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Oi=FlCE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF, TEXAS
AUSTIN ..~..--
Eonorabla Ray Wrider, page 2
*%a above-quoted order purportedly mde by
the &ate lif@,hway Rnelnear Is apprrently wedlcrrted
upon the statute rererred to. Please advise w’tetber:
“(1) &ld statute is euffioient adhority to
#tagport the ordsr aad agroemaant o? the 3tate EighWay
En&neor, without &3&g iimitea to States having a
smlar reoijwooal agreentent with Texas?
9a tUa~oonnectlon, yooar attention La iavitid
to the raot.~that
the statuta appqmtay rathorlse8
such an agreomnt by .the State Blgkwey Engineer only ’
au an reolprooal arrangesent with other States cant-
ing to Texar amtorlsts like grlvilager.
,“(a) Is ~the statute ~entioued Conrtltutional :
2mofar a8 it rel4ter tomthe grazM.ng or exeaptlont3
.rromregirtratioa In Tsurr of truok&froiii otJier~State6
where malprocal s+eessat8 aiw %i&efrixot ail to Texas?
“I rind no authorities on thesubJect. The
rtatuta 1)eems not to hare been oonatrued by the Courts
or Tex3o.” .
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article 8605pr-18, provfdes .as fol.lou~:
“(a) In addition to ad regjardleJe or the
p2!ririeloas0r this .4ot I or any .other hot relating
to the operatlop of sotor tehlalea over the public
highways &this &ate, by non-resldenta, the Stste-
& ttawaat acttng by land through t&e State
Klghray
fllghwar’ i!z
~ ,‘@esr LB hereby authorized to enter into
ayemmntcr. with duly authorized 0rri0im O.rother
3tat.68 sX+mptking the resldeats of art& other Zt%tes
wing the pablto hi&hv+o. or t&J State from the
papmat or rsgistratlon Peee i?r suoh periods or
extsnaions or tiipo aa inay be ganttd residents ‘or
Texas tlelng the public highways of such at&r 3tate.
*(b) rhie sectioa shall be cuzmlstlva of &l
other laws on this rubject, but LB the, went of a
sofUliat between tbe provision6 of this aeotlon
and a4 other +iot on this subject, the provlato~a
of this mctlon shell prevail.
“(0) Any p4rmn owalag of ojwrating a ve-
Ucl,c not registered la this state, in rlolation
of tb tuna of a4 agreement made under thla aeu-
tioo, 0f in the absence 0r my ammmeat, in riola-
tlon or the agpllaa)lc reglstmtion law of thla
State, ahall be guilty of a aiadelacicnor and upon
. uoaiLa%ioa ahall be fined any sum aot l x o ea din6
Two &tiidred f&00.00) Dollcrr."
The authorization granted by tha above st%tuta to
tba State 3lghw4 Depart;aent,aotlhg by and t&o& the State .
Higha +@m~r, to enter Into agraammte with dlilg authorized
oniaiula.or otlzear states .axamptlng tha raaidents oi rush other
States. mm the pay5aot 0r raglatratlon rata r0r oartdn puioaa
oi tLae lo oiearly aad derlaltaly limited by’ tha Astute to “such
parlods or extensions of the as zay be granted residents oi Texas
usFag tha publio highways of such other Stats.” It Is, thera-
iore, not aubjaot to construction 00 this point, and it rollowe
that 002 MIIZ to your Zirat question is that said statute ia
not aufficlant atithority to support tha order and agrersnt or
the State Highzfay 2Czglhear rarerred to azmva, ozless said order
is liA$cd to etatea having a slallar rcciproosl agreement with
Texas .~
Our rulewar to pour second question 1s that ttere
axe ho’Srounds of uzconetltutloiiallty aypareht to us in the
statute acd none hea been called to oux attention.
Statutory anthoorlzatlon r0r r.aelprocal egrarmaots
inuring to the banaflt of realdeata of other 3tatea wbera alal-
lsr benefits arc granted to reslde~ts of Texas are r&her com-
mon. Two axa;5~ples 6re ;rrtlcla 2e54, 3aotion 2, acd Artiole
3OUa, Versoals Annotated Civil ;Stetstea,
The claseltloat~lon mcde ln auoh.stctutea scc;43reeaon-
able to us because the baaefita artandad are to realdents ui
other Statea extending similar benefits to Ba*eslder.ts cf
Texas. Ze hale iowd no dacriaiooa bo’lding such cl~ssiff-
oatlon anc$nstitutlonal.
This statutedoes not aaam to ua to be ax h-
proper dalagation of legislative power bacauae ntien prosrly
oonatrued it aata up and daitaes the otaudarde and lk6lta
within whbh tha Stata jiighway Departxmnt, aoting through
the State Righway fa&aaer, lay aat. ”
tcr6tata ~Txuoklae Corn
pmw~alona and dia~uasad tha jdnta mentioned above.