Case Information
*1 OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF % XAS -2, 1945 am-
SRoVER SELLERS
ATTORNLI UrNanAL
Honorable D, 2'. WItherspoon
:Co+mty :Attor&y
i.:avsrlok County
I~aglu F'aas, Terem
3car sir:
“In the oountlg~~."hsvin~ ~1 populabigs,ot 2eas th$o twenty thousand (~C,CfOO)'inhttbitarsta aeoorriing to the laat grecad- ing Psderall Census,~ it .ehalJ lS~kew$,se be the, 'duty Of the C~mo~fssfonere~ Coust, by ifr order WPy nade and ‘efpered, df reoord at its fi~rat regular neitinglti Jenu~r$ or eeoh i *2 880 IIon. D. F. Witherspoon - pa&s 2
calandar year to dstermln@ wh tther'eounty of~$iotis ot such colulty (er01&llg oaunty iuni 'QCS, rbglltrars of.+lta1 statist&s and notarlss publio shall ba &xapensated for the Ziseal year on the basis o ' an ,annual salary or wbsther th6y #ball be oompsnsated on 8 le basir or rses ebmed by 1 thas in the parformanoe ot ths .r et?ibial dutle8, end it IOWA&~ alo#k'to ihwwrd .%o shall alao be the duty of ~tha.
the Comptroflsr 'a$ Qublio ksao uati or 'the &at6 or, Taru. on or befora ths 3ht w of E
said order of aald ComPisslona
The ls~allty oft osllastlng delinqusnt bax.fa*s :o*ar and above the maximum ,s&.ary Ls aaawerad by krtiale 7332, whom- in it prorldes in pa%, as followm:
"All tees pravldad for thb o$tioars hsreln shall be treated, am ree8 o? 0rrt80 and. aaooumtsd r0r a* sti@h, iad shall QOC reoiltr,nor eald We* in mid offioira retain moess of the maximum ,eompensatloa allowed said ortiasrs undsr the laws of this steter . . ."
It la our opinloil that the county Attornay must 0011a0t all fess authorized by law in delinquent tax oases aad when he is som- pensated on an annual salary bssls.he is rrqulrod by Seo. 5,.
krtiole 39126, to deposit suoh reea in the crfSooer*s Salary Fund. Khe?c the County *zttorney is oompe&satsd i)n a salary basis, the salary he r~otlreo is in lieu of a>h6r re0f6, comnlsalona or oompensatiol~l he would othsrwiae b&authorized to retain; Ths County Attorney could not legallj'k+~aln any of the fees mentioned eon cn atlsn f r his nsrrlces .If;L:'d:el n uent t 8fP P .&& ) the 8 ounty Attorney:a* 'ILO, $ersonaI&"Xin d %Wd foea, b4ti oiust oolleot said reed,,and. heposit thetn in ths orrlcerf3 zlalary Fund.
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