Court Opinion

ID: 4143458
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2017-02-18 03:33:54.976101+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:27:26.930688
License: Public Domain

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      OFFIkE           OF THE ATCORNE,:.            :GENERAL OF TEXAS
                                           AUSTIN

Honorcrble George H. :;heppard
Comptroller  of Publfa ncaounte
&~stln,  Texao

Deerslrr

                                                              ution and talc-
                                                              ot in lnstall-

                                                             1940,   you request
                                                              alai5   ror  taxes
                                                             tractor    (an at-
                                                                      der krtiales
                                                                      thorltod to

7345b, Vernon'.3 Civil StAtutcs, lrrr~,31yGor5rns l!m pro-
ooCurz ta bo folio-m8 1~ tax toreclo~~~ra proc~~~cdlc~s. .<.
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rind nothing in any of such statutes wnlch &us::'e:;tsthat
e dollnquont tclxattorney ia OlOth8d with the power to
bind the State to agreecents to so post.pone col~tation.
iYe do not believe that the power to nentoroe or assist in
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the enroroezfmt of the oolleatioa* of suoh delinquent tax-
iit;;;lb aarry with it any such wwer  by necessary lmpll-
         Aad, the erexise thereof would in a sense disturb
the cok3=plated operatloa of Artloles 7336 antl7345b.
         In our oplnloa the aontraoting attorney may not
bind the State to any auob agreements.

                                       Yours very truly
                                ATTOmlXY QENERAL OF TEXAS

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