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Tex. Transp. Code § 524.023 — Application of suspension under other laws
Current through 89th Legislature, 2nd Called Session (2025)
Part of Chapter 524: ADMINISTRATIVE SUSPENSION OF DRIVER'S LICENSE FOR FAILURE TO PASS TEST FOR INTOXICATION, Texas Transportation Code.
Full text of Tex. Transp. Code § 524.023
Statutory text current through the 89th Legislature, 2nd Called Session (2025). This publication reproduces the official statutory text; it is not the official statutes of the State of Texas.
(a) If a person is convicted of an offense under Section 106.041 , Alcoholic Beverage Code, or Section 49.04 , 49.045 , 49.06 , 49.061 , 49.07 , or 49.08 , Penal Code, and if any conduct on which that conviction is based is a ground for a driver's license suspension under this chapter and Section 106.041 , Alcoholic Beverage Code, Subchapter O, Chapter 521, or Subchapter H, Chapter 522, each of the suspensions shall be imposed. (b) The court imposing a driver's license suspension under Section 106.041 , Alcoholic Beverage Code, or Chapter 521 or 522 as required by Subsection (a) shall credit a period of suspension imposed under this chapter toward the period of suspension required under Section 106.041 , Alcoholic Beverage Code, or Subchapter O, Chapter 521, or Subchapter H, Chapter 522, unless the person was convicted of an offense under Article 6701l-1, Revised Statutes, as that law existed before September 1, 1994, Section 19.05 (a)(2), Penal Code, as that law existed before September 1, 1994, Section 49.04 , 49.045 , 49.06 , 49.061 , 49.07 , or 49.08 , Penal Code, or Section 106.041 , Alcoholic Beverage Code, before the date of the conviction on which the suspension is based, in which event credit may not be given.
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