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1962 Arizona Attorney General Reports and Opinions 1 (1962)

handle is hein.sag/sagaz0083 and id is 1 raw text is: November 24, 1961
Opinion No. 62-1
REQUESTED BY: Honorable Charles N. Ronan
Mar'copa County Attcorney
OPINION BY:    ROBERT W. PICKRELL
The Attorney General
QUESTION:      Must claims submitted for out-of-state
travel by county employees be approved
by the Governor before such claims can
be paid?
CONCLUSION:    No.
The applicable provisions of the Arizona Revised Statutes are
set forth below:
§38-621. Persons eligible to receive travel expenses
The provisions of this article shall apply to every
public officer, deputy or employee of the state, or of
any department, institution or agency thereof, and to a
member of any board, commission or other agency of the
state when traveling on necessary public business away
from his designated post of duty and when issued a proper
travel order.
§38-626. Travel without the state
When the official duties or activities of a public
officer or employee of the state or of any department,
institution, commission, board or ot;her agency of the
state necessitate traveling without the state, the
travel order shall be countersigned by the governor and
shall be authority for the state auditor to pay such
claims from any funds available for such travel, but
the authorization of the governor may be dispensed with
when, by shortest practical routing, travel is necessary
through adjoining states to reach remote areas of this
state.
It is possible that a construction of A.R.S. §38-621 would lead
to the conclusion that all the provisions of Article 2, Chapter 4,
Title 38 do not apply to county officials and employees. The stat-
ute refers to every public officer, deputy or employee of the State.
The provisions in §38-621 were added in the 1952 supplement to the
1939 Code. Prior to that time the statute referred only to public
officers, and the statute was construed as applying to county of-
ficers as well as State officers.   However, we can arrive at the

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