Court Opinion

ID: 4141016
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2017-02-18 03:05:51.838107+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:37:49.552572
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OFFICE          OF THE ATTORNEY    GENERAL        OF TEXAS
                                 AUSTIN

Honorable Re      tbonrath;.
                  A.

County Auaitor
Cooke Uouaty
Galnesrille,   Tsms

                                                      ee-a reoolred aad oare-
fully ooasidered by                                    quote fron your re-
gusat as followat
                                                     Offloe OS Cooke
                                                fees were plaoed to
     the oredit        o
                                              hould be Oredited to

                               ula not find .a statute         whloh def-
                                ~0p0r    ma     t0   r008ire    the areait

                      s have arison that appear to make
                   that some ohsage be made ia the msr
     of handling r8OdptS   iron these souroes, sad on this
     sOCWWi I desire an opinion as to whether BtfXIO&-
     rapher tees pad trial feea whsa aollooted should be
     Pl%d    to the oredlt or the General Fund or to the
     Qffloer SaLoqr Fund. should your opinion hold that
     these foes below to the Offioers Salary Fuad, thea
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Honorable RI A, L?oRZrath, Page 2

        should they be listed as ‘Trial’ fees, *Steaogra-
        phers’ foes, or as oftioial  fees of the Judge or
        Justloe of the Poaos in whose Court suoh fees
        origian to?
              0. . . . n

           It la oux opinion that trial i’ees oollooted under
Artlole     1074, Vernon’s
                        Annotated Texas Coda of Criminal Pro-
0t3awe, should be placed in the general runa of the oounty,
if not othamlse appropriated by the oomisslonere*      oourt,
See opinions No, O-3975 and O-3435 of this department, 0opies
of wbioh are asolosad.
              Article   2075, Vernon’s Annotated Texae Clvii   Stat-
utes,     provides:
               *The olerks or all oourte having offiolal   rs-
        porters shall tax as ooats in eaoh oivil oasa where
        ~JI answer is filed,  exoept suits to o0lls0t delln-
        quent taxes, a stanographerts fee ot three dollars,
        whioh shall be paid as other ooste in the oass
        and paid by said olark, when oolleotsd,     into the
        ;g;ral    runas or the oounty in ~vnhiohsaid 00~1%
              .”
          It is our opinion that stenographerfa fees under
-*tiole 2075, supra, when oolleoted by the olerk, should be
iaid by the 010rk Lnt0 the general funa of the oatnty ln
ahhh the oourt sits.
                                              Vary truly   yours

                                                     %A. J. Fanning
                                                          Assie tant