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4 GENERAL LAWS.
for the non-payment of taxes prior to February 1, of the succeeding
year for which said taxes were levied and assessed
shall not apply to any taxes mentioned in Section 1, hereof, but
said taxes, if not paid before February 1, 1931, as now provided
by Law, shall bear interest from February 1, 1931, until
paid, at the rate of ten per centum per annum.
SEC. 4. Beginning October 16, 1931, all taxes levied and assessed
for the year 1930 other than poll taxes, remaining unpaid
on said date shall become delinquent, and thereafter the
amount then due shall bear and be subject to a five per cent
penalty and costs, interest and other charges now provided by
General Law for February 1st of each year and each act or
duty now required of any officer by Law shall then be performed
by such officer eight and one-half months after the
date now required by such Law.
SEC. 5. All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith shall
be subject to the terms of this Act and be controlled hereby.
SEC. 6. The scarcity of money and the impoverished condition
of many portions of our State, and the great hardships
that will be imposed upon the people of Texas, if compelled to
pay their taxes at the time limited by Law, create an emergency
and an imperative public necessity that the Constitutional Rule
requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended.
and the same is hereby suspended, and that this Act take effect
and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the
Governor and it is so enacted.
Approved January 29, 1931.
Effective January 29, 1931.
[NOTE: S. B. No. 8 passed the Senate by a vote of 31 yeas,
0 nays; passed the House with amendments by a vote of 132
yeas, 5 nays and was sent to Free Conference Committee; House
adopted Free Conference Committee report by a vote of 123 yeas,
6 nays; passed by the Senate by a vote of 29 yeas and 0 nays;
Senate concurred in House amendments and adopted report of
Free Conference Committee by a vote of 29 yeas and 0 nays.]
OFFICES OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL,
AUSTIN,
Jan. 29, 1931.
Hon. R. S. Sterling,
Governor of Texas,
Austin, Texas.
Dear Governor:
You have requested the Attorney General to give you his construction
of Sections 3 and 4, Senate Bill No. 8, relating to delinquent
taxes. The subject has been referred to the writer for
attention, and I beg to advise you as follows:
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