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OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN
Honorable Luther C. Johnatan
c4uutJ Attorney
Andermoa County
Palestlna, Texa#
Dear flita
rrpuest for our
quate rrom your
t prrsaa m0vmr outwla oity', e mamo oolmt7, bQrore (Ilaotlon, e sntitlw¶ to rote without a iieriasd civil Natatea of Tmxas, pro- ~3~ory psreon who le oxempteb by law from eke paymant or a poll tax, and who ir in other rerpeotm a qwiri4a tm rrlu, rsrlds8 Voter, city of ten tliowaaa (10,000) lnhabitmntr or more, shall before Eha let g{ of~e~#?~ E;- tha yar when auoh vetor m,h
title6 te suoh newe.ion obtain fran the Rx *2 Nanerablo I&h@. C. John.t.n, P.S. 8 of the oeunty of hi. or her rwl-
Col&ator d.nob, a oartlflcata .houlng air or her OX- mpti0n rr0ra th. p8pi80nt or 8 poll tar.
"8UOh sxanpt pewaoa 8b.U on emth .t.t. hi8 mime, age, raae, county 0r rwidenea, w- the length or time ha ha8 .rwiaed oupatlon, in seld county, and ths length or time la the oitJr, and th. nimbsr or the ward or voting prwfaot in uhfah he rwl6e8, and rhall al.0 atate his e&root addrssr by same and number, and the greund8 upon whloh h. lr mabend, alalx8 exanptlon rrom the payment or a poll ta.
" . . . " The above Artiela ZiWiB rela tsr exeltislvely to those r88ldfag in a oik7 ot 10,000 lnhabitnnt8 o r mo re, and l xp ra~a- ly prQvide8 ad r84uire8 the obtalnfag of a oaxtlfleato of on or b.tor. th. 3i.t da7 of January the year .xtenptlon in rhloh thep oifiv te rote by ttiose~ exempted by law rroa the payment of the poll tax. Thenron, your ilr.t que.tleB 1. re48protfully anmrrea in the nes8tiv..
With r.r.rcrno. to your moond 4usrrtioa Arti.1. Z968a, Rs~ised CSvll St.tut.8 of Ton., -.pplio.bi. this.. realding la a olty or 1.88 than 10,OQQ lnbabimkt8, prevld.. p4rtr
~avsrg~jwmen not 8ub cot to t&r di8quall- in,Artlo 3 e ES54 of the Fie- fixations mbt oat rlesd Cfviil Bfatutea of roe5 who do.8 net re- al.. in a olty of tan thowiarrb iab.bltant8 or mom, aad who in orerupt rroa the payment~of .
poll txix by nm8on of the, faet that he or 8h8 hna not pst reached the we of twenty-one ~eari 0~. tha’firat say or January praoadlng it8 .leTJ, .,gxahc in exempt from the payment of a poll, tax beqeune he or she wee not 6 r.rfdsnt of ths Stets',on the firat day of January preoedl~ lw 3..vy, but who ahall have slnos bwome .li- p.lbl. to voO4 by rawson langti of resldw4s cl; age, shall, on or bef.on the thirty-rlrot day or Januarg of the par :n whioh he or ehe orrers to vote, bbteln rren th. k.*a:mr aa Collector or Tax.. fer th. Bwnty or hi8 m her maidenas 8 osrtiriwte oi rxemptfo~~ rrmi the pa7mnt Of a poll tax, and aa 8uah PermoB *O bus fails& rntuond obtain auoh eertl- *3 Hoaoreble &~ther 0. ~OhnStoB, P.g. s
riiae 0r oxwptiw frola the PaPneBt 0r e poll t.x .h.ll ba .ll.wed to vote.
It " . . . (Sse‘~the oases or Clark v. Stubbe, 131 8. E. (.A) i%S, and Rogers v. Yaith, ot al, ll9 S. vi. (2d) 678.)
we Fu0tO rrolp 0piti00 NO. o-2434 0r thi0 de~rt- m3at a8 r0iimr,r
Sprum en an8ly818 of this ertiole, .Jn- fsrrlng to Art1014 EQd6a) it aypeara tW$ the r4mwtrrg o&8888 or persona rxampt from the payrnsnt of 8 poll tax and ~midi~g elsmhere than in e olty of 10,000 lohabitants more must obtain au eXapti.om eertlficata onL or be- rote the 316 day or Jaauarp of the 'year in whfck th8p 0rrw to vote, in order to entitle
them to uaat their balloter (1) Tho8a who nil1 reach the age of t.W.Bty-@Be years, 8rtar tlw let 867 of Januer7 and bairn the day or a rollowln electlen at which they may wish to thou exempt from the payment rota1 (a 7 ~011 tar beemme not a resident of the stat& on the firrt da7 of Sanuary preoeding its 1.~7, but rho lnve 8inoo becotie eligible to vote by rwaoa or length ol r~esld8noe. . . .
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"'It 18 the iWthfBC OplihiOn Or thl8 dOpR&- sent that those curslept fmn tha pafzisent of a poll tax ror ~880~8 art out in Aft1019 8908a, Vernon*8 Annotated Civil 8tiatut4a,. and rsaldlng elsewhere than in . oity of 10,000 lnbabftant. or QOre must obtain ..o 8XClptiOB oertifiast. ou or bsfore the 31.t day of Jan- uary or the year 14 which they offer tJ wt., order to be entitled to Wet their ballot..? advised that the ans- TLereicre, you exe respecifully nor to your second queatioa I. h neggutlve one for the raaaoll. eet rorth in opinion Ho. O-8434, a aopy or ri:ioh 1. e~olo84d hamwlth. *4 the hrM,aabew rQSerre4 opiat- In diditioii
ion NO. o-2434, we are onoloslas herawith oopisa or opipionrr %OS. (j-2155, O-174& O-414 nnd O-4520 written cm relate4 pwirtiono. thtlt abac, satlefaatorlly
ri;e Muat amwor8 your insquiry.
DaDrao
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