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Texas Transportation Code - Section 521.201. License Ineligibility In General

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§ 521.201. LICENSE INELIGIBILITY IN GENERAL.  The 
department may not issue any license to a person who:
		(1)  is under 15 years of age;                                                
		(2)  is under 18 years of age unless the person complies 
with the requirements imposed by Section 521.204;
		(3)  is shown to be addicted to the use of alcohol, a 
controlled substance, or another drug that renders a person 
incapable of driving;
		(4)  holds a driver's license issued by this state or 
another state or country that is revoked, canceled, or under 
suspension;
		(5)  has been determined by a judgment of a court to be 
totally incapacitated or incapacitated to act as the operator of a 
motor vehicle unless the person has, by the date of the license 
application, been:
			(A)  restored to capacity by judicial decree;  or                            
			(B)  released from a hospital for the mentally 
incapacitated on a certificate by the superintendent or 
administrator of the hospital that the person has regained 
capacity;
		(6)  the department determines to be afflicted with a 
mental or physical disability or disease that prevents the person 
from exercising reasonable and ordinary control over a motor 
vehicle while operating the vehicle on a highway, except that a 
person may not be refused a license because of a physical defect if 
common experience shows that the defect does not incapacitate a 
person from safely operating a motor vehicle;
		(7)  has been reported by a court under Section 
521.3452 for failure to appear unless the court has filed an 
additional report on final disposition of the case;  or
		(8)  has been reported by a court for failure to appear 
or default in payment of a fine for a misdemeanor that is not 
covered under Subdivision (7) and that is punishable by a fine only, 
including a misdemeanor under a municipal ordinance, committed by a 
person who was under 17 years of age at the time of the alleged 
offense, unless the court has filed an additional report on final 
disposition of the case.

Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.  Amended 
by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 560, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997;  Acts 
1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1080, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999;  Acts 2003, 
78th Leg., ch. 283, § 54, eff. Sept. 1, 2003;  Acts 2005, 79th 
Leg., ch. 949, § 50, eff. Sept. 1, 2005.

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