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TEXAS ALMANAC.-1952-1953.
Article XVI.-(Continued.); Article XVII.
collected and provided that where any of-
ficer is compensated wholly on a fee basis
such fees may be retained by such officer
or paid into the treasury of the county as
the Commissioners Court may direct. All
notaries public, county surveyors and public
weighers shall continue to be conipensated
on a fee basis.
[Note.-The foregoing Sec. 61 of Art. XVI has
been twice amended, as follows: (1) To put all
district and county officials in counties of more
than 20,000 population on a salary basis, substi-
tuting for fee basis, and making it optional with
the Commissioners Courts whether precinct of-
ficers in counties of less than 20,000 should be on
salary or fee basis and optional with reference
to county officers in counties of less than 20,000
Submitted by the Forty-fourth Legislature (1935)
and adopted in an election Aug 24, 1935. (2) To
make mandatory a salary basis for constables and
precinct enforcement officers in counties of more
than 20,000 and making it mandatory, in coun-
ties of less than 20,000 population, that all sher-
iffs, deputy sheriffs and other county enforce-
ment officers, be on salary basis. Submitted by
Fiftieth Legislature (1947) and adopted in elec-
tion Nov. 2, 1948.1
Sec. 62. Retirement, Disability and Death
Compensation Funds.-(a) The Legislature
shall have the right to levy taxes to provide
a Retirement, Disability and Death Compen-
sation Fund for the appointive officers and
employees of the State; provided that the
amount contributed by the State to such
fund shall equal the amount paid for the
same purpose from the income of each such
person, and shall not exceed at any time
five per centum (5%) of the compensation
paid to each such person by the Stath, and
shall in no one year exceed the sum of one
hundred and eighty dollars ($180) for any
such person.
All funds provided from the compensation
of such person, or by the State of Texas. for
such Retirement, Disability and Death Com-
pensation Fund, as are received by the
Treasury of the State of Texas, shall be
invested in bonds of the United States, the
State of Texas, or counties or cities of this
State, or in bonds issued by any agency of
the United States Government, the payment
of the principal of and interest on which is
guaranteed by the United States, provided
that a sufficient amount of said funds shall
be kept on hand to meet the immediate pay-
ment of the amount likely to become due
each year out of said fund, such amount of
funds to be kept on hand to be determined
by the agency which may be provided by
law to administer said fund; and provided
that the recipients of benefits from said fund
shall not be eligible for any other pension
retirement funds or direct aid from the State
of Texas, unless the fund, the creation of
which Is provided for herein, contributed by
the State, is released to the State of Texas
as a condition to receiving such other pension
aid.
(b) Each county shall have the right to
provide for and administer a Retirement,
Disability and Death Compensation Fund for
the appointive officers and employees of the
county; provided same is authorized by a
majority vote of the qualified voters of such
county and after such election has been ad-
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State-wivertised by being published in at least one
newspaper of general circulation in said
county once each week for four consecutive
weeks; provided that the amount contributed
by the county to such fund shall equal the
amount paid for the same purpose from the
income of each such person, and shall not
exceed at any time five per centum (5%) of
the compensation paid to each such person
by the county, and shall in no one year
exceed the sum of one hundred and eighty
dollars ($180) for any such person.
All funds provided from the compensation
of each such person, or by the county, for
such Retirement, Disability and Death Com-
pensation Funds, as are received by the
county, shall be invested in bonds of the
United States, the State of Texas, or coun-
ties or cities of this State, or in bonds issued
by any agency of the United States Govern-
ment, the payment of the principal of and
interest on which is guaranteed by the
United States, provided that a sufficient
amount of said funds shall be kept on hand
to meet the immediate payment of the
amount likely to become due each year out
of said fund, such amount of funds to be
kept on hand to be determined by the
agency which may be provided by law to
administer said fund; and provided that the
recipients of benefits from said fund shall
not be eligible for any other pension retire-
ment funds or direct aid from the State of
Texas, unless the fund, the creation of which
is provided for herein, contributed by the
county, is released to the State of Texas as
a condition to receiving such other pension
aid.
[Note.-The foregoing Sec. 62 of Art. XVI, an
amendment, was added for the stated purposes of
establishing state and county retirement funds
Submitted by the Forty-ninth Legislature (1945),
ratified in election Nov. 5, 1946.]
Sec. 63. John Tarleton College Contract
Validated.-(See Art. III, Sec. 23-a, and note
thereon.)
ARTICLE XVII.-MODE OF AMENDING
THE CONSTITUTION OF THIS STATE.
Sec. 1. How the Constitution Is to Be
Amended.-The Legislature, at any biennial
session, by a vote of two thirds of all the
members elected to each house; to be en-
tered by yeas and nays on-the journals, may
propose amendments to the Constitution. to
be voted upon by the qualified electors for
members of the Legislature, which proposed
amendments shall be duly published once a
week for four weeks, commencing at least
three months before an election, the time of
which shall be specified by the Legislature.
in one weekly newspaper of each county in
which such newspaper may be published,
and it shall be the duty of the several re-
turning officers of said election to open a
poll for and make returns to the Secretary
of State of the number of legal votes cast at
said election for and against said amend-
mefft; and if more than one be proposed.
then the number of votes cast for and against
each of them; and if it shall appear from
said return that a majority of the votes cast
have been cast in favor of any amendment
the said amendment so receiving a majority
of the votes cast shall become a part of this
Constitution, and proclamations shall be made
by the Governor thereof.
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