Case Information
*1 TBEATJTORNEYGENERAL
OFTEXAS
Xoaoreblo Arnold IF. ~mnklla
county Attarnb~
Your letter of
loa rrcm this department
mt0r $6 @(I r0u0w88
rZ not,does the oount hmoarl tto 8pytn bxobmt or tuelm atr ritor t; &ul.
P _* “If not, how f~ the oouty to 1.~~ # ralld ,, i, tax lwy?
PJO rppr~oi8tb your Quzultr kia# h ub 1.n l 8Ooapa ay- lng the reqtmrt with 8 well-prepsM4 mumuy of tha pertl- nbnt Coaatltatloa, statutbti *a4 au8b,0riU08r
In oam of (t tromoy in t&m Qouut ~amlmleaom* Court, the Cbunty tuQ@ ia outhor%sOd tQ ma I;, 8a l vpolatmat to ii11 mob memoy. Rev. CTlv. f?tato.,Art. RJU. F : The Oouty Judge la not authorlxed to doalan l
vacaaay for any O~WO, but. upon rbaiw th8t then ui6ta suoh voaanoy. he ia outhorited to make the appointmat, aa provldod Ia,the Artio1e laaat obov. e1t.d.
Artlok 2356 or the Dsrleed Civil %ntuteo deolerwa: Wo aofgity tex eh811 be latIe4 l xoopt et 8 regular texm or the oourt, @ml when all ambars Of &aid OOtUt a@ ~bSOllt.w .
Thla In a valid leglalntira on&z&t, and a oo&y tax lev%& l tm ytim, or by anytribunel exoeptate wgularternof the oourt, en4 ahen all menbero of se14 oourt era prawi~;lo bV6lid. l'rss 1. %xUbarough, ahurlff, 8 :::. %:. @O; Wooaks t. State, W fL 1:. (2) 714, (3.2). r'udgo twiza If t&s County .&hat there.bxists astortrim
ti raaanoy in the Conulssiaoers 'Court,hewuuldbemtIroly uithln hia #ouuE to mku an iIlBmcuate l ppoltltocrnt thorbto, l oboptlng a3d qwlifylng for auth end upon the eppointte’n pocltlcm, the soto of the appointee aa ComIaslomr would be ' ralULd emu thou@ It should aWtrtmrd be det6rnlned jtiiolst ly that no vaoancy had In truth existed. In other uords, tlm new eppointao wwld at load be a di Sacto orfioer, uboee of- fIoIa1 sots would be telld, 'Xx port8 r;, 831; Wyeo, I& I?. bbrtla t. Gntnrltleu Ind. f%hool Met., 266 C-. 7;. 607, writ refus&~ Blowbtt 7. Riohardson Ifid. f?&ool M0t., 240 2. C. 529; Cole 7. Pofto, 155 s. s. 350..
In thlr. mamr l&e detbeole of tho impotewg of the
county to monlco the emuel levy uould be aotdad.
Gf oourse, iit, swh 6etemInetlon by ths judga, and th0 eppolqtmat end quauri0au0n 0r a suo04mor, no rurthar. aaapamation oould be pe$d to the former oom&naloaar. .
You ue torther advleed that t&are 16 ni Sor the eppointuent
authority of 8 deputy acu&soloa- l r by any one in any event.
Crustfry, that the. above fully l muwa your in-
quiriet, wa are
Very tily your8 , A’PXSWR G?!WRAL OF SX&? ‘ - .
