Bill Text: TX HB1778 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to weight limitations for certain vehicles transporting agricultural products.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-04 - Referred to Transportation [HB1778 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1778-Introduced.html
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By: Martinez | H.B. No. 1778 |
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relating to weight limitations for certain vehicles transporting | ||
agricultural products. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter I, Chapter 622, Transportation Code, | ||
is amended by adding Section 622.102 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 622.102. VEHICLES TRANSPORTING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS | ||
DURING HARVEST SEASON. (a) This section applies only to a vehicle | ||
or a combination of vehicles being used to transport agricultural | ||
products that are in their natural state and are being transported | ||
not more than 100 miles from the place of production to the place of | ||
first marketing or first processing. | ||
(b) A vehicle or combination of vehicles to which this | ||
section applies may be operated at a weight that exceeds the weight | ||
limitations of Section 621.101 by not more than 10 percent if the | ||
vehicle or combination of vehicles is operated during the harvest | ||
season for the products being transported. | ||
(c) The department, in coordination with the Texas A&M | ||
AgriLife Extension Service, by rule shall determine the harvest | ||
season of each agricultural product authorized to be transported | ||
under this section. | ||
(d) This section does not authorize the operation on the | ||
national system of interstate and defense highways in this state of | ||
a vehicle or combination of vehicles of a weight greater than that | ||
permitted under 23 U.S.C. Section 127. | ||
(e) This section does not authorize the operation of a | ||
vehicle or combination of vehicles in excess of the weight | ||
authorized for a load-zoned bridge in this state. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |