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Hon. Joe Resweber, page 2
The county tax assessor is a public official, elected
under the authority of the Texas Constitution, Article VIII,
Sections 14 and 16, by the people of his county. He is authorized
to collect fees for and to issue vehicle license receipts under
Articles 6675a-2, et seq., Vernon's Civil Statutes. Each copy
of a vehicle license receipt he makes is "a written memorial
made by a public official authorized by law to perform that
function .
Harris County, like many counties crowded for space,
has most of its public records on microfilm. Article 6574b,
Vernon's Civil Statutes, provides for the photographic duplica-
tion of public records and the destruction of the records. Section
4 of Article 6S74b reads:
"Sec. 4. Said photographic duplicates of all
public records shall be placed in conveniently acces-
sible files and provisions shall be made for pre-
serving safekeeping, using, examining, exhibiting,
projecting and enlarging the same whenever requested
during regular office hours. Whenever photographic
duplicates of public records are so made, certified
and placed, the original public records may be, by
order of the Commissioners Court of the county, or
of the governing body of any political subdivision
of Texas, destroyed or otherwise disposed of, pro-
vided, however, that no original record shall be
destroyed or otherwise disposed of unless or until
the time for filing legal proceedings based on any
such record shall have elapsed, and, in no event,
shall any original public record be destroyed or
otherwise disposed of until said public record is
at least five (5) years old; and provided further,
that notice of such proposed destruction or dis-
position of original public records are, in his
opinion, needed for the Texas State Library, they
shall be transferred thereto in the manner provided
in Article 5439, Revised Civil Statutes, 1925."
Attorney General's Opinion WW-793 (1960) has interpreted
Section 4 as follows:
"It is therefore the opinion of this De-
partment that the provision in Article 6574b
that no original records may be destroyed until
the 'time for filing legal proceedings based on-6072-
(M-1240)
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Texas. Attorney-General's Office. Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-1240, text, October 19, 1972; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth270470/m1/2/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.