{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-transportation-code-647.008","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Transportation Code § 647.008","heading":"PHYSICAL EXAMINATION REQUIREMENT.","body":"(a) A person may not operate a motor vehicle transporting migrant agricultural workers and a carrier may not permit or require a person to operate the motor vehicle unless:\n(1) the person has been physically examined by a licensed doctor of medicine or osteopathy during the preceding 36 months; and\n(2) the doctor certifies that the person is physically qualified in accordance with Section 647.007.\n(b) The doctor's certificate must state:\n\"Doctor's Certificate\n(Operator of Migrant Agricultural Workers)\nThis is to certify that I have this day examined __________ in accordance with the Texas law governing physical qualifications of operators of migrant agricultural workers and that I find __________\nQualified under that law\nQualified only when wearing glasses or corrective lenses\nI have kept on file in my office a completed examination.\n____________ ____________\n(Date) (Place)\n________________________________\n(Signature of Examining Doctor)\n________________________________\n(Address of Doctor)\n(c) A carrier shall keep in its files at the carrier's principal place of business a legible doctor's certificate or a legible photographically reproduced copy of the doctor's certificate for each operator it employs or uses.\n(d) An operator shall carry the operator's legible doctor's certificate or a legible photographically reproduced copy of the doctor's certificate when operating the motor vehicle.\nAdded by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 62, Sec. 17.34(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1999.","path":["TRANSPORTATION CODE","TITLE 7. VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC","SUBTITLE F. COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLES","CHAPTER 647. MOTOR TRANSPORTATION OF MIGRANT AGRICULTURAL WORKERS"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.647.htm#647.008","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:44Z","sha256":"b07b5246ffcbd13108a4921a8a4bb285a1c9820ea0d54c4289627e4ef55c2bf5","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-transportation-code-647.007","next":"us-tx/tex.-transportation-code-647.009"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}