Court Opinion

ID: 4144781
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2017-02-18 03:49:20.599012+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:22:02.025535
License: Public Domain

OFFICE    OF THE   ATTORNEY GENERAL          OF TEXAE
                                       AUSTIN

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St~Wto8,       rol*tiu        to “Publie Yo1~h.r~         60    not   prOtid@
ror th       pUEeha8e    Md    88ithtMMOO         Or 888108 r0         a pub110
rri(yhorby the oommlroionor8'oourt of                     l   louaty.
        ue rooo#tli8othe rO0t that ttlo roaml8rionrn'
oourt ha8 k llod authority to do what aa7 br aaoo88u7
             So O? the dutle8 ltiormd
i8 the exert'p                           upon ltr a PASO
COUNTY ~8. SLAM, 8uprh                Thuetorr,      we   uo not
upon   the    quostlon    or whether or aot the lonuai81pasdv
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oourt mq  purobaro roalor to be urod by 8ha oount7 for
oouatf buslnoem~ But there 18 J&O more impllod lutkorit~
ror th0 oomi~8ionur~   oourt 0r a oounty to purohaso ~6
mintaln soalor for a pub110 weigher than there 18 ox-
prerr authority in thm Oonstitution or the statutor.

        It  18 our opinion that Under the Qonatitution o?
T6ma  and the lrlrting rtatutm relatifq to tbo power8
Of oomal~rlonorr’ oourt sad the 0fri0a 0r publk w6ip;hU
the oomiarlonor8~ oourt of a oountr ha8 no autkorlty to
purOh&30 and maintain eoalor ror a publio i;oighor.
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