Untitled Texas Attorney General Opinion ( 1940 )

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEYGENERAL OF TEXAS AUSTIN Banorrblr Norper Qarrimn, Director Depertment of Publlo Safety ~CasipHabry A\lktin, Texas Dsar Sir: Thir will aokn of your reebnt re- quest for our opinion aa he psclrege of s4ot~on 9 oond Lsgialature, otlon 0, V*rnon’a rtnent rendera an ittsn by hrsletaat Attorn4y ng that the wordr *approved, 4 stamped upon the gleer, of the refleotor. ,,,&~yQl44?Nqy$dt of the statute cited reada a8 You @tata that einee the opinion of Hr. Christopher was wrttten, the UPB; of button type reflectora hat beoome prevrlemt end that it would be imooaeible to plaoe the ep- , Honorable Horn=== &rrison, page 2 proval on the glass of this kind of reflector. Under thee4 olro~etaEee you ask whethnr it would b4 permiseIbl4 tor the approval of reflectors to be stemped on th4 metal flange of the refleotor instead of the glass. Since assignment of your opinion request, we have had ooceelon to examine descriptive literature of th4 various types of refleotore and to fnepeot several of them. 80144 manufacturers of button refleotore have enao,eed the glare In frar48 so eubetantIally made It appears~Impoeeible that the glass part be removed, exoept by breaking the glare or destroying th4 frme. If the refleotore otherwise meet the tests of the Texas Highway Departm4nt, we eee no good reason why the foregolng provlelon of the statute would prevent the approval being etaeqed on the metal flan -. rather than on ths glass Itself. The intent of the Pegle- latura was doubtleas to prevent the 8819 and us4 of In- ferior and inadsquete rsfleotore. The proteotion end safe;; of the traveling public wee the paramount oonelderatlon. the glaee be firmly etteched to the metal flango or other -. dsvioe, wu r4apeatfully advlae you that the matter of the plaoa where the words of aporovel er4 to b4 stamped nets within the sound disoratlon of the depertment r4eponslbls for thclr approval, but the words ,indlo ting euoh ap?roval .‘~ ”mus“’t ,b eVinmlylff Sxed *30 soa% part 0# th~~‘reflector. To the extent stat4d., Xr. Chrletophrr’s opinion lo reepaotfully ovsrrulea. Yours very truly ATTORNEI? GENERAL OF TEXAS BeiJamin Voodall /e/ BY BenJamln Yoodrll TM:50 kssletant APPRCVED NOV 1, 1940 Q-erald G. Mann /e/ ATTCBNEY O!WEiAL OF TEXAS APPROVED0PIX;ION CW4ITTEE Byfb:’ NW-B Chairman