Tex. Transp. Code § 647.002 · Chapter 647. MOTOR TRANSPORTATION OF MIGRANT AGRICULTURAL WORKERS
APPLICATION OF CHAPTER.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) This chapter applies to any carrier, including a carrier under contract, who at any time uses a motor vehicle to transport to or from a place of employment in this state at least five migrant agricultural workers for a total distance of more than 50 miles.
(b) This chapter does not apply if:
(1) the carrier is a common carrier;
(2) the motor vehicle used is a station wagon or passenger automobile; or
(3) the carrier is a migrant agricultural worker transporting the worker or a member of the worker's immediate family.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 62, Sec. 17.34(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.647.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 197c1993af0c0a15d7eea604480ea363e2bea8a4b94f00ccce2374e0d803fe09
- Composed by
- 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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