Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6609 Page: 6 of 7
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Honorable elson Greeman, page 6
training or edueation, other than by dishonor-
able discharge, provided ho furnishes the State
Board of fxraminers L Optometry with affidavit
to the effct that he has been so engaged, and
that his service, training or education has
beea so terminated.'
It will be noted that the statute makes a dis-
tiaction between the publioe generally and persons coming
within certain listed eateories, which latter group we
Vill for soaveaiene designate as those Var ervie Group.
T h first two provisions in the bill deal with
the publi generally. We construe the first proviso to
authorize a person who has begun his apprenticeship "and
so filed intention with" the board af!.prior to the ef-
feotive date of the newv law, wra , 1945, to receive
benefit of the apprenticeship provisions of the old la..
With r feren e to the second proviso, you are .ad-
vised that July z, 1945, was the last day for registration
by those persos to who the second proviso quoted above
applie s.
The third and fourth provisos of the ne law pro-
vide for special consideration La behalf of the War Service
Group. In order to receive the benefit of the appreatice-
ship provisions of th old4 n, a person in this group is
required to register with the war within six months aft-
er termination of his ?ederal service, training or eduea-
tion. e consoutrue the six toths provision as mandatory,
and hold that the Board is not authorized to aceept a sax-
her of the War Service Group as an appreatice vhen such per-
son seeks to register after sat 's1x m ths period has ex-
pired. Ve f Id t o provisie La the 1945 moadmeat from which
it ay be inerred that the Le islatue intae-ded otherwise
th that termination of the six months period creates at
absolute dea1ae.
e ao o r din4y aswer your three questions as fol-
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Texas. Attorney-General's Office. Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6609, text, 1945; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth263886/m1/6/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.