Opinion No.

Honorable Mike Driscoll Harris County Attorney Harris County Courthouse 1001 Preston, Suite 634 Houston, Texas 77002

Re: Lease agreement between Harris County and South Texas College of Law

Dear Judge Driscoll:

Article 1817, V.T.C.S., provides that the Courts of Civil Appeals (to be redesignated `Courts of Appeals' on September 1, 1981) in the First and Fourteenth Supreme Judicial Districts shall be located in Houston. The statute further provides that:

[T]he County of Harris shall furnish and equip suitable rooms in Houston for [said courts], and for the justices thereof, all without cost or…