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Transportation Code 521.372 on 5/27/2015

	
					

Text of section effective until February 25, 2023

Sec. 521.372.  AUTOMATIC SUSPENSION; LICENSE DENIAL. (a) A person's driver's license is automatically suspended on final conviction of:

(1)  an offense under the Controlled Substances Act;

(2)  a drug offense; or

(3)  a felony under Chapter 481, Health and Safety Code, that is not a drug offense.

(b)  The department may not issue a driver's license to a person convicted of an offense specified in Subsection (a) who, on the date of the conviction, did not hold a driver's license.

(c)  Except as provided by Section 521.374(b), the period of suspension under this section is the 180 days after the date of a final conviction, and the period of license denial is the 180 days after the date the person applies to the department for reinstatement or issuance of a driver's license.

Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.