OFFICE OF ‘I’HE AT7’ORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS 

AUSTIN 

Honorable b. L. Hlnuron, Jr. 

county nuditor 

Llvlngaton, TQxtias 

Polk County 

Dear s1r: O~lnlon Ho. O-52J.8 

2s: Can a luaber oompany 

whioh operates Ita own 

trucks for hauling tisber 

to ltr mill, eoae of which 

ir grown on it6 land and 

mme of whfoh le gurohar.4 

from other@, regleter it8 

truok6 with tara lloenser 

in8tead 0r comaerolal licenses. 

Your letter to ue doted hgrfl 6, 1943, propounded 

the r0il0wi~ q.clec5ti.n: 

vtmt8 bng lm6r Lumber c0ap4my, or thie 00uey 

own8 eereral truuko whioh thel uee to heul lo@ to 

their till fro& tinbsr owned bf them over the dlffarent 

p~-t8 0r th0 00my. They own roar-or the luid thl6 

tlaber is on end only own the timber on ethos tracts 

wblcb thep buy Srom different people ovex the oountf." 

"Can Texas Lens Leaf Lumber Coapany, a Corporation 

of the Ytatc of Texas. regleter their truaks with Farm 

Llcenee Instead oi Commerolal Llcenee under the abow 

alrcui?i!3tRnocref" 

frr zos~onse to said latter our atiinistratl*e 

Psei6tRnt) Yx. S. C. Caeon mailed you copier of our Op5A~ons 

Hoe. O-3317, 0-33~1, and O-527, which we thought fully 

covered the C&0atlGsi of law involved in your situation. 

In reply to Sr. CRSOII*II letter enaloelng the 

Oplnionlr abse referred to, w P3OeiYfbd YOUr 16ttsr Or 

api 12, 1943, stating that the lumber Wnipany 8till 

II 
ifosotablo E. L. HInoon, Jr. pAge 2 

ooatonded that it oould buy fern truok licenrw for ita tmeka. 

Ill. par Abttef ot kpril 12, you raqueot that wo epeelflo~Uy 

a~mer the tollowIng question: 

*Can Y Lumber Compagaay, ukleh operatea their own 

trucks ror t&z yurposa QI hauling logs to their O*UL 

Nell ior proobrslne and for eela of tha lumber, and 

who om the tlrober, refristar their traoka with fara 

Iloam undor iirtlclo 667lk-E and Artlole 687so-6a.n 

Both of your lottorr 8tate that the Luabbr Co-9 

hauls both timber groun 011 ito own luad and tlmbm puromed 

trua other8 CO its nil1 r0r prooer8lng. 

In our Opin&oa Ho. W-827 Qated Aprlll7, 1.030, thir 

dbparkaent held that the bon6flt8 or artloles 667&p6a l eo r uo u 

only to peratms transporting their own pro&ate end aot to thooo 

trur8portiog art10186 purohaeod Roar other*. In our Opinian 

lo. O-2201 thlr dopertint again oonstrued attic18 b69Seba fn 

whloh Opilrlon It citbd with spproial and puotad Iron our 0 l~lon 

Ho. O-627 and hold that QM tranqxwting oattlo ~~rohoood Rp 01 

AAOthSS VIAE not OiItlttid to the LWAOritS Of oe$d 6rtiOlO. 

,., 

Tha 47th LegIslaturo l aondod article 6675~~$o 

l ffeetlvo April No, lW, eo a8 to in~ludo %19tlbw in it8 

naturAl akte* within itr oiarririoation. our OpinIona 

Boa. 0.589 and 04801, both of whloh conrtruod artlolo (ibT(k-ba 

were writton prior to the wndaont of oald artiule, and the 

Lqislature readopted tba phrareelogy 'hia oiaa poultry,* oto, 

thereby ffidmoing a legfdatire intont to adopt our aonotruotion 

of ulid IAA&uage. 

hrtfole 687ba-2 hem ao applioetlon whotever to 

tka iaoto favolvrd hore. 

rt iouewa that our auwbr to four pubrrtlon ir 

t&t a lumbar oomperq whiah haut8 tSnbor puroharod from other8 

A# USA &S that sn>m dn ita 0m land to fta aiu ror mmo~sing 

ir no t l ntltlod to the beaefito yrrrridod by artfole Ob Sa-ba.