Journal of the Senate of Texas being the Second Called Session of the Forty-Third Legislature Page: 42
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42 SENATE JOURNAL.
on the public highways during application for the renewal of the
any month of a motor vehicle reg- registration of the vehicle, provided
istration year, without having at-
tached to and displayed on rear said receipts show that the appli-
tached to and displayed on rear
thereof a license number plate cant is the rightful owner thereof.
lawfully assigned therefor for that Provided, however, that should an
current year; and making it a mis- owner or a claimed owner of a motor
demeanor for any person to oper- vehicle or automobile offer to reg-
ate any motor vehicle trailer or ister same but has lost or misplaced
semi-trailer on the highways on or the registration receipt or transfer,
after April 1 of any motor vehicle then upon his furnishing satisfactory
registration year with license plate evidence to the tax collector by affi-
or plates for any preceding year davit or otherwise that he is the real
attached or displayed and provid- owner of same, then shall ti become
ing a fine in any sum not exceed- the duty of the tax collector to issue
ing two hundred ($200.00) dol- him license therefor. It shall be the
lars for conviction for any one of duty of the tax collector to date each
such misdemeanors; and declaring registration receipt issued for a ve-
an emergency, hicle the same date that application
is made for registration of such ve-
By Senators Oneal, Collie, Wood- hicle. Owners of motor vehicles,
ward, and Poage: trailers and semi-trailers, which are
Amend H. B. No. 6 by striking the property of, and used exclusively
out all after the enacting clause and in the service of the United States
substituting in lieu thereof the fol- Government, the State of Texas, or
lowing: any county or city thereof, shall ap-
Section 1. That Section Three (3) ply annually to register all such ve-
of Chapter 88, General Laws, Second hicles, but shall not be required to
Called Session, Forty-first Legisla- pay the registration fees herein pre-
ture, be amended so as hereafter to scribed provided that affidavit is
read: made at the time of registration by
"Application for the registration a person who has the proper author-
of a vehicle required to be registered ity that such vehicles are the prop-
hereunder shall be made on a form erty of and used exclusively in the
furnished by the department; each service of the United States Govern-
such application shall be signed by ment, the State of Texas, or county
the owner of the vehicle and shall or city thereof. Application shall be
give his name and address in full, made for the registration of a new
and shall contain a brief description vehicle for the unexpired portion of
of the vehicle to be registered. Said the year in which it is acquired be-
description, in case of a new motor fore it is oprated on the public high-
vehicle, shall include: the trade ways; except that a new vehicle may
name of the vehicle; the year model; be operated temporarily by a dealer
the style, type of body and the under a dealer's license number or by
weight, if a passenger car, or the its purchaser under a special dealer's
net carrying capacity and gross cardboard number as provided in
weight, if a commercial motor ve- Chapter 211, General and Special
hicle; the motor number; the date Laws of the Regular Session of the
of sale by manufacturer or dealer Fortieth Legislature. The year for
to the applicant. The application the purpose of registration of motor
shall contain such other information vehicles shall be April 1 to March 31
as may be required by the depart- (both inclusive), of the next succeed-
ment. It is expressly provided, how- ing calendar year, and may be re-
ever, that the owner of a vehicle ferred to as the 'Motor Vehicle Reg-
previously registered in any State istration Year,' and current year
for the preceding or current year where used in the statutes relating
may in lieu of filing an application to payment of registration fees shall
as hereinbefore directed, present the mean that motor vehicle registration
license receipt and transfer receipts, year. Application for the renewal of
if any, issued for the registration or registration of a vehicle and for each
transfer of the vehicle for the pre- chauffeur's license for any motor ve-
ceding calendar year, and said re- hicle registration year shall be made
ceipt or receipts shall be accepted not later than April 1st of such
by the county tax collector as an year."
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