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AUSTIN, T. E AS 78711
CORAWFORD C. fIARTIN
ATTORNEY CNERAL
May 8, 1967
Honorable F. B. coyd, Jr. Opinion No. M-69
District Attorney
79th Judicial District Re: Whether Starr County can
P. O. Box 965 legally pay for telephone
Alice, Texas 78332 services used by the U. S.
Tick Inspector, who is
Dear Mr. Floyd: stationed in Starr County.
Your letter of April 14, 1967, requesting the opinion
of this office on the above-stated question, reads, in part, as
follows:
"Starr County, Texas owns and provides cattle
dipping vats for tick eradication in the County.
The United States Government has stationed a tick
inspector there in the County. In the past the
County has furnished and paid for telephone serv-
ice for the federal tick inspector. An objection
has been made to the payment of the bills for the
telephone service by the County.
"Please return a formal opinion as to whether
or not Starr County, Texas can legally pay for
telephone services used by the U. S. Tick Inspector
stationed in Starr County, Texas."
Title 17, (Articles 1525a, 1525b, 1525c, 1525d, 1525e,
1525f and 1525g), Vernon's Penal Code, pertains to the eradication,
treatment, etc., of contagious, infectious and communicable dis-
eases of livestock, domestic animals and domestic fowls in this
State. The above-mentioned statutes authorize the Texas Animal
Health Commission and the commissioners' courts of the various
counties to perform certain duties as are imposed upon them by
such statutes and further impowers the commissioners' courts to
expend county funds for the various purposes therein enumerated.
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Texas. Attorney-General's Office. Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-69, text, May 8, 1967; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth269288/m1/1/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.