WARNING BY PEACE OFFICER
Known as the Texas Commercial Driver's License Act
The act spans §§ 522–522 (71 sections).
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Texas Department of Public Safety v. Chavez (1998)
Most recently applied in Texas Department of Public Safety v. Scanio (January 2005)
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) A peace officer requesting a person to submit a specimen under Section 522.102 shall warn the person that a refusal to submit a specimen will result in the person's being immediately placed out of service for 24 hours and being disqualified from driving a commercial motor vehicle for at least one year under Section 522.081.
(b) A peace officer requesting a person to submit a specimen under Section 522.102 is not required to comply with Section 724.015.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.