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<div class="ocr">TH: ATTORNEY GENERAL,
Or TEXAS

PRICE DANIEL Austin, TEXAS -

ATTORNEY «20ND

Gpinian No. O-3901
Be: TYenporary registration of non-
resident motor venicle

We have received your letter of recent date in vnich you
request our opinion on certain questions arising out of the construction
to be placed on Article Se7p, Vernon's Penal Geode. Said questions are
quoted from your letter as follows:

"(1) Hoes the definition of « nonm-resident contre)
the aon-residant in the tetel auuber of days, to-wit, 120
din the calentar year, that be is allowed to operate & ve~
bicle upon Texas Bighvayn;

“)2) I¢ the definition of « non-xesident does control
the non-resident inthe total oumber af days that be fs allowed
to operate a acter weatele upon Tamas Highways, are the twenty~
five Gays that are allowed under Rection 3 included in the total
120 days, as set forth in the definition of a naw-resident thet
are roferred to in the last sentence of Sec. 4, Which allows the
owner or operater of « vehicle in this Mate a pertod sot ex-
ceeding 120 cays from date of iswaunce of Gald certificate to
operate «aid vebicleT*

| “Won-vesident” is defined by Section 1 of Article S27o as
follews:

‘oar resident’ seana every resident of « etabe or country
other than the Stats of Tezaé whose sajourn in thie State, or
whose cccupation, of place of aboda, or business in this State,
if eny, covers a tatal period of sot mere then one hundred and
twenty days in the calendar year.“

Gection 3 of the article provides for the temporary regietre~

See oe naerrenicent passenger sare witha 25 Gays efter the same are first
operated in Texes, and Sestion & provides far mvomcbilen Section ©. previ
registration certificate to the owner of the automobile.  dection & provides
in part that “seid certifiente shall entitie the oener on syerenon of onté

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of more than one hundred and tventy days out of the
within the plain wording of the atove-queted defini
Ne tharefare, would lose his son-resident status.

Romorable Melvin Comba, Page 2

If so, Section & is at

But we are of the opinion

Is the effect of Section 4 an authorisation te remain in Texas for

® period longer than one hundred and twenty days
violence with the definition of “non-resident.”

that such is aot the effect.

Tm Texas Jurisprudence, Volume 39, pages B-9-212, it is sata:

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