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TEXAS ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
TITLE 37. PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONS
PART 1. TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
CHAPTER 16. COMMERCIAL DRIVER LICENSE
SUBCHAPTER A. LICENSING REQUIREMENTS, QUALIFICATIONS, RESTRICTIONS, AND ENDORSEMENTS
Date:
08/31/2009
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37 TAC § 16.10 (2011)
§ 16.10. Exemptions and Qualifications
(a) The requirements relating to age, language, vision, and physical condition do not apply to the following operators of commercial vehicles, even though these operators will still be required to hold a commercial driver's license (CDL).
(1) School bus drivers transporting school children and/or school personnel from home to school and from school to home. This does not include a nongovernment carrier transporting school children.
(2) Employees of the federal government, a state, or a political subdivision of a state while operating a vehicle for the governmental entity. This includes school districts. This does not include contract carriers or for-hire carriers.
(3) Persons occasionally transporting personal property, not for compensation or in the furtherance of a commercial enterprise.
(4) Persons transporting human corpses or sick or injured persons.
(5) The private transportation of passengers.
(6) Persons operating fire trucks and rescue vehicles while involved in emergency and related operations. (These are persons not exempted from CDL because they are not an employee of a political subdivision nor are they volunteer fire fighters).
(7) Intracity zone drivers with limited exemption from 49 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 391 who possess Department of Transportation (DOT) medical examiner's certificate restricted to intracity operation. (Medical certificate must be presented to department employee at time of application.)
(8) The transportation of farm machinery, supplies, or both, to or from a farm for custom-harvesting operations on a farm or the transporting of custom-harvested operations to storage or market.
(9) Drivers operating motor vehicles controlled and operated by a beekeeper engaged in the seasonal transportation of bees.
(10) The operation of a vehicle operated intrastate and used in oil or water well servicing or oil or water well drilling and which is constructed as a machine consisting, in general, of a mast, an engine for power, a draw works, and a chassis permanently constructed or assembled for such purpose. (CDL must be restricted to intrastate.)
(11) The operation of a mobile crane that is an unladen self-propelled vehicle constructed as a machine used to raise, shift, or lower weights (CDL must be restricted to intrastate.)
(b) The exemption to the age requirements relates only to the 21 years of age minimum for interstate driving. All applicants for a CDL must still be at least 18 years of age, even if otherwise exempt under this section.
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