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OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN QlllLD Id*** ?obruarr 16. lVS9 . ..WD .-L
e thsraaftet, -Collsotora of Taxov of muoh 1 be ontltlsd to roarire the e earnad by their offloer in th ths prorl~lonm of the Maxi- mum Ice Billi prorldmd, hater, that In moh oountler the marl8tm anount ieer rhloh may ba retalnd br much otfioer, ln- 8lUbiU~ all soe*s raw, &all ti four Thourand Dollarm (#C,OOO), prorldrd moh offlow arn8 raifloient iaer to pay this amolmt.
'seotlon 8. Saoh Assesror-Colleotor 0f taer eating ram in 0xoem3 Four Thouland *2 un. y300) &all B&o alrporttlozl
Dollarm of ruoh l .~)a ln l oordmoo rith thr % prorlslonr of Mnlmm PO* Bill. All Aaaormorm-Oolleotorr in oountlw honby fro0t.d Ihall k l ntit1.a to drput1.r and l ~rlstant~ In the nnnu l utho rlrd In Hukrn Too Bill." Art.1010 SVOl-1 supra, by Itr tona rmldem
that In all rount1.r ha& population of not P .a# than lS,SSO uld not 8o ra thul M&40, l o o o rdIng to th e rort no ont l rdlablr Podoral owwm ana woh arallablo ?o& mal oomua thondtu, the ammomoor-oollootor of tuna in moh oountlor ml robin . rxlmum of #4,000.00 If the off100 arm wfflolont ioos to paP amount. The population of Loo Oounty 1s lS,bVO, thus falling rithla tho tuma of thlr artlola. Lao County lr the mly.otity In the 8tdo rhloh, aooorblng to the la& ~cI;,'~ Ima . population rithln the lImlt# ~oolflab In .
8ootIon W, Art1010 S'of the IRate Oonrtitutlon provide, in put, w iollornr wl. kgIrlaturo &all not, exoopt s
OthorriW pIW%dOd in thI# OOn~tIttItlOn, paw any looal or #poolal lawa, uthorlrlag . . ..ragti&Ing thr affalrr ot oouatlea, oltlem, towus, warda or rohool dla$.rIot8;....and la all other O~IOI whew a ganoral law oan be made pplloablo, no load or #peolnl law rhall be maotod; prorldad, that aothlng herel~ oontalnd #hall ba oomtruod to prohlblt the kglrlaturo from pawing I aold lam for the prownation 8~. aa.3 i f l h or this Stat0 In oortaln loo~lItIor.w r/ In the oaao, Orar vn. Taylor 887 U. 8. 61, the
Suprue Court of the Waltad St&o6 de&d a looal 1~ as: Vho phraro Qooal law' mema prImwily, at lead, a law 'In faot If not in forp, Is bIr*otod only to a .p*oifio #pot.* The ran, ,fXty of Fort Worth ~a. Bobbltt, 56 SW (2nd) 470, holam among other things, that:
*An aot pplloablo to ootitlea harlng *3 non. 1. F. Klopa, Fobmary 16. 19SV. hilo S l population of irom 85,190 to 28,wx) ww
l rwlw and 8poola1, *Itlag ifixaon 78. Ru8011, 54 Ohio 8tata 490. Own Oonntf Oom- ml~8108or~ v*. @u&r, iS9 td. 575. and that an sot l athorlslng bonds by l ltIo# har- lng ktwwa 106,000 ad llO,OOO Inhabltutm by 1980 eumnm king pplloablo oal# to one lt7 ho14 looal law within oonmtltutloaal proo+is1oa.= Oonatltutlor, Arttole S, 8&tIon hold@ in l rfwt, ‘U (&IA) 867, that: t l l, Qounty VI. T ynn, l kur SW ww, [91] Wourtr In dotumlnlng whothu lmw 18 pnbllo, @noral, poolal or looal will look to Itm mbrtuteo aad preotlod opentlom rather than to lt8 title form, phnwo&ogr dnoo othqrwl#o prohibition ad fun4mitd laf agalnmt *poolal loglelatlon rould k mgatory. The ~1slaturo Day olas8lfy oouutls~ on baala of popul~tloll for pImpoH or'tlxlng oomponmtlon county anb preolnot ofiloerr but olaanlfloatlon mat k kaod on real dl8tlnotlon and met not be arbltrar- Ily dorlmd to glre what in, in mbstmos, l loeal or spoolal law the form of gonenl law. Aota reducing nalarlaa or orfloum ln ooun- ties of L90.000 ud lama than 310,000 populatlm held Pnbeasonable and ubltruy in lta olurl- flo~tloa and void as rmolal law.. We balleva that whether the mot in quotiloa I#
to k regarded as peolal and whether lta operation la unliorm throughout the Btata bpendr upon whether popula- tlon &ford8 fair ba#la for the laamlfloatlon of noun- tlem with reforenos to uttua to whloh It rolatr8 and whather the result it ooapllmhoa la In hot l real l8r8lfloatlon upon that bamlm and not a domlgnatlon of minglo oount$ to whloh alone It shall apply undu the &so oi uoh.ilas~lfloatloa. Tha law ln quwtlon we w drawn t&t lt lm general lx ion but only ppllod at tlu tlm it wept into l'fbot to-Em Oounty and probably ooul4 nuu apply to enothor oouat;l. k think that a *4 IIon. 1. F. flepr, Pobruuy 16, 1959, Page 4 oouaty an ba AaslgnateA by Aworlptlon just l &for- tlrely s It oan b. Mud a&d that the appllcatlon of thlm act I# 10 lmflaxlbly fixed as to prbtent it vu : be& ppllomble to other eouxtls8. d Artlclm SBBS prorldem ln pmaral, that otm-
tlos outalnlng 85,000 or 108a kabltanta that the few to ba mtnlned by the tax ~s~s~or-oollootor, tax smomm- or tax ollwtor hall k &3,400.00 xoopt m other- in thl8 aot. wlw proridod Iu ilew of the foregolug authorltlos, you ub
rospootfally l drlwd thnt lt Ia the oplelon of thlm Do- putrent Artlola SVOl-1 lo . qoo1.1 la a114, thwe- for., la 8noomtltutlom1 and told and that s~o~mr- rolleotor of tnxw for Lee ty mmld not be olltltl~b to ntaln . mnxlmw Oc .a hi‘ fe.8 of otiloo for the y&r of 1958 but that the uount few to be rotslned by muoh oiffwr would be gwernod by the gonon fee law~of thlr Stats.
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