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Honorable R. C. Slagle, Jr., page 2 0-2065-A
change of ownership by registering automo-
bile in buyer's name without the prescribed
bill of sale properly executed."
Your request presents two questions:
First, whether or not Texas registration of a car
is necessAry when .Wexas automobile dealer who also operates
agencies in Oklahoma makes a trade for an Oklahoma car in
this State, and immediately thereafter removes the car to
Oklahoma for the purpose of re-sale. We assume that the car
in question will be brought into Texas by its non-resident
owner.
Second, whether or not an endorsed Oklahoma Certi-
ficate of Title is alone sufftiient evidence of sale and
transfer of ownership in order that a county tax collector
may legally acknowledge such change for the purpose of texas
registration of the automobile in the buyer's name without
the necessity of a properly executed bill of sale.
Article 6675a-2, Vernon's Annotated Civil Statutes,
provides for the registration of each motor vehicle used or
to be used upon the public highways of this State. Applica-
tion for registration is to be made to the County Tax Col-
lector of the County in which the applicant resides. To this
requirement of sggg$tration are appended certain exceptions.
One such exemption from registration is that owners of certain
farm tractors, farm trailers, farm semi-trailers, and imple-
ments of husbandry, operated or moved temporarily upon the
highways ape not required to register such vehicles. Another
exemption from registration may be found in Article 827b,
Vernon's Annotated Penal Code, which contains provisions with
respect to the registration of motor vehicles owned by non-
residents and operated upon the highways of this State. Sec-
tion 5 of this Article4contains this significant sentence:
"And provided, further, that any non-
resident owner of a privately owned motor
vehicle may be permitted to make an occasional
trip into this State with such vehicle under
the privileges of this Act without obtaining
such temporary registration certificate."
An "occasional trip" is defined in Section 1 of
Article 827b to mean "not to exceed five trips into this
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Texas. Attorney-General's Office. Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-2065A, text, April 1, 1940; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth259266/m1/2/?rotate=90: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.