Court Opinion

ID: 4140766
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2017-02-18 03:02:58.723161+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:35:25.508009
License: Public Domain

OFFICE   OF 77iE A’l7-ORNEY      GENERAL   OF TEXAS

                                           AUSTIN

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                                        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,quest:on:~...Amder~k 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