Case Information
*1 Honorable Tom P. Coleman, Jr.
the purabse or male of 8nythbg~farc%om uroount or mtaah oouw, oity or WE, OT T&CJ S&U amet ropr or noelve w mmy or m, or the re~se~tative or either, ar a8y emlumh ar advantage vhatmaever In aonmib6lrtiea of mob hid. : .
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ProRomal, mmtrwt, purchase fined not lesa than rlrty MIC Y)- tin tiw h&M or uh, b ah8U k dollars. "
The above mtatute vam oonatm in mucbJ T. State, by the court 0r Appeals, 10 S. If. 761, &j rhlah it na dealared that manlremtly, the LO~IS~~- in orating thm statute, intended themby to proteat CW&IW, atiu aad tarnm from 0rri0ial p0atitim. ~hbthbr l dm8iw i8 %wniarll~ Ilnterested' am that tam lm wd in tko statute, lm smmanll~ a qussti0n 0r r80t. ti -loud in JW r8- qwmt, the buml~emm im ow&ad and o-t& by tb oodsmh%ter~a brother and it dow not appear tbt ti aadui- IS p$ooaoarXl? lntawemted in avglng ruch pumhasu u 8@nt or the
. . We held in auf opinion lo. 0463 radued to mu
en the date or July 6, 1939, that ti am-t &W k&y vork between the board of mmqpra or tb~ somty mt8.l aad the laundry, one or the WXHUW or thy w or vhleh tr a @ator and ineplber or the board, im oontruy to pb.Uc m and void. We are unmble to bring tIm contwata ad Forabuem made aa thated In your holdig requbt vitbin tb of tkl8 opinion and the rule announaed in 10 Tusm Jwlme, m- graph 81.1 am ulted by you in your let-, am ve thioL tiw 011108 supporting suoh rule are olewly to be bis~-
It ir thersrore thm opid~n 0r uam depu+ant aat it Im not illegal ror a aounty awmioau to OIpobru -- genay l uppllem r0r OOnStruatlOn aad rmpai.r of oauntf rc-ds u an agent or the oounty undo? waioray or the ooort lrar l brother vbo own8 and operator a bumlnmsm, vhor9 the d*loner 18 not peounl8rlly lnteremted in the aontmat.
APPROVEDDEC 3, 1940
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