Sec. 54.208. EFFECTIVE DATE OF RULES. The penalty for violation of a rule is not effective and enforceable until five days after the publication of the notice. Five days after the publication, the published rule shall be in effect and ignorance of it is not a defense to a prosecution for the enforcement of the penalty.

Added by Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 788, ch. 84, Sec. 1.