Court Opinion

ID: 4140862
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2017-02-18 03:04:03.824571+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:21:12.163966
License: Public Domain

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             ~.9, D. B. snpp8'~Esooutlvb Saor&tarj
           , yoacber Retlroment Bgdtim of Texas .

                                                                  syotom OS tlldBtato
                                                                 roximntoly $447,000.00                                         ~...

                                        G,OO3.00 th.oroSorc roproaontn ‘a
                                        char Snviqg~ Pmd, and your opinion ,“, ’                 ’
                                        oquoatod an tcr’tihetiior or hot this ‘. .;.‘~’
                    profit CM bo oonoizuod to bo lncom althin tho pro- :. -:,“, ’
                    vioibna of Sub Motion 6 dS Seotlon 0 of the .Teao!mr            . a’’
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                        nIS this profit ..&A ba ‘ao corlatruod ad ~inoomo
                .’ within t;ho povialanfi         OS the Article above roforrod’          :’      .~
                   .to, o&n the pi-oi3.t ‘Won bo diatributtid        to the variouo                “,
                    individual. ~toachoref aooounta in aoaordnnco YI:rith the.                 .,.:
                    .proviaiono of SeatTon 0, Sub 8eotion 1 R OS the
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          aa to what diopoeltiun      the 6ystom rrhould nnlco     . -
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       ’ Repl&g    to yo:    quootiona 00 quote Sitibaootion 6 of                                                                                                                              .d
  6otlon 8 of the Tonchor Retironont Law, 88 amondod by.& BI
  #oe 602, 48th Laglelature,   which reade ~au follonsr       .   ;                                                                                                                 :     .
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                “The fnteroot Fuud %tshcroby croatcd to Saci’l-             ;I. a-;            :
      ‘: .itata &.a orediling       of Interest   to the variouo            ‘. . ..
   ., .._ othor flUl&B.       AU i.nccmol intorost   and dividondo     ’ .I! I:. .- ’
   .::L... . dorivod from ‘tho .doposito and lnvostmonto av.th?r- ‘*. i : ;‘. ,.          .     “?
   l.        lead by. thin bet shall bo pa3.d ,Snto. tho Intoroot        ..~.
  . .        Fund. .‘. On00 oath yoar on Aufptet 31, lntoroot    shall      !. :‘. .’ _ :       i.
            .bo alloued .and tranaiorred    to tho othor Sundrc, re-                            .:
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  a, in* apootivoly.         The Gtato Board of Truetooa shall             ‘:i-
             annually tranefer to the oredlt of tha lntoroclt          ” : ., ’ ‘.
   ~. ’ re8eaw acoount of the Permanent llotiromont Fun& .’ ‘: ’ ‘-’ ‘-                       .‘jj..
            ‘all of,ooaa sarniugo after intorost-bear         fun&      ’ . ‘1,,_          :~ i
             and the Exponae h.n~ have been duly orodl9.B d WA&                 e            .. 2, :
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            .Sootion 8, kaboerrtion .i(d) OS the satru) law is br&ht
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             %rront     P&root     on mombo&t oontrlbutionn’       ‘:.:.         i
         shrill, be credltod annually auk of Awuet slat and.                                                                                                                                   .i
         shell .be alloved on the amouut of tho aooumulntod           ’ .~, .: ;...’                                                                                                            fi
         contributiona     standing to the oroait of the mod-’             ; ’; : “. ! ’                                                                                                        ;
         bcr ‘at the bagxnning of the yoar and ohalJ. not bo.                  , ,! ,. .; ;.y .
         allowed for parta of. a year.      Following the tarti-            :        ,.
   ‘._ nation of memborahip in the Rotiremont Syston for               ; : .” j . ‘,
    I., thooe momboro who have boon absent from wrvioe for
       , ~Slve (6), gears’ln:any    porlod 0s~ iiz (8) oone.goutlva .. .’I.* :,                                                                                                                     i.,
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         yoara, tho l’oaohcx ! Saving Fund account   or SUCh~ .          ~*
         mombcra sha:11 bo cloood and warrants oovoring            .    .:
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         the total accumulated contributions      Bent to thorn .*
         upon tho fi1j.w   OS Sowal application.      Until’ the . .           -
    .. . time of payment of such aocumulat.od contrlbutiona,         :     ’ ’
         said toaohor ahall rocoivo no lntorost      on tln0                            I.       ,~I

         amount duo him under this subeeotlon,      and the            .’ .’
       - anwunt shall   bo hold in a non-iutarost-boarll        *          ‘..                   ‘.         ..

         nocount to bo aot up for suoh purpose.”           ‘.                                          .
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            Construfng the forogotig  quotations  Srom,,tho Teacher .’
    Rotiromont Lari it Zs our opinion tbat tko profit   dcrivod Srom
    &o onlc OS the bonds ;is l%coaio and that l%.should bo paid into
    the Intordat Fund In aobordanoo with tho provlaions     of seotion
    e1 subeeotlon 5 OS tha abovo nsentionod lau, and dlstr~butod     as
    provided ,in Subooofion l(o) 0S Sootlon 0, of thy o.inonUo$Act.                                        I;
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             Yio.c~oloso horaklth a cbpy of Opinion Eumbor 04323, ’ .
    the hot pnragxaph of which opinion construoo “other revonw9
    au m?nnin(l any rovonue earnod by the pormanont nol~ol. fund OS          .
    a oounty as a rosnlt of tile ~invontmont of.-the prowodo of t&o
    as10 of ILandbelongin& to suoh Sunde.
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             Ke think it is 01e& that profit     dori&d    from l&o~t.-
    aonts authorA%d by tho MY-~oonstltutea      “lnoomo* pnd should bo .?
    paid Pinto. the Dltorost     ma,       *            . ‘.
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