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58TH LEGISLATURE-REGULAR SESSION
DISTRICT ATITORNEY-53RD JUDICIAL DISTRICT-
DUTIES AND COMPENSATION
CHAPTER 187
H. B. No. 359
An Act amending Chapter 55, Acts, Fifty-second Legislature, 1951, as amended
by Chapter 43, Acts, Fifty-fifth Legislature, 1957 (compiled as Article 326k-14
of Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), providing that the District Attorney of the
53rd Judicial District shall represent the State in the Criminal District Court
and all other district courts of Travis County, providing for the appointment
of a First Assistant District Attorney and other Assistant District Attorneys
and secretaries with the consent and approval of the Commissioners Court;
providing for the minimum and maximum salaries to be paid; containing a
severability clause; and declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
Section 1. Chapter 55, Acts, Fifty-second Legislature, 1951, as amend-
ed by Chapter 43, Acts, Fifty-fifth Legislature, 1957 (compiled as Article
326k-14 of Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) 21 is hereby amended to read
as follows:
"Section 1. The District Attorney for the 53rd Judicial District shall
represent the State in all criminal cases before the Criminal District Court
of Travis County, Texas, the 53rd Judicial District Court, the 98th Judicial
District Court, the 126th Judicial District Court, and all other District
Courts of said County.
"Sec. 2. The District Attorney shall appoint a First Assistant Dis-
trict Attorney and such other assistants and secretaries as shall be neces-
sary to the proper performance of his official duties. The number of as-
sistants and secretaries to be appointed and the compensation to be paid
shall be with the approval of the Commissioners Court of Travis County,
Texas.
"Sec. 3. The District Attorney of the 53rd Judicial District shall be
paid a salary in an amount not to exceed the total salary paid from State
and county funds to the Judge of the Criminal District Court or other
District Judges of Travis County nor less than the salary paid from State
funds alone to the Judge of the Criminal District Court or other District
Judges of Travis County, Texas. The First Assistant District Attorney
shall receive a salary not less than Seven Thousand, Five Hundred Dol-
lars ($7,500) nor more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000) per year and
other Assistant District Attorneys shall receive salaries not less than
Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000) nor more than Seven Thousand, Five Hun-
dred Dollars ($7,500) per year.
"Sec. 4. The Commissioners Court of Travis County is hereby au-
thorized to pay the salaries provided in Section 3 of this Act or to supple-
ment the salaries of the District Attorney and Assistant District Attor-
neys paid by the State of Texas in such an amount that the total salaries
paid shall not exceed the maximum provided herein."
Sec. 2. If any paragraph, phrase, clause or section of this Statute
is held invalid, it shall not affect the balance of said Act, but it is expressly
declared 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
21. Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. art. 326k-14.
502Ch. 187
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