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Eonarable li%r~y Enox, P8ge 5
.nrt&ol.e 679 providost
"!!'he'BQard Or cOntar shall pl-ap%X'e @iXl8 ror improvem8nt and r8p%lr% 8nb e:pb~ifiU8tiOWJ to pub110 tiulldlngs or property or the State, end
ehall superintend through it8 division of publio . _ building8 and ground8, the eonetruotlon or said
work .wh8n 8uOh tiparri8iOn.i~ not oth8Iwi88 BB- peeoially pr+dsd for by lay.*
Artiole 671 of the R8vi88d Statutes provldeer The Board of Control shall fnspeot all pl%ns and spooitioatione tot the yublio buildings end the.%dditions thereto .to be eonotruotgd.for the L i&ate before suoh pl%ns end speoifioatlons %re adopted. The Board m%y,rejcot.any and .a11 zuoh plans: and apeoifioation~~~ and it shall have full and final.euperlnte~eno~~~over %ll buildiiigs, atruotures or sdilitions thexeto that may be ocm- etl?l&ed for the State.*' ,:1'
Ar?Aolss 672~ and prqvide for then inqeotloir and ex%mln%tibn and upkeep or all state building6 by the . Board of Control.
Artiolo 68i of the Revised Statutes provide81 Vho Board -or Control, through the ohier or auoh diYi8IOn, &%ll deei@ 8l.l publio~bulldings e~r8oted at the expense or.the state wh8re~.designF.
Ing is not. otherwise provided for by law or by the trapropriation bIll,.but in no inetanoe shall plan% Or dO8l@l8 be edopted by the heed of any d8pertm8nt, board, institution, sohool or prison eystcsmof the state unless auoh designend plans ~heve been approved by the Board.'
Upon % oasusl reading or the above etatutes rela- tive to the various sohoole of Tex%e.and the power of the boards of tri~&eee of eeid institution8 to let the OC&r8Ot8 ior end supervise the oonstruction of' building8 and perm%nent Improveme:nts and the %rtiol+3 giving the Board of Control eupervisfon and oontrol or the oonetruotion or publio build- ings there arppeara to be acme oonfliote.
Honorable Harry Knox, Page 6
The not 0r the Legislature In 1919 oreating aa Board of Conlirol apparently had. as its objeotive the pl,a+- ing under one board the power and the authority to pureha.@ eupplles ro-r fill state lnetltutions when same are to bm *id for out.of the'ganaral raveme& In dealing with publIe buildings ft was evidently the purpose or the Lagislatlm to plaoe under the oonbrel and @are of the Board of Goad the building6 'for. all pub110 iuatitutions, whioh iastltm- tlons ware in turn to- ba oontrOlled by said board, such as the asylums and Institutes for the blind.
Shoe the aot ot 1919 wa6 passed creating tha Board of Control moat of the abova statutes giving the Board or Direotors or the various e.ohoola power and aanti or the'erckdtlon ofpe~anent buildings aadthi, purohau od land and &ring said instltutlons~the right of aminent le main have 'bean passed.
We acre Informad that It-haa uev6r been the easta or the Board or Control to prepare plans and designs or ta in any way oouttiol the~.kfsd or oharaoter of pemauent Wd- inga emoted by any of the Stats aohoole, this having beu lert entiraly,to the Board of Dlreotore or eaoh or mid saWaL* and oollegss: The Legislature has oontinued to Hake apw .prlationa ror permanent buiXdlnga at the various collegea ud
aohools presumably tith the kuowledge or the faot that tba Direotora of the sohools have been expending the money iada- .pendant of the Board of Control. #Ihile.thls oonstruotlan 1s
not oontrolllng, it is highly persuasive.
If the Board oi Txustess d the State's higba educational institution8 cannot let a oontraot for the ame?
tion of a building for u%ioh an appropriation has been xade by the Legislature until and unleee the plans and deniy therefor have been approved and adopted by the Board of Control there is no way for said buildings to be ocmstruatad If aald Boards oannot agree upon the plan8 and dealgn.
The raot that the Leginlature has for the paat years made appropriation8 r0r the.sreotion and omstroetioa of buildinga at these various,uuiverslties and colleges XaH- ing that same would be expended and the buildings areated upon plans and deaigua and speoliioatlons drawn and pre& by the respeotiva Boards of Truetees of the particular lx- stitution ror whioh the appropriation was made; and far8
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that the Board of Oontxol aa'well aa the Board or Trusteea of thene vrrlous institutlem hate 80 oonstrued eala etatute and appropriation bill during all of theee yeara are aa we have ~abwe atated,Mghly pelrsqulve althoui#i it Is not abso- lutely eontrolling.
It lr or oourse the zple that oourts~ wlll ia ocm- strutng.8tattzSen prodrve all Etatutea, ae paseed by the LegI@- lature rathem tbx~bertroy ftaw and will when paeslble reoon- olle apparen~ly,oon?liotlng statute8 60 that both or all or mme niay be preserved.
It ie ilieretore o&r op%nlon that the Stati Board or Control 18 not nqulred torpprwe the plans and deelgns aad let oontraota-~fox theoonrtruotlon of buildings or other m&r ~iapmvemnts at'ths Stabe'b higher eduoatlonal inetltu- tfonr . s ~iAreqon&~~Uty reSb tipon the rsepso~tlve Boards ot rb&mtc~ or maid lnstlt~tions.
Yours very truly