Texas Register, Volume 3, Number 8, Pages 345-413, January 31, 1978 Page: 350
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THE ATTORNEY
0 -' ENE "Requests for Opinions
Summary of Request for Opinion
RQ-181 1
Request for opinion sent to the Attorney General's Opinion
Committee by Truett Latimer, executive secretary, Texas
Antiquities Committee, Austin.
Summary of Request: Are the rules of the Texas Antiquities
Committee (published in the Texas Register on December 14,
1976 (1 TexReg 3504)), relating to underwater cultural
resource surveys which must be conducted by persons under-
taking construction in submerged areas, valid?
Doc. No. 780536
Opinions
Summary of Opinion H-111 5
Request from Robert J. Winn, executive director of the
Governor's Coordinating Office for the Visually Handi-
capped, Austin, concerning implementation of the statutory
program for purchases of blind-made products by the state.
Summary of Opinion: Article 664-5, Vernon's Texas Civil
Statutes, being a later expression of legislative intent, pre-
vails over conflicting provisions of Article 664-6, Vernon's
Texas Civil Statutes. As a result, the state is required to
purchase available products and services from nonprofit
agencies for the blind at the fair market price set by the
Texas Committee on Purchases of Blind-Made Products and
Services.
Doc. No. 780537
Summary of Opinion H-1116
Request from Dr. M. W. Roney, president, Texas State Tech-
nical Institute, Waco, concerning the status of the Texas
State Technical Institute as an agency of the State of Texas.
Summary of Opinion: The Texas State Technical Institute
is an agency of the State of Texas.
Doc. No. 780538
Summary of Opinion H-1117
Request from L. Alvis Vandygriff, commissioner, Texas Say-
ings and Loan Department, Austin, concerning cumulative
.voting at annual meetings of savings and loan associations.
Summary of Opinion: In the absence of any bylaw provision
to the contrary, a member of a savings and loan association
may not cumulate his votes.
Doc. No. 780539Summary of Opinion H-1118
Request from A. R. Schwartz, State Senator, Austin, concern-
ing the procedure for expungement of police records.
Summary of Opinion: Senate Bill 471, Acts of the 65th Leg-
islature, 1977, Chapter 747, at 1880, codified as Articles
55.01-55.05, Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, does not
preempt the right of local public entities to destroy arrest
records pursuant to the same authority by which such
records are maintained, but merely requires a law enforce-
ment agency to destroy those records in certain instances.
Doc. No. 780565
Summary of Opinion H- 1119
Request from Alton D. Ice, executive director, Advisory Coun-
cil for Technical-Vocational Education in Texas, Austin, con-
cerning whether Advisory Council for Technical-Vocational
Education is a state agency.
Summary of Opinion: The Advisory Council for Technical-
Vocational Education in Texas is a state agency and its ex-
ecutive director is entitled to reimbursement for actual travel
expenses under Article V, Section 15a, of the Appropriations
Act.
Issued in Austin, Texas, on January 24, 1978.Doc. No. 780601
C. Robert Heath
Opinion Commnittee Chairman
Attorney Get.. -'s OfficeFor further information, please call (512) 475-5445.
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