No. V-0024 (1947).

• Case Date: January 31, 1947
• Court: Texas

Texas Attorney General Opinions 1947. No. V-0024 (1947). 1January 31, 1947Honorable Roy Loventhal, ChairmanLivestock Sanitary Commission of TexasLufkin, TexasOpinion No. V-24Re: Whether or not the Secretary of the Livestook Sanitary Commission of the State may lawfully be paid the full salary provided for that position by the appropriation bill, when she is devoting a portion of her time to other duties under private employment by a private firm.Dear Mr. Loventhal:We beg to acknowledge receipt of your request for an opinion upon the above subject-matter, your letter being as follows:

"As Chairman of the Livestook Sanitary Commission of the State of Texas, I respectfully request your opinion on an administrative master that has been called to my attention with reference to the activities of the secretary of the Livestook Commission as to certain duties performed for the Commission and other activities.

"Briefly, the facts are as follows:

"The General Appropriation Bills, acts of the 40th Legislature, 1945, provides in the general appropriation for the operation of the Livestook Sanitary Commission of the State of Texas, that a secretary may be paid 1725 annually. Such secretary has been employed by the Commission and is drawing, at the present, a salary of 143.76 a month. This same employee has been serving as secretary for the Commission for a number of years and has faithfully and satisfactorily rendered to the Commission all of the services required of her.

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"However, a portion of her time is devoted to secretarial work for a law firm in which she maintains her office as secretary of the Live-stock Sanitary Commission.

"Under these facts, the question I desire to have answered is, whether or not such employee may receive the full salary provided by the Appropriation Bill when she is devoting a portion of her time to other duties for a private individual."

After the date of your above quoted request, you advised this department that the secretary to the Livestock Sanitary Commission was now employed by a law firm in Fort Worth, on a full-time basis, and has been working for the firm for a long period of years. That the secretary works for the Livestock Sanitary Commission only when she is required, and that her work is merely part-time. Whether the secretary mentioned in your added information is the same secretary first mentioned by you or another...