Publio Safety pay the traveling priated to that departzmat, of 0en sent to Illlnola to roturn this non’s Annolxtod Civil Statutes, hereby oreeted a De?artmnt OS Publio Safsty of the Utate of Taxas, hereinaSter designated 08 ‘the Depart;aent,~ in whioh is vested the enforoemnt of the laws pcoteotin3 the public! safety and providing for the prevention and deteotion of orlas. . . .” *2 Er. George H. ShopQard, page B

Artfole 4413 (4) of aafd statute8 reada a6 followe; - “(1) mo Co.3Aasion shall rornulate plane and ~01IoIes for tha eniorOa!zent of the orlminal laws and of the trnffio ahd safety laws OS the State, tha Dre- ventioz oi or5.m, the detedtloa n?lB ap:>rehenslon or violators of the laws, and for tke eduoation OS the oltle?ns of the State In the Dromtloa or publlo safety and law obaervanoe.

" . . . Smite Bill Ho. 427, 40th Legislature, Regular SewIon, page 197, BEZIM beiry the departnantal appropriation bill, reveala that the La&slatura -de an appropriation to the Departient of Rub110 Safety ior travel and tramportation

Said Senate Rlll, at pages 220-229, ln efl'sot ne~bore OS the various state depart&ants, &a ~%%?i‘tIlat enumroted therein, may travel out of the State on State buekess ?urQosoe a.ti shall reoeive thelr.travelIng axpenaes therein lnourrod. In Opinion No. X-640, the Attorney oBneral*a Department advised the Dsprt&ent of Publio Safety and the Comptroller of Publio Aocounts that the trip in question wan ior State buainclss purpoBe8.

It Is olsarly the duty OS the Department or ?uIjllo. %fetp to enforoe the oriainal lawn ?.nd to deteot and oppre- Send violators of the law. The Legislature has provided that department with an apprcprlatloa nlth Wzloh to pny travelin;J expenses incurred in conmotion with We ~orformnOe of these duties.

\Te oonclude, thereiore, that the Department of Pub110 Sarety 1s authorized to expend,lts funds to pay the traveling expenses 3f.a Texas Ranger lnourred In tha aforamentlonod trip.

Yours very trUl7