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.OFFICEOFTHEAATTORNEY GENERALOFTEXAS AUSTIN - =""=e
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Honorable Beu J. Dean
District *V,toriley
'BreckenriQe, Texas POW? T8qUoSt for
car8ftil.y corisl~ereil by this
-your request as fqlkysr 'aounty business', bnt it
I% shoulc? be &V8Ii a broad tio9 DO as not So aeffm th6 11 Tex. Jr. 535 [sec. 38). 165a,. chapter’ 337, n 5, idi&
1935, 44th Legislature, thare was ' conferred qon the Comissis,?erst Court of the
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Honorable Ben 3. Dkan~, 3?Sg;o 2
several. counties tho authority to provide for the construction of iqmwe3ei3ts on lafids lying within their cwnties in the nature of fam terraces, etc. .* Wider 3. B. l+94,'~Gcneral and Special La&s -.
of n3xa3, 1;7ts Legislature, 1941, psgo 604, thee Oomissionei-8' Court is given the poxw to red to wa-ocnOr3 road nachinexy for~the..comtruc- tion of terraoas, etc.., in cowtics of n po?ul.a- tioni%02 60,000 to 80,000; aaa unaer Article I.65 a-5, I{, S.,: this sam power is given in counties containi& 290,000 to 320,000; cna udqr hrticle -165 n-6, ii. S.,, th8 Saole po'%ir i3 i$v83I t0 the
C?omiSsio~ers~ Court of counties with a population * of 320,000 t0,,360.*000*~
-It thw a;ypears that the lcgielativs oon- ' &motion of th0 powers .of the Com.dSSionersl Coust is that the Gomissioners* Court does not have any pow&to grant or .bargcin the use of rod machinery for any private ppurpo~ss, but the saEe CBIL be used.
only in the maintemnce and otinstruction of public roaas.
UDuring the war emrgency, in the construction of airports.and OthGX public faoilities, request bas been.xmdo by contractors of the County Conzi.s- sioners' Court for the use of rood nacM.nery be- lon&ng to the comty u.Mer contract providing for aaoquate~ooqensation for Such use.'
"It nay be aSsumd, at leaot for the periOd of the emergency, that road mchir,erg now on hana me6 lant the oountios until the onergcnoy io~over end thct if the sme is worn out on.othor projects other than the county road syoton that tho county my be left vrithout anymchincry with whioh to work the roads.
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IIonorable Bon J. Dean, Page 3
KC shotad. like to .ask you the following qu0nti0&3: n(a) Do83 tho County Comissione~s~ Couxt
: have the powor to nake a rental. contract with a private contraotor engagea in govomiient work for thho use of road mchinery on' suoh %orH
'I(b) iloss the Coimissioners~ Court have the power to mko a contract with a private oontracto:: for the use of its road naohinery to be shippea out OF t50~Stat.e of Texas ana usea in comtwction wo'rk?l~
Unaer the aut3orities oitoa in O@ions X0. 0-2034 ana o-3228 of this aepirt0m, copies of which arp enolosed herewith for your InSorm~ion we ansmr ., eqoh of your questions io .the negative, : Yo&s very' truly m. J. Pannin$ Assistant