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1968 Book 2 Texas Attorney General Reports and Opinions 1 (1968)

handle is hein.sag/sagtx0114 and id is 1 raw text is: Tm ATiO(RDNEY GENERAL o\r TEXAS AUSTIN, TEXAS 7871 ORAWFORD U. MARTIN ATTORNEY GENERAL September 19,1968 Honorable J.R. Singleton Opinion No. M-276 Executive Director Parks and Wildlife Department Re: Whether gate entrance John H. Reagan Building receipts collected at Austin, Texas 78701 Palo Duro Canyon State Park since November 28, 1967, should be deposited in the Texas Park Develop- ment Bonds Interest and Dear Mr. Singleton: Sinking Fund. In your recent request for an official opinion from this office, you submitted the following facts as hereinafter summarized: (1) Revenue Bonds were issued by the State Parks Board in 1947 to secure the pay- ment of lands comprising the Palo Duro Canyon State Park. These bonds have been fully paid and discharged. (2) In 1965, the Act under which gate en- trance fees were collected at Palo Duro Canyon State Park, (Art.6077j V.O.S.) was amended to permit the continued collection of fees after retirement of the said bonded indebtedness, such fees to be used for improvements to the Park. Such fees were collected from 1965 through November 28, 1967, effective date of the Constitutional Amendment (Art.III, Sec. 49-e Constitution of Texas) and Article 6070h, Vernon's Civil Statutes, the enabling law passed pursuant to the authority thereof, which amendment and statute presently provide for the collection of gate entrance fees at all State Parks, as well as the disposition of those fees. Your inquiry relates solely as to what disposition should be made of gate entrance fees collected at the Palo Duro Canyon State Park from November 28, 1967, to the present, and as to such fees collected in the future. -1337-

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