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*1 OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS AUSTIN

Honorable M~urphy Co3.e

Your resent requ Ion OS thls'd0pcrt- ment upon the above stated 013 ro00ited.

o the &ate law afirot- u30.00. At the OS oltlzene point- writer) that the OS Liberty County bs barn& on $140.00 per shall miillfon dollam valuation fneteaa OS $lSB.OO OQ

the million Qollcre valuation cd provided by the

present general law, hrtlcle ld45.

"?&ll you please give me a statement co to the prinolpal requirementa of such notice be

Eonoreble Murphy Cole, Pago 2

publiahad. I gather that Sao. 57 OS Artlole

3 Is the proper oonatltutlonal authority.*

Saotion 57 or article 3 or the Stats Oonatltution and Articles 2 - 9, lncluslva, Vernon's Annotated Civil gtat-

utea, prescriba the mathod and manner of giving notice by

any person who intends apply for the passage OS any looal

or speoial law not prohibited by the Constitution. Article

1645, Vamon*s Annotated Civil Statutea, rsada in part aa Sol-

lows:

Win any county having a population 0S thousand Inhabitants, or over, thirty-five according to the prsceding Federal oenaua,

or having a tax valuation of rifteen mil-

lion dollars or over, acoording to the lest

approved tax rolla, there shall ba biannlal-

ly appointed an auditor of aoaounta and

financaa, tha title of said offioar to be oounty auaitor, who shall hold his 0rrioe

for two yearn, and who shall receive as oom-

pensation for hia service8 one hundred and

twenty-tfva dollars for aaoh million dollars

or major portion thereof, of the aaeaseed

valuation, the annual aelary to be o-put&

from tha last apprwed tax rolla, aaid an-

nual salary from oounty fun&a ahall not ax-

oaed thirty-mix hundred dollars, to be paid

monthly out OS the general funda of the

oounty up: :n"order of the commlae'lonera

court. .

Liberty County has a population OS 24,656 inhabitants ,acoordlng to the lest Federal oansue. Howaver, the aeaeaaed

valuation oS said county eccording to tha lest approvad tax

rolls ia approxlmetely $21,523,020.00, ThQrafore, Artlola 1645, aupra, which la a general statute, la epplioable to Liberty Goun- tY*

Section 56, Article 3, or the State Cooatltution inhibfta tha Lsgialature from paaeing any looal or apeolel Law

ra$ulating the asrefra of a oounty.

The propoead enaotment would be a looal or epaofel law attampting to regulate the affalrr of Liberty County, whloh is prohibita by Saotion 56, Article 3, of the Stats Caaatitu- Duoloa, et al v. Earria

tion. County, 263 S. W. 5623 Altgelt *3 pag, 3

Honorable Murphy cole,

t. Gutzeit, 201 9. v. 4001 Auetln From. v. Patton, 888 3. W.

18;e. that the foregoing fully

Truatlng MIfWSra your in- quiry, wso are Your0 very truly

APPROVED JAN 30, ATTORNEY GElVIRAL OF TEXA8 ATTORNEY GENERAL

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