General and Special Laws of The State of Texas Passed By The Third Called Session of the Fifty-Seventh Legislature and the Regular Session of the Fifty-Eighth Legislature Page: 527
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SALE OF CHECKS ACT
Hearings
Sec. 15. No license shall be denied or revoked except after a hearing
thereon. The Commissioner shall give the applicant or licensee at least
twenty (20) days written notice of the time and place of such hearing by
registered or certified mail addressed to the principal place of business of
such applicant or licensee. Any order of the Commissioner denying or re-
voking such license shall state the grounds upon which it is based and
shall not be effective until twenty (20) days after written notice thereof
has been sent by registered or certified mail to the applicant or licensee
at such principal place of business.
Penalties
Sec. 16. Any person who directly or through another violates or at-
tempts to violate any provision of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemean-
or, and shall be fined not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100) nor more
than Five Hundred Dollars ($500) or imprisoned in the county jail for not
more than ninety (90) days, or both. Each transaction in violation of this
Act and each day that a violation continues shall be a separate offense.
Severability
Sec. 17. Should any provision, sentence, clause, Section or part of
this Act for any reason be held unconstitutional, illegal or invalid, such
unconstitutionality, illegality, or invalidity shall not affect or impair any
of the remaining provisions, sentences, clauses, Sections or parts of this
Act. It is hereby declared to be the intention of this Legislature that this
Act would have been adopted had such unconstitutional, illegal or invalid
sentence, clause, Section or part thereof not been included herein.
Sec. 18. The importance of this legislation and the crowded condi-
tion of the calendar in both Houses create an emergency and an impera-
tive public necessity that the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read
on three several days in each House be suspended, and said Rule is hereby
suspended; and that this Act shall take effect and be in force from and
after its passage, and it is so enacted.
Passed the Senate, April 29, 1963: Yeas 24, Nays 6; May 13, 1963,
Senate concurred in House amendment by a viva voce vote;- passed
the House, May 8, 1963, with amendment, by a non-record vote.
Approved May 21, 1963.
Effective 90 days after May 24, 1963, date of adjournment.527
Ch. 196
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Texas. Legislature. General and Special Laws of The State of Texas Passed By The Third Called Session of the Fifty-Seventh Legislature and the Regular Session of the Fifty-Eighth Legislature, legislative document, 1963; [Austin, Texas]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth221759/m1/863/?rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.