OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN
SROVERSELLERS
ATT~~~~~ GENERAL
Eunoreb.laFomer Gsrrloon, Jr., Dfraator
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oertltioate
Your reoent Fe inion of this
departmentreadsas folio
ehlole whloh
oertlfiaate or
m %otor Vehiole' me~~8 every kind
v8n or propelled veh~loleno~ror here-
Seotion 8b of Artiole 667sI, V. A. C. Y., relating
to the registrationof vehlolea gr0viaaS 88 iollowa:
Honorable Coiner Garrison, Jr., pape 2
?:o motor vehlole Ehall be reFlsteraa and
lioeneed whloh has a tote1 outAIde width, lnolw,-
Ing, any load theseon, of more thnn ninety-air
(913)lnoheo, * * *"
Thus ft Is #eon that the true!: Involved here is
not a %otor rshiale’ within the neanlng 0r the LagIslatIve
definition In the Vertirloate o? Title hat*, beaauee It I5
not only InelIgIble for registration but Ita cqlatrstlon
Islpeolfloally prohib:ted. Tt In olear thrt the Csrtffloate
Of Title Act only applies to mOtOr vehloler aa 4atIned there-
in and the operative pro~irIon5 of tha not ode that term
throughout. Provirrlon i8 iaede ror tha mrrrndor and osn-
cellatlon of a oertfrZcets of title when a vehlolo loam
its oharaotar as a zaotor vahlole a6 therein defined. Art.
1436-1, Sec. 37, V. A. l?. 0. Also Sootion 60 of the warn@
Ar tic lelt8tos that :
Se oonolude that the owner of tha over-width truok
inquired Is not entftl6d
ebout to reoelve a oertiffaata or
title for the rehlole though he might oporata ltfo a limited
degree over the publio hi&ways under a speolal geralt.