OFFICE OF 77iE A'l7-ORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN
honorable Kc. 8. -Dall$ '[C\.* , County Attorney : 3ltchlnson county : +-Aw~ .j 3or;;er,Texa8 : ./ i... -- \ . '.--y ...... oesr s&l-r r- ...,. ..:= .., a. i o&lion ,,lfumber om49 Re: QXder..the'~.provielon~ of House fi%lL'j.Io. c146,,&8t&Lej&sla$ure; B&bythe,darmpisslonera~ court or RiltWti;bosl'county, leg117 in- .
iFutlas in WTense 3ondiror ot&r obll~ations of the . ~y3z$ti5~ statcis. As yo~~depertment had not passed on..thaf, could hot answer lzhe'quebtion, althou@be did giwe the Judge a .'copy of 761~ opi.ixLon:::o. 015278 holding that a bal.ance~.~uStheGeneral~Fund may be,so invested. wHutohinson~Cou&y.now .has6n hand approximatc- 1~,~50,000.005.nLateral Read l?uudsreceived under wQat is known asthe ~'Road'BondAasvmption~Act,~ the.lateot enactmat of i;' hich iS 8. B. 89 of~the 4Eth Le~i~latum, such funds having been recoivod thrcggh theapportionment !to the countiqa in the year of.1941, and throu;;h:tiie original ref?undand Zoollorable X*'H. Dally, page #9
apportionmentsfor prior years. The Cosmlssion- .era~aourt rind8it Qnpraoticalto undertake road 'cotmtruotlonor Wprowwient, wing there.funde, durin&tha present mmrgenny. "Under S. Ba 99 or the 48th LeXlslature;au me11 as under prior enaotmentr of this law, the' fuuda ohhand (Sea. 6, (h), (4)) may be used as r01~0w8t(a) 'for the acquisitionof right-of- -ways for county lateral roads and for.the iaymant OS legal obligations inourred therefor prior to Janqary 2, 1969; (b) for the conatruotionor ia- promsent of.oouutylateral roads; (a) for the purpose of supplementingfunds appropriatedby the United.StateaGovemment for ikdca Progress Administrationhi&way construction,ana such other grauts'of Federal Randean may be made avallablsto t;hecounties of this state for couxity~lateral road oonstmaotion;and (d) for the purpose ~of cooperatingwith the State S&h: way Department and the Federal Governsmnt in the oonstruct5onof Pam-to-market roads.* Section 9 of S. B. 89, as well as prior maotments of the law, provides 'It shell be unlartul-for anyCouuty Judge q? any County Conmissioner, rhile aotlng in his offLeial.capacityor otherwlee, to use any money out.oi the La~araLR~oadAccount tar any pur- pose bxoapkthe purposes enumerated in this Ah.0 And f&es'.a penalty for knowingly violating this provision;' "3. 3. 746 ofthe 43th Legislature,heretofore construed by gou in reference to ?.nvestln;l i;ancjral Fuuds of the county, provides as follovsr s *AllpolItical subdivisionsof the Stats of Texas whiti have b&mces rtnnalniu