Sec. 504.2525.  SUMMARY LICENSE, REGISTRATION, OR CERTIFICATION SUSPENSION.  (a)  The department shall suspend the license, registration, or certification issued by the department of a license, registration, or certification holder if the department receives written notice from the Department of Public Safety or another law enforcement agency that the license, registration, or certification holder has been charged, indicted, placed on deferred adjudication, community supervision, or probation, or convicted of an offense described by Section 504.1525.
(b)  To initiate a proceeding to take action under Subsection (a), the department must serve notice on the license, registration, or certification holder.  The notice must:
(1)  state the grounds for summary suspension; and
(2)  be personally served on the license, registration, or certification holder or sent to the license, registration, or certification holder by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, to the license, registration, or certification holder's mailing address as it appears in the department's records.
(c)  The suspension is effective at the time notice is served.  The license, registration, or certification holder is entitled to appeal the suspension as provided by Section 504.255.
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1107, Sec. 6, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.
Amended by: 
Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1373 (S.B. 155), Sec. 17, eff. September 1, 2007.