Section 647.008 - Physical Examination Requirement(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) the person has been physically examined by a licensed doctor of medicine or osteopathy during the preceding 36 months; and(2) the doctor certifies that the person is physically qualified in accordance with Section 647.007.(b) The doctor's certificate must state: "Doctor's Certificate
(Operator of Migrant Agricultural Workers)
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.
____________ ____________
(Date) (Place)
________________________________
(Signature of Examining Doctor)
________________________________
(Address of Doctor)
(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.(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.Tex. Transp. Code § 647.008
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 62, Sec. 17.34(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1999.