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Texas Family Code - Section 232.011. Action By Licensing Authority

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§ 232.011. ACTION BY LICENSING AUTHORITY.  (a) On receipt 
of a final order suspending license, the licensing authority shall 
immediately determine if the authority has issued a license to the 
individual named on the order and, if a license has been issued:
		(1)  record the suspension of the license in the 
licensing authority's records;
		(2)  report the suspension as appropriate;  and                               
		(3)  demand surrender of the suspended license if 
required by law for other cases in which a license is suspended.
	(b)  A licensing authority shall implement the terms of a 
final order suspending license without additional review or 
hearing.  The authority may provide notice as appropriate to the 
license holder or to others concerned with the license.
	(c)  A licensing authority may not modify, remand, reverse, 
vacate, or stay an order suspending license issued under this 
chapter and may not review, vacate, or reconsider the terms of a 
final order suspending license.
	(d)  An individual who is the subject of a final order 
suspending license is not entitled to a refund for any fee or 
deposit paid to the licensing authority.
	(e)  An individual who continues to engage in the business, 
occupation, profession, or other licensed activity after the 
implementation of the order suspending license by the licensing 
authority is liable for the same civil and criminal penalties 
provided for engaging in the licensed activity without a license or 
while a license is suspended that apply to any other license holder 
of that licensing authority.
	(f)  A licensing authority is exempt from liability to a 
license holder for any act authorized under this chapter performed 
by the authority.
	(g)  Except as provided by this chapter, an order suspending 
license or dismissing a petition for the suspension of a license 
does not affect the power of a licensing authority to grant, deny, 
suspend, revoke, terminate, or renew a license.
	(h)  The denial or suspension of a driver's license under 
this chapter is governed by this chapter and not by the general 
licensing provisions of Chapter 521, Transportation Code.
	(i)  An order issued under this chapter to suspend a license 
applies to each license issued by the licensing authority subject 
to the order for which the obligor is eligible.  The licensing 
authority may not issue or renew any other license for the obligor 
until the court or the Title IV-D agency renders an order vacating 
or staying an order suspending license.

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 655, § 5.03, eff. Sept. 1, 
1995;  Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 751, § 85, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.  
Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, § 30.184, eff. Sept. 1, 
1997;  Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 911, § 90, eff. Sept. 1, 1997;  
Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1023, § 62, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.

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