Bill Text: TX HB2778 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to permits for oversize and overweight vehicles in a certain county.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-08 - Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar [HB2778 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB2778-Comm_Sub.html

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85R25892 AAF-F
By: Faircloth H.B. No. 2778
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2778:
By: Morrison C.S.H.B. No. 2778

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to permits for oversize and overweight vehicles in a
certain county.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 623.252(b), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(b) A permit issued under this subchapter may authorize:
(1) the transport of cargo only on the following roads
in Chambers County:
(A) Farm-to-Market Road 1405 between its
intersection with Farm-to-Market Road 2354 and its intersection
with Farm-to-Market Road 565;
(B) [the frontage road of] State Highway 99,
including the frontage road of State Highway 99 but excluding any
portion of the highway for which payment of a toll is required,
between its crossing with Cedar Bayou and its intersection with
Interstate Highway 10[, including the portion of the frontage road
located in the Cedar Crossing Business and Industrial Park];
(C) Farm-to-Market Road 565 from its
intersection with Farm-to-Market Road 1405 to its intersection with
State Highway 99; and
(D) Farm-to-Market Road 2354 from its
intersection with Farm-to-Market Road 1405 northwest approximately
300 linear feet to the termination of the state-maintained portion
of the road; and
(2) the movement of equipment and commodities weighing
100,000 pounds or less.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.