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*1 OFFICE OF THE&J!TORNEY GE~RAL PRICE DANIEL February 20, 1948 ATTORNEY GE?nmAI.
Hon. Wllliati .L. Xerr, President
Board of Regenta
Stat.e'~Teschera College
Mlbland, Texas op1nlou Ilo. v-509
Re: Transfer of fuuds from acilary apprdprlatlotie for 1948 ~Sr;tpmsr Sea- slon to balmy a ro- $ 7- prltitlonb ioF 1948 Long &salon. Dear Sir:
We Pefer to'your letter of recent date which stated in aubstcmoe a8 iollows:
y~I;sgiala++e in Acts 1947, 50th ;. H. B. 246; p. 662; agpTi&-' : bg. ted fi5ir86bo for eslatiles'for ul 08s. State'T&aehera Col.le e for the X947-48 8 long Beaalon, and $4~,%2.00 for salaries
for the 1948 auamer seatsion.
The Board of Regents approved salar- lea at this echo01 f* the long s~aslon amounting to $199,786.00;. thw'xiei?eaaita- tlng the augmentlug oi,the appropriated amount,
The Veteran8 AdxlnlstmrtloCha~ been lov in paying the amount due that se.hool and the others~under OUF jurlsdictlti)."" For thst~~reason;’ the ~Pr&ldent of, &al Row would like to t%nsfer $18,401.00 from the 8-r sohool approprl+lon into the long sescrlon~approprlatlon. For.the summer aetmlon, the salaries will be paid out of the renmlnlng funds in the summer appraprla- tlon, oat of looal'funds and tht'funds which may thexi be Wallable f%om the Veterana.Ad- minl.atratlon.
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Ron. Wllllam L. Kerr, page 2 (v-509)
Qtiestlon: l&y the transfer proposed above legally be made?
The appropriation made td Sul Rosa State Teaahere College by the 50th Legislature, provides:
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A wt 31, ,L 8 3~ Salaries Summer School
1.
:: &ilnt6nance,
equipment and 30,000,00 30,000.00
travel 4. Improvement+
and repairs 1OC.500.00 $d* OF TOTAL $33~337.06 The @&aeral Provisiona of t* 1947 iXpproprla- tiims .A&--Rdw&tldnal Instltutldzia,'at page 666; 1947 Sesalon Ltwa, read in part as follo%rs:
%ubse&lon (2). S&&y ~Pro~l~~oas. The rate of the salary paid an employee of any educational lnstitnt$~h qmed . . herein for services durQg ti;. stammer sas- : slon shall not exceed the salary rate, :~ paid the employee the came os? alml- lar aervlcesg in that ~ns~ltutlon during ,, the preceding longseesion.. ,.. "Full-time employeee.;on.tvelve (12) montha basis may recelve'not iwre thaa Five Hundred Dollare ($500) for aorreep6nL ,~ denoe cburse &l/or extension center teach- &&and m&y ziot'be paid addltlonel mone3 aumer school teaching &ml full-tire employees on a.nlne (9) ,mo&he bash IPS~ be w%d *or oorreanondenoe and/or extenslti ': Dollars -($500) per annum for oorrespondenw. ootuwe te&hln&-duriiig the ilscS1 year and/or ewlon oenter vork,durlng the reg months eesslon."'(Eiephasla ours. *3 .v w . .
Hon. William L. Kerr, page 3 (V-509)
For many years prior to the 1948-49 blenn&irn,
the Leglalature.haa ltedzed in particular the apeclflc salaries to be paid to each and Avery professor bnd ln- atructor on full time employment for the nine months long term; and to each and eiery admlnlatratlve, &al- long term purpoaea, the Legislature heia heretofore, as it now doe@ in the 1947 Act, provided an additional lump sum appropriation to care for the professora, ln- atructora and other persons employed to teach.or to per- form other services during the summer session, and who were not employed on a twelve ironths service baa&k. See H. B. 173~ Item 155, pi 740 dedgnat@ "Summer Sssa+bn, Resident teaching and admlnlstratlon ; Item.243, [‘*763; Item 86,~~. 766; Item 288, p* 776; ~Item 132, g0 7 1, Item 2X3& p. 786; Item 94, p. 790 designated SUmer-
4, pe 792; Item 74 p. 795; Itep PO, and Item 77, pe 600. ": ThCthlrd paragraph.of Subsection ~(2) in-the General Provlalons of H, ~B. 173, Acts 1945, which pM- vision appears aubatantlally reenacted in Stiae$tloti ~(2) In B. B. 246, Acts 1247, above quoted, anthorl,sda-the use of the lump aum Summer ~School" approprlkitlo~k far salary payments to full time employees oti a nine months basis and to other peraoxia not employed on a twelve iaonths basis for teaching Summer So&o1 or for other services performed during the remslnlng three months the fiscal year, the sumpr months or abort session.
The 50th Leglslatnce in Hi ?a 246 has depart- ed from the practice of ltemlelng salaryispproprl~atidns for the long beaalon ~of the State Colleges. In its bien- nial approprlbtltin the flacal year's 1947-48,and 1948- 49 it has made;' first, a lump sum apptioprlation ltemlzed as "1. Salaries* in the w College approptilatlons and in addition thereto~a lump sti~appropriatlon'ltemized aa "2. Summer School'. The Leglslattu-e having continued to approprlate~a lump sum under item~deslgnated "2. Sum- mer School", we believe It was its Intention when it apr proprlated a lump sum under item designated "1. Salaries" ,. that this latter appropriation was to cover all the Sal-.
arles for the long session and twelve montha employees which heretofore we're provided for by the l$emleed aal- ary method.
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Hon. William L. Kerr, Page 4 (V-509) .
The item designated as "1. Salaries" in the Sul Ross appropxletlon constituting a specific approprl- atlon to be used for the payment of salaries to persona employed for the long.sessloh of the College and others employed on a twelve months basis, It may be used only for the a&eclflc purposes $ppro$rlated. 'Ehe It&u de*&- nated as 2. Summer School constituting a apeclflc,ap- proprlatlon to be used for salary payments to full time employees on a nine months basis or other persons not employed on a twelve months basis for teaching Summer School or for other services, performed during the re- maining three months of the fiscal year, the summer months, It follows that the same or any portion there- of may not be tranafePred therefrom to be expended for long session salary payments. It is elementary, of course, that,an appropriation may be used only for the purpose eIpreaaed therein or necessarily lmplled there- from.
We have considered also the thlra paragraph
in Subsection (2) of the General Provisions tif ,H.~B.
246, 50th Legislature, and advise that such provision does not authorlie the proposed trtuxafer of funds from the Summer SchOol appropriation td the long teriq apjws- prlatlon, the aame purporting to authorlae tr*ferti of only those Items or parts of items wlth+n the totals e&oh of the speolfla approprlatl~~.
SIRmARY ' : The Board of Regents of the State Teachers Colleges is not iuthorlaed lib tranafbr ar use funds Xpptioprlated for Sul Ross State Teaoherti Cdl16 e~under item dealgnateil "2. 3-r -30 % " 001" in H. B. 246, Aota 1947;'for the paymeiit of tialiarlea of long session employees who abe provide9 for in ap#$oprliktion lteti designated 1. Salrrles in aald Bill. Yours very truly, ATTORREfGEBEIuLI,OF TEIAS APPROVED: ?iir&
FI T A33ISTAKC AT&RREX fflWER& Bs Cheater E. Olllaon 0Ro:vb:mv
Assistant