Sec. 51.406.  STAGGERED RENEWAL OF LICENSES.  The commission by rule may adopt a system under which licenses expire on various dates during the year.  For the year in which the license expiration date is changed, the department shall prorate license fees on a monthly basis so that each license holder pays only that portion of the license fee that is allocable to the number of months during which the license is valid.  On renewal of the license on the new expiration date, the total license renewal fee is payable.
Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.  Renumbered from Occupations Code, Sec. 51.205 and amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 816, Sec. 1.020, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.