No. V-0028 (1947).

Case DateFebruary 10, 1947
CourtTexas
Texas Attorney General Opinions 1947. No. V-0028 (1947). 1February 10, 1947Honorable Arthur B. KnickerbockerThe Adjutant General of TexasAustin, TexasOpinion No. V-28Re: Authority of the Adjutant General of Texas to operate State owned motor vehicles without identifying marks and license plates.Dear Sir:Your request for an opinion concerning the above subject has been received. From your letter, we quote:
"An opinion is requested as to whether the Adjutant General is authorized, under the existing laws, to operate such State-owned vehicles as may be expected to be required for use in areas of unrest, without the identifying markings and signs required by State law to be displayed on State-owned motor vehicles, and whether the Adjutant General has the authority to receive from the Highway Department license plates for such vehicles, without the identifying markings normally provided for State-owned meter equipment."
We are met at the outset with Article 821 of Vermon's Annotated Penal Code, which provides:
"There shall be printed upon each side of every automobile, truck or other meter vehicle owned by the State of Texas the word 'Texas' followed in letters of not less than two (2)" inches high by the title of the department, bureau, board, commission or official having the custody of such car, and such inscription shall be in a color sufficiently different from the body of the car so that the lettering shall be plainly legible at a distance of not less than one hundred (100) feet, and the official having control thereof shall have such
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wording placed thereon as prescribed herein, and whoever drives any automobile, truck or other motor vehicle belonging to the State upon the streets of any town or city or upon a public highway without such inscription printed thereon shall be fined not less than Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) nor more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00)." (Acts 1921, p. 122, as amended Acts 1931, 42nd Leg., p. 373, ch. 219, $1.)
In construing this Article, we are guided by the terms of Article 7 of Vernon's Annotated Penal Code, which provides:
"This code and every other law upon the subject of crime which may be enacted shall be construed according to the plain import of the language in which it is written, without regard to the distinction usually made between the construction of panel laws and laws upon
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