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*1 I OFFICE OF THE AlTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN
QROVLR SLLLCRS Awon”r* QVNUN.
county Attarnel,
Titu8 County
Mt. Pleamant, Torta OplnfOn X0. O-7360
Dear Nr* 7anOel
Bet sbutdorn 0 newcrpsper to lnsta
Your request for an op
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*I hami'pour opinion the other opinion l(O* O-7 le aonfue- the iume lag (LO regarding
ed your opin
that oertain not be euoh aooiden t , oa a break as t la&al public
aam0 Contpan~ down entire- tall 8 new e cause enou@ ati be eli- to publioh logal noticea or 50 Ion a OLBO in whlob a fast ismae e opinion bi tbie department that your should bo anewered to the &feat that mob ehutdoua for one week, in order to install a ner preen, Would not render the paper ineligible thdreatter to publish local notloea under the law.
You have oormotly quoted our holdinn In Opinion that a break in publloatlm on l ooount ol aooident., lo. 0-7286, aamaltr, and the like, would not omstltute auob a 'break 80 to [*] i *2 ,. 580 nonorablo t. V. Vauoe - pago 0
ywndrr a paper InelIgible to l ooept leEa publloatione-
We tbfnk tho typo of caum ior the Sailtare to put out en imoue of a neuepaper mentioned by you la a oaaual ty,. Iebmter’o new International Dlotlonary thus definer tbe word 'cRRur3ty~I "1. Cbanoet aocidsaf$ omtinpmoy; al 80 that rhjch hapeenn without design , or’ without heina foraaeen; en roc~llent. Tblo 10 the sense of the word l camualtf fn which ve used It in our opinion. Certainly, tbe ne0eselty for dlo- oardlng a prom and installing a new one in a newspaper print- lnu oif’loe 2s not an act of dealt, but arimea from a ocntln- that 10. the ln8Uequre~ or uniltneer geng, of tbe proem $xeti- fylna ita roplaoeunent~ .Tbe lord goa,maalt~ le of broader l l&tiaanoe thu! the rord gaoaidentv; tbae a destruotlon of e press Erllgbt- nln# would not be an l coldent~ but It undoubtedly would 66 a oamual tf. Xoreover, If the press were blom up b7 an hoin- diary*m bomb, it would not be an aoc$bmt~ but would be a caaralty oi the flrat ran&* Our 1 anpage quoted by pm -- and oaeualty~ or the like , ma8 stem broaQer,ln vacolaentl lta scope than el tber or both or the word* l aocldent~ and l eamaltyo. It w uld lnolnde other delryr or interruptlone trm Jailer otus s ior 8 break in pub1 ication. s
Xoreoter. tbe rule We hare l nnounceff lm not lImIted to those accident and camualty attu8tionnr which create sn ab- solute neoeasfty but on the ocntrary, would for interruption, lnolode tboso rltuatione where the exl~enolea ot .tbe buslneam reyuired better tacilltlea an6 service, or laok of publication was dne to labor troubler, shortage of paperr and the or like, humanitarian ~onrideratlonm~ suob as obaeming the Cbrletnme and Wew Year’* holiday@, *fled tbe.order - .tlmo ott".'~~
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