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Hon, Robert S. Calvert, page 2 (M-161)
sit in other districts or counties. Subsection (4) of Section
2a of Article 200a, is quoted, in part, as follows:
". . . judges who are required to hold
court outside their own districts and out
of their own counties under the provisions
of this Act, shall receive a per diem of
Twenty-five ($25.00) Dollars for each day,
or fraction thereof, which they spend out-
side their said districts and counties in
the performance of their duties; . . ."
Article 200a, standing alone applies only to District
Judges, and the Judge is a recent retired Court of Civil Ap-
peals Judge, Zsee Attorney General's Opinion No. M-151 (1967I/,
having retired on September 1, 1967,. under the provisions of
Article 6228b, Vernon's Civil Statutes, as amended by Senate Bill
397, Acts 60th Legislature, Regular Session,. 1967, chapter 346,
page 820. The amendment was effective June 8, 1967.
Section 7 of Senate Bill 397 is quoted, in part,
as follows:
' ". . . Any person who has rerd under
the rm.9v isao.ns 29 this Jud.cial Retirement
Act ~rt, 22Qb, VCS,/ may IIegt in writing
addressed to the Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court within ninety (90) days after such re-
tirement, or within ninety (90) days after the
effective date of this amended Section, which-
ever is the later date, to continue as a 1,di-
cial ofEicger in which instance they shall,
with their own consent to each assignment, be
subiect to assignment bv the Chief .Justice of
the Suprem Court to sit _n any cqurt P this
state of the sae __dinity, ....r lesser, as that
from which thev retired, and if in a District
Court, under the same ruls as Provided by
the present Adminirstrtive Judicial Act, /Krt.
200a, V.C.Sj and while so assigned, shall
have all the powers of judges thereof. . . ."
(Emphasis added.)-755-
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Texas. Attorney-General's Office. Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-161, text, November 27, 1967; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth269379/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.