Tex. Transp. Code § 502.435 · Subchapter I. ALTERNATE REGISTRATION FEES
CERTAIN SOIL CONSERVATION EQUIPMENT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The owner of a truck-tractor, semitrailer, or low-boy trailer used on a highway exclusively to transport the owner's soil conservation machinery or equipment used in clearing real property, terracing, or building farm ponds, levees, or ditches may register the vehicle for a fee equal to 50 percent of the fee otherwise prescribed by this chapter for the vehicle.
(b) An owner may register only one truck-tractor and only one semitrailer or low-boy trailer under this section.
(c) An owner must certify that the vehicle is to be used only as provided by Subsection (a).
(d) The registration receipt issued for a vehicle registered under this section must be carried in or on the vehicle and state the nature of the operation for which the vehicle may be used.
(e) A vehicle to which this section applies that is operated on a public highway in violation of this section is considered to be operated while unregistered and is immediately subject to the applicable registration fees and penalties prescribed by this chapter.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Transferred, redesignated and amended from Transportation Code, Section 502.188 by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1296 (H.B. 2357), Sec. 145, eff. January 1, 2012.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.502.htm
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