkingmeters on aouutyproperty surroundingoourthouse.
We are in noeipt of Pour letter of reoentdate request&g the op inionof thiadeparbwnt ontheabove etatedmatters. We quotefromyour letter as follower
"Gouldparkingmeters bs installedon countyproper* surroundingthe OOUl-thOU6S?
"If tieabove ie answeredin tbeaffirmative,-could they be instilledw the City of Nbxahaohiewith revenuederived theref%!agoing to the oitJrT
"If perkingmeters aould be installedby the ooun~ with all revenuego- ing to l&e county,oould the oommiasionors~ oourt enter into a oontract with a parkingmeter oonoernwhereby the private ocsapany would install them and get 7tiJc of the rehnue fYcm the parkingmeters until such time aa they are vald for ln fulJ,tthereafterthe countyreoeivingall the revenuefrom the meteraT,
"The Ci* of lbxahaohieIs oontemplatingthe lnbtallationof parkingmet- ers on oi* streetaand has appearedl&ore the Ellis County Cozwaib.sioners* Court for permissionto installthem at the ourb surroundingthe oourt- house. The oountyproper@ line extends 16 feet into i&the streetand thus the installationwould be on oounty-ownedproy;ertg.e
Aoooxdingto informationfurnishedIy the Office of the Secretary of State,the City of Waxahachieis a home rule oity. With referenoeto the dominion,oontroland jurisdictionof the streetsin a home rule city, we call your attentionto the followinglanguagecontainedin Article 1173, RevisedCivil Statutes, . &,Il. Xc. P. &ViS, &Use 2 (O-7140)
"Cities adopting the ch+er or cummdmenthereundershaI.1 hsve full paarer of loos1 s&t? p3vennmnt, and among the other panrrs that iroybd exercised ly any such city the folloningare herebyemceeratedfor grrsteroertaintyr . . . '16. To havs exclusivedominion,controland jurisfiieti.:n in, over and under the publicstreets,avenues,alloys,hi@q:yz 2nd , ad p:bliogrc'mdsoi such city . . .
"2G. To license,operateand controlths oysr&tionci'nii c!irrcctsr of vehiclesusing the publio&rests, inOhding noixuoytilds, autcavobiles or 1i.k~vohioles.'
Zx 39 Texas Jurisprudence, "Streets," S%tion 88, ~2. 3&i'+%, WJ find tie following language8
s. . . Amunicipal oorporationhas parasmuntjurisdictioneni aintro over its etreetetandthe oountphas no oontrolover them. This is true of a roadwey whioh the countyhas relinquishedto puhliouss; nor does any dis- tinotdonexist by reasonof the faotthat the countyowns the fee in ths street. . . ."
With referenae.tothe oity~sauthori* and controlof a city aixeet,thefee and title to which was in the countyawe call your atten- tion to the followinglanguagecontainedin the opinionof the Court of Cr%inal Appeelsin the oase of Sv ?'arbsBradshaw,159 SO??.259, whioh involvedthevalidity of aoi% ordinanosregulating peddlingupon the streets8 llippella&.'soo&ention.ihathe wae on that part of the publicsquare,the ?ee and title towhiohwas in the oounty,and t&t the oomty gave him authoritgto establishand mainteiahis peddlinglusinessthere,oannotbe ~intsined. Where he located and kept his wagon and horses in his ped- dling business,as shown,was in the.publiostreetor squss'e.Sill county ooulrlno more give him p0w.w or euthoritJr to obstruottha streetsor pub- lic squarsthan aqy other corporationor person could do. Clearlythin location11~swithin the oitv limits.and on the lmblic streetsor square. prvedand used for plbliouses, end-theoi@f,and not the oou& had - &-isdiation, poeor,and authorityover it,.at least,for streetpurp*;as and for e publicsquare for the publao."(Undersocringo;lrsthrougho'zt
. Consnissionem' In tie ease of City of Lookhart'v Court of Cald- wwll CC'WQ, 278 S&T. 319 (errorrefused),whioh