Texas Transportation Code
§ 647.008 — PHYSICAL EXAMINATION REQUIREMENT
TN § 647.008Title 7. VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC · Part F. COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLES · Ch. 647. MOTOR TRANSPORTATION OF MIGRANT AGRICULTURAL WORKERS
Statute text
View on source(a)A person may not operate a motor vehicle transporting migrant agricultural workers and a carrier may not permit or require a person to operate the motor vehicle unless:
(1)the person has been physically examined by a licensed doctor of medicine or osteopathy during the preceding 36 months; and
(2)the doctor certifies that the person is physically qualified in accordance with Section 647.007.
(b)The doctor's certificate must state: "Doctor's Certificate (Operator of Migrant Agricultural Workers) This is to certify that I have this day examined __________ in accordance with the Texas law governing physical qualifications of operators of migrant agricultural workers and that I find __________ Qualified under that law Qualified only when wearing glasses or corrective lenses I have kept on file in my office a completed examination. ____________ ____________ (Date) (Place) ________________________________ (Signature of Examining Doctor) ________________________________ (Address of Doctor) Signature of Operator:__________________________________________Address of Operator:____________________________________________"(c) A carrier shall keep in its files at the carrier's principal place of business a legible doctor's certificate or a legible photographically reproduced copy of the doctor's certificate for each operator it employs or uses.
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Legislative history
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 62, Sec. 17.34(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1999.