*1 OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS Hon. Tom A. Crarpn

YoLennul CountJ Auditor

boo, Texas'

D6ar art

~plnfon 110.0-756 OS your letter hy 4, 1939 Opinion olarify- r+ Your letter b It hem bean

their offloss for the oount the interprotstion of the D 8triot Attorney 1'

M,';f"J"nnnn County that A.rtiole SIolCe, Seo-

, provided Sor the diBoontlnuano6 or paymant o? all feeu xoept those *2 Bon. Toi A. Craven, &Y 87, lSS9, Pam 8

l utho rlred amder law to be paid or allow- ed thm offloa of A8nnor & Dollmotor of Zus8.

-Already thl8 offloe ha8 beon ap- proaohed on a plying tha rule 8ot out in your aplnlon 80 -259 to iear other thaa the one8 owered in that oplnlon. Xhder thr in 8y8ton In l ffaot prior to Jsnuary 1, 1956, mnnerons fee8 wore paid various oounty orfl- ofal by oounty 8errloe8 rendered county by thome ounty Offlolal8. A8 lndloatad abwo, rinoe January 1, 1996, th18 ha8 operated umder the theory that ;hg rwlrlon8 of Art. 6918e, &otlon S, ren- the Art18108 tha law autharlzlng ei tha peyneat or 8UOh roe8 the oounty to ounty offloes void, with the xoeptlon noted ln Artlolo 39188, Seotlon 5.

-our eplnlon olarlfylng th18 8ltuatlon to u8 wlU be greatly ppreolated.w

Opinion lo. 0459 of thir departamnt parnd won the tollowlng two proporltlons:

*In a oounty operating on salary ha18 Is the oountJ alark antitled to fee8 00. lunaoy easea, ruoh fee to be remitted Offleer' Salary’?uad oi the aounty? 9~ oounty 0 eratlng on a 8mlary basis 18 oounty o P ark entitled to fee8 f&W noordlng oount ln8tru8ent8, 8ooh foe8 to remltted to 8 ffloer'r 8alary Fund of the oounty?"

Opinion lo. 0439 held that lunaoy prooeod- lags wem of a oltll and not orfmlnal aetum; a lunaoy prooeedlng wa8 a olrll proeeedlng. The oplnlon further hold that If the defendant In lunaoy ha8 no e8- tab then the aounty olerk 8hould ah&rge the aounty a

c Ron. To. A. Oroven, Roy 59, 1959, Pi&b 5 fee for nrvleeo under Artlolo bUB1, Petloed Civil Statutes Of Tox.88, a8 the 88m fa a olrll oaoe, and that he 8hould be pold b7 th e l 8uoh senloes out of thq geae8al fund of the county, and that when ouoh olerk reaolreo l uoh payment out of the mneral fund It lo the duty of the olerk to place ouoh payment he re- eelreo from the general fund Into the OffIoer'8 Salary Fund of oounty. In snowor to the oeoond quootlon, Opinion lo. O-559 hold )het the oounty olerk wa6 not ontltled to charge the county noording fees for raoord- lng rlcht-of-way deed6 for the county beoauee there war no l athorlty whloh authorized the oounty olerk to oharge the county fo r l uoh enloe8.

50 a0l08e herewith copy Of oplnlon RO. O-807 of thlo rtment. rhloh wao rendered Hay 19, lOJO, whloh de we think w 11 as uppon~all the queetfons raised ln your latter. hi8 opinion 8ppolfloally pa8000 upon lp p"

great number or Seen of oounty offlolalo. Thlo opinion by8 down the fOl..lWing rule, whloh 1). think 01UiffeS your ltuatlon, to-wit:

cllou are re8peOtftiiy