OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN
Eon. W. I?.Biker
county Attorney
Coleman~County
Cole~un, Texan
it was invalid
or's licen5e law
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as to whether or
still in effect
iolating the law
t the present tine
hm been reo ,
cents Law is oodlfled in
03 as Article 6607a and the
he body of Aots 1935, 44th
n, Chapter 466, a5 amended
, Chapter 369. Section S
Operators and chauffeurs
Cn and af- April 1 3,936,
those expressly exez@'tmS;er
any riotorvo:rioleupon
unless such perscn
lioonsod as an oper-
Departmnt mder the
povisions of this act.=
The word ndegartcentw refers to the T)epartnent
Of Fubllc Safety of tMs State. It thus cs;\?eara i&p t%
Non. V. B. Baker, Page E
express language of tho statute that after April 1, 1936,
all operators of notor vehioles except thoeo expressly
exempt under the law nust have an operator's or ohatifeurts
.licenoe. .Section9 of the aot provides for the issuanae
of duplicate licenses in the event an operator's or chauf-
feur's license is lost or destroyed. Section 11 of the
Act provides that every operator's license shall expire
within thme years from the date of Issuance md shall be
renewed on or before April 1;1939 and each three years
thereafter tqon presentation of a valid license previously
issued unGer this act.
Un3ess an act expires by Its own term, it re-
mains in full rorce and effect until rcgealed or mended
by the Legislature. Tax enforcement or extraneous oircum-
stanoes do not affect the validity of on act yfisoedby
the Legislaturewhich has not bten anended or ropcoled.
Yhe oat under ccnsiderationdoes not state how the bepart-
mcnt of l-ublioSafety shall renew licenses, b,uto&ply
dlrcats It to do so. The method of reneml is left to
the discretion of the De?axWent,
It is the opinion of this departnent thht it Is
a violation of the law for a person to operate a motor
vehlole without an operator's or ahaufrexrvn llcense and
thqt the provlslons of the law are still in full~foroe
and erfect,