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Texas Transportation Code - Section 521.351. Purchase Of Alcohol For Minor Or Furnishing Alcohol To Minor: Automatic Suspension; License Denial

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§ 521.351. PURCHASE OF ALCOHOL FOR MINOR OR FURNISHING 
ALCOHOL TO MINOR:  AUTOMATIC SUSPENSION;  LICENSE DENIAL.  (a) A 
person's driver's license is automatically suspended on final 
conviction of an offense under Section 106.06, Alcoholic Beverage 
Code.
	(b)  The department may not issue a driver's license to a 
person convicted of an offense under Section 106.06, Alcoholic 
Beverage Code, who, on the date of the conviction, did not hold a 
driver's license.
	(c)  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, 
unless the person has previously been denied a license under this 
section or had a license suspended, in which event the period of 
suspension is one year after the date of a final conviction, and the 
period of license denial is one year after the date the person 
applies to the department for reinstatement or issuance of a 
driver's license.

Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., ch. 1056, § 3, eff. Sept. 1, 2005.          

Last modified: August 11, 2007