1. (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:

   1. (1) the person has been physically examined by a licensed doctor of medicine or osteopathy during the preceding 36 months; and
   2. (2) the doctor certifies that the person is physically qualified in accordance with Section 647.007.

2. (b) The doctor's certificate must state:

   This 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 __________

   Qualified under that law

   Qualified only when wearing glasses or corrective lenses

   I have kept on file in my office a completed examination.

   ____________ ____________

3. (Date) (Place)

   1. (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.
   2. (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.

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   (Signature of Examining Doctor)

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   (Address of Doctor)

Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 62, Sec. 17.34(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1999.