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THE ArozNEYr GENERAL
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AUsn 1, TEICASo' Overruled
If1TI I IJune 16, 1952
Hon. Ernest Ouinn
County Attorney
El Paso County
El Paso, Texas
Dear Sir:Opinion No. V-163
Re: Eligibility of a member of
a county board of school
trustees to continue to
serve when a oommissioners'
court order changing the
boundaries: of comemision-
ers" preotnots has placed
the trustee's -residence
outside the precinct from
which he was. elected.We quote in substance from your letter
requestingan opinion of this office ooncerning the
following matter.
A..person was elected a member on the
board of county chool trustees at the eleo-
tion in April, 1951, for a term of two-years
beginhing':Nay , ,1951. At the time he was
elected and took-office, and at the present
time, he resided and now resides in voting
precinct No. 43 :of El -Paso County.
By an #order of the commissioners -court,
dated :December :17, .1951, the "boundary between
.commlssoner pr eoinets Nos. and .. was
moved to the east; so ht voqtirg' p~tbinot
43 was placed in commissioners' precinct 'No.
At the .time of his election, he was elect-
ed as the county trustee from commissioners'
precinct No. 1. 'By virtue of the commissioners'
court order, since December 17, 1951, his resi-
.dence has not-been in commissioners' precinct
No. .1 but Ln commissioners' preainot No. 4.
Question: Does the change of his resi-
denoce occasioned by the change in commission-
ers' precinct boundaries by the commissioners'
court render him ineligible to serve as county
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