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Hon. Burton G. Hackney, page 4
intra-city mileage in performance of their duties. Article
6823a specifically authorizes reimbursement for this travel.
In answer to your question, you are therefore advised
that employees of the State Department of Public Welfare are
entitled to receive travel reimbursement in the emergency situations
described in your request when the place of departure and final
destination is the employee's home instead of their designated
official headquarters, which is the place properly designated from
which an employee may operate officially in the performance of his
contemplated duties. See Attorney General Opinions Nos. V-461
(1947), 0-3008 (1941) and S-21 (1953). This opinion is limited to
the facts outlined in your request and will not necessarily apply
to other factual situations, for the reason that normally an em-
ployee's home is neither a departure nor a destination point;
rather, normally a departure and destination point is the em-
ployee's official headquarters.
SUMMAR Y
Where an employee of the State Department of
Public Welfare engaged in protective services for
children is called from his home, either on
holidays or weekends or at night, when the em-
ployee's designated headquarters is closed, in
order that he make contacts with some of the
recipients who are confronted with an emergency
or to render protective service on behalf of an
abandoned or an abused child, such employee is
engaged in official travel and entitled to re-
imbursement for mileage fr his home and return.
rs very tru
AWFO D C. MARTIN
Attor y General of Texas
Prepared by John Reeves
Assistant Attorney General
APPROVED:
OPINION COMMITTEE-4258-
(M-873)
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Texas. Attorney-General's Office. Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-873, text, May 26, 1971; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth270101/m1/4/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.