Hon. PaulineR. Kibbe OpinionNo. V-150 ZxecutiveSecretary Good Xeighhbor Commission Re: Legalityof segregationof Latin Austin,Texas Americans,prohibitingtheir use of a county swimmingpool. Dear PIadam:
Your requestfor our opinionupon the above subjectmatter is as follows:
'liI"ne Good NeighborCommissionis in receiptof com- plaintsagainstthe arbitrarysegregationof Latin Ameri- cans in Port Stockton,Pecos County,Texas,particularly in the county owned and operatedswimmingpool.
"1 am enclosin*y herewithphotostaticcopy of the lease enteredinto betweenPecos CountyWater Improvement DistrictNo. 1 and Pecos County on April 11, 19hh, as well as photostaticcopy of a Resolution,datedJuly 7, 19113, with regard,evidently,to a previoussimilarlease, dated March 6, 1939.
"You will note that the ResolutionprohibitsLatin Americansfrom using the swimmingpool in question,and mentionsno reasonfor this segregation.
'%Jerespectfullyrequestyour opinionas to the legal- ity of this Resolution."
The photostaticcopy of the resolutionconnectedwith the lease presentedby you, in subdivision1, declares:
"That the propertyset out in said lease contract above referredto owned by said district,and partly by Pecos County,and being a stone bath house near the waters of ComancheChief and GovernmentSprings,and the water from said springsand