Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 215.029 · Subchapter B. REGULATION BY TYPE A GENERAL-LAW MUNICIPALITY
DRIVERS; PORTERS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The governing body of the municipality may license, tax, or otherwise regulate:
(1) cabdrivers;
(2) draymen;
(3) bus drivers;
(4) baggage wagon drivers;
(5) porters; and
(6) any other persons pursuing similar occupations with or without vehicles.
(b) The governing body may prescribe the compensation of persons subject to Subsection (a).
(c) The governing body may provide for the protection of persons subject to Subsection (a) and may make the attempt to defraud those persons of any legal charge for services rendered a misdemeanor offense.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.215.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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