basis of the request for declaratory judgment.” LSRC asserts that Texas Insurance Code section 4102.207 makes contracts with unlicensed public insurance adjusters merely voidable, not void, thereby purportedly defeating any claim for a declaratory judgment that the contracts are void. Under the Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act, a person interested under a written contract may have determined a question of construction or validity arising under the contract and obtain a declaration of rights. See Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Ann. § 87.004 (West 2015). The law is well-settled that a contract to fulfill an obligation that cannot be performed without violating the law contravenes public policy and is void. See Lewis v. Davis, 145 Tex. 468 . Civ. App.—Houston [1st Dist.] 1979, no writ) (<HOLDING>). The rationale behind this rule—that courts
holding that probable cause existed to arrest for driving on a suspended license under state law holding motorist entitled to hearing before taking his license under statute that required loss of license if uninsured driver involved in an accident holding contract for driving services void and illegal because driver did not have chauffeurs license and consequently performance of contract would violate law re quiring chauffeurs license which was enacted for purpose of public safety holding that possession of a drivers license is irrelevant to the offense of failing to present a license which is completed by failing to present the license when requested to do so by an officer recognizing validity of retroactive license that memorialized grant of oral license