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Show Sales Tax Funds MayBeUtilized It would be not only legal but in futherance of public policy for the governor to allocate sales tax funds up to $15,000 to enable persons per-sons who are without funds to prepare notices of , claims to underground water. This is the advice given recently by Attorney General Joseph Chez in an opinion submitted to State Engineer T. H-3- Humpherys. The state engineer had asked if the board of public welfare had the authority to use the money for this purpose. Mr. Chez say9 the governor's authority to make such allotment would come not only from the underground un-derground water law passed by the last legislature, but also from an act of the 1933 legislature in which he was empowered to prepare pre-pare a comprehensive program of public works. "Realizing as I do the imperative impera-tive need for conservation, control and regulation of the underground water supply of this state," Mr. Chez says, "and believing that enactment en-actment of chapter 105, laws of Utah, 1935, (the underground water law), is a forward step in the proper control and utilization of the underground water supply of this state, I am of the opinion that the proper filing of claims to the underground waters, as provided pro-vided in said act, is of sufficient interest to the general public of this state to justify the governor in exercising his discretion to allocate al-locate funds to the public welfare board for the purpose mentioned " |