Bill Text: HI HB1107 | 2023 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Commercial Motor Vehicle Weight Limits.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-04-20 - Act 026, 04/19/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1126). [HB1107 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2023-HB1107-Amended.html
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THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2023 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE WEIGHT LIMITS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 291-35,
Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§291-35 Gross weight, axle, and wheel loads. No motor vehicle or other power vehicle
or combination of those vehicles equipped wholly with pneumatic tires shall be
operated or moved upon any public road, street, or highway within the State if
the vehicle or combination of vehicles has a total gross weight (including
vehicle and load), an axle load, or a wheel load in excess of the limits set
forth in this section; provided that the maximum gross weight, axle loads, and
wheel loads allowed under this section shall be inapplicable when its
application would adversely affect the receipt of federal funds for highway
purposes; [and] provided further that no vehicle or combination of
vehicles shall be operated on or moved over any bridge or other highway
structure if the total gross weight, including vehicle and load, exceeds the
posted maximum gross load limitation for the bridge or other highway structure.
(1) The total gross weight, in pounds, imposed on any public road, street, or highway within the State by any group of two or more consecutive axles, on a vehicle or combination of vehicles shall not exceed the following when the distance between the first and last axles of the group under consideration is:
(A) Forty
inches or less, the weight imposed shall not exceed [twenty-two thousand
five hundred] twenty thousand pounds; and
(B) More
than forty inches but [not] no more than [eight feet,] ninety-six
inches, the weight imposed shall not exceed thirty-four thousand
pounds. This grouping of two consecutive
axles shall be known as tandem axle.
(2) The
total gross weight, in pounds, imposed on [interstate highways] any
public road, street, or highway within the State by any group of two or
more consecutive axles, on a vehicle or combination of vehicles shall not
exceed that resulting from application of the formula:
W = 500 (LN/(N-1) + 12N + 36)
when the distance between the first
and last axles of the group under consideration is over [eight feet] ninety-six
inches and where
W = maximum weight in pounds
carried on any group of two or more axles computed to the nearest five hundred
pounds,
L = Distance in feet between the
extremes of any group
of two or more consecutive axles, to the nearest foot, and
N = Number of axles in the group
under consideration;
provided that two consecutive sets of
tandem axles may carry a gross load of thirty-four thousand pounds each
providing the overall distance between the first and last axles of [such]
the consecutive sets of tandem axles is thirty-six feet or more and
provided also that the overall gross weight does not exceed eighty thousand
pounds.
[(3) The
total gross weight, in pounds, imposed on any public road, street, or
highway, other than interstate highways, within the State by a vehicle or
combination of vehicles shall not exceed that determined by the formula:
W = 900 (L + 40)
when the distance between
the first and last axles of the group under consideration is over eight feet
and where W = maximum weight in pounds carried on any group of two or more
axles computed to the nearest five hundred pounds and
L = Distance in feet between the
extremes of any group of two or more consecutive axles, to the nearest foot;
provided
also that the overall gross weight does not exceed eighty-eight thousand
pounds.]
[(4)] (3) No vehicle or combination of vehicles shall
be used or operated on any public road, street, or highway within the State[:]
with:
(A) [With
a] A load upon any single or tandem axle or combination of axles that
exceeds the carrying capacity of the axles specified by the manufacturer; or
(B) [With
a] A total weight in excess of its designed capacity as indicated by
its designed gross vehicle weights or gross combination weights.
[(5)] (4) The total gross weight imposed upon the
public road, street, or highway by any single axle shall not exceed [twenty-two
thousand five hundred] twenty thousand pounds. For the purpose of this section, axles placed
in the same transverse plane and spaced forty inches or less apart shall be
considered as one axle.
[(6)] (5) The total gross weight imposed upon the
public road, street, or highway by any one wheel, either single or dual
mounting, shall not exceed [11,250] ten thousand pounds.
[(7)] (6) The director of transportation, in the case
of state highways, or the county engineer, in the case of county roads and
streets, may place and maintain signs to limit the gross weight of a vehicle or
combination of vehicles traveling over a bridge or other highway structure in
the interest of public safety when it is determined through engineering
investigation and analysis that the theoretical load carrying capacity of the
bridge or structure is less than the maximum gross vehicular weight allowed by
this chapter. In determining the weight limits
and in posting the weight limit signs, the director or the county engineer need
not comply with rulemaking provisions of chapter 91; provided that if any
person objects to the weight limits, the person may object to the rule as
provided in chapter 91."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Report Title:
Commercial Motor Vehicle; Weight Limits
Description:
Makes state law consistent with federal law regarding legal limits for gross vehicle weight and axle loads traveling on all public roadways. (HD2)
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