General and Special Laws of The State of Texas Passed By The Third Called Session of the Fifty-Seventh Legislature and the Regular Session of the Fifty-Eighth Legislature Page: 29
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34TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT
DISTRICT ATTORNEY-34TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT--
COMPENSATION
CHAPTER 22
H. B. No. 55
An Act amending Chapter 12, Acts of the Fifty-third Legislature, Regular Ses-
sion, 1953, as amended (compiled as Article 3886h of Vernon's Texas Civil
Statutes), so that in the Thirty-fourth Judicial District of Texas the max-
Imum salary of the District Attorney shall be fixed at not to exceed Fourteen
Thousand Dollars ($14,000), and the maximum salary of the Assistants and
Investigators shall not exceed Eleven Thousand Dollars ($11,000) for the
First Assistant District Attorney and Eight Thousand, Five Hundred Dol-
lars ($8,500) for other Assistant District Attorneys and Investigators in said
District; containing a severability clause; and declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
Section 1. Chapter 12, Acts of the Fifty-third Legislature, Regular
Session, 1953, as amended (compiled as Article 3886h of Vernon's Texas
Civil Statutes), is hereby amended 19 so that it shall hereafter read as
follows:
"Section 1. The District Attorney of the Thirty-fourth Judicial Dis-
trict of this State shall be paid a salary in an amount not to exceed Four-
teen Thousand Dollars ($14,000) per year. The First Assistant District
Attorney of said Thirty-fourth Judicial District shall receive a salary not
to exceed Eleven Thousand Dollars ($11,000) per year; and the other As-
sistant District Attorneys and Investigators in said District shall receive
salaries not to exceed Eight Thousand, Five Hundred Dollars ($8,500) a
year.
"Sec. 2. The Commissioners Court of El Paso County, Texas, in said
Thirty-fourth Judicial District, is hereby authorized to pay the salaries of
the Assistants and Investigators as provided in Section 1 of this Act, and
to supplement the salary of the District Attorney paid by the State of
Texas in such an amount that the total salary paid shall not exceed the
maximum provided for in Section 1 hereof. Nothing herein shall affect the
present existing law relating to the manner of selecting, determining the
number, and fixing the amount of salaries to be paid the First Assistant
District Attorney, the Assistant District Attorneys and Investigators ex-
cept as herein provided."
Sec. 2. If any paragraph, phrase, clause or Section of this Act be held
invalid, it shall not affect the balance of said Act, but it is expressly de-
clared to be the intention of the Legislature that it would have passed the
balance of said Act without such portion as may be held invalid.
Sec. 3. The importance of this legislation creates an emergency and
an imperative public necessity that the Constitutional Rule requiring bills
to be read on three several days in each House be suspended; and said
Rule is hereby suspended, and this Act shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage, and it is so enacted.
Passed the House, February 19, 1963, by a non-record vote; passed the
Senate, March 21, 1963: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
Approved March 28, 1963.
Effective 90 days after date of adjournment.
19. Vernon's Ann.Civ.SLt. art. 3886.29
Ch. 22
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