Texas Administrative Code

Texas Administrative Code

TITLE 37	PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONS
PART 1	TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
CHAPTER 15	DRIVER LICENSE RULES
SUBCHAPTER C	EXAMINATION REQUIREMENTS
RULE §15.54	Vehicle Inspection

The department inspects vehicles prior to skills exams to determine if such vehicle meets the requirements of law and is safe to operate on a public street or highway.

(1) Registration of vehicles.

(A) Texas law does not require the license of the driver and the registration of the vehicle to be from the same state.

(B) The vehicle used for the skills exam must have a current and valid registration.

(2) General.

(A) No skills exam will be performed in any vehicle where there is no seat for the examiner to ride on.

(B) No skills exam will be performed in any vehicle in which the door next to the examiner's seat cannot be safely opened from the inside and the outside.

(C) No skills exam will be performed in any vehicle that the department has determined to be unsafe to operate on a roadway regardless of the status of the current vehicle inspection.

(D) Only the applicant and Department of Public Safety personnel are allowed to be in the vehicle during the skills exam. Exceptions may be made when an interpreter is actually needed by the applicant and the examiner, or in the case of a motorcycle examination when the applicant is required to furnish a vehicle and accompanying driver.

Source Note: The provisions of this §15.54 adopted to be effective January 1, 1976; amended to be effective May 23, 1980, 5 TexReg 1795; amended to be effective March 31, 1982, 7 TexReg 1180; amended to be effective January 29, 1985, 10 TexReg 173; amended to be effective July 27, 1990, 15 TexReg 4028; amended to be effective September 1, 1992, 17 TexReg 5673; amended to be effective December 13, 2009, 34 TexReg 8786; amended to be effective September 22, 2015, 40 TexReg 6354