Bill Text: TX SB1171 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the operation of certain oversize or overweight vehicles transporting timber, timber products, or forestry equipment on certain public roadways.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective immediately [SB1171 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1171-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the operation of certain oversize or overweight vehicles transporting timber, timber products, or forestry equipment on certain public roadways.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective immediately [SB1171 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1171-Comm_Sub.html
By: Nichols | S.B. No. 1171 | |
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relating to the operation of certain oversize or overweight | ||
vehicles transporting timber, timber products, or forestry | ||
equipment on certain public roadways. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 621.102(d), Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(d) A vehicle operating under a permit issued under Section | ||
623.011, 623.071, 623.094, 623.121, 623.142, 623.181, 623.192, | ||
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of the 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, may operate under | ||
the conditions authorized by the permit over a road for which the | ||
executive director of the Texas Department of Transportation has | ||
set a maximum weight under this section. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 621.301(e), Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(e) A vehicle operating under a permit issued under Section | ||
623.011, 623.071, 623.094, 623.121, 623.142, 623.181, 623.192, | ||
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of the 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, may operate under | ||
the conditions authorized by the permit over a road for which the | ||
commissioners court has set a maximum weight under this section. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 622.901, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 622.901. WIDTH EXCEPTIONS. The width limitation | ||
provided by Section 621.201 does not apply to: | ||
(1) highway building or maintenance machinery that is | ||
traveling: | ||
(A) during daylight on a public highway other | ||
than a highway that is part of the national system of interstate and | ||
defense highways; or | ||
(B) for not more than 50 miles on a highway that | ||
is part of the national system of interstate and defense highways; | ||
(2) a vehicle traveling during daylight on a public | ||
highway other than a highway that is part of the national system of | ||
interstate and defense highways or traveling for not more than 50 | ||
miles on a highway that is part of the national system of interstate | ||
and defense highways if the vehicle is: | ||
(A) a farm tractor or implement of husbandry; or | ||
(B) a vehicle on which a farm tractor, [ |
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implement of husbandry, or equipment used in the harvesting and | ||
production of timber, other than a tractor, [ |
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equipment being transported from one dealer to another, is being | ||
moved by the owner of the tractor, [ |
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by an agent or employee of the owner: | ||
(i) to deliver the tractor, [ |
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or equipment to a new owner; | ||
(ii) to transport the tractor, [ |
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implement, or equipment to or from a mechanic for maintenance or | ||
repair; or | ||
(iii) in the course of an agricultural | ||
forestry operation; | ||
(3) machinery that is used solely for drilling water | ||
wells, including machinery that is a unit or a unit mounted on a | ||
conventional vehicle or chassis, and that is traveling: | ||
(A) during daylight on a public highway other | ||
than a highway that is part of the national system of interstate and | ||
defense highways; or | ||
(B) for not more than 50 miles on a highway that | ||
is part of the national system of interstate and defense highways; | ||
(4) a vehicle owned or operated by a public, private, | ||
or volunteer fire department; | ||
(5) a vehicle registered under Section 502.431; or | ||
(6) a recreational vehicle to which Section 622.903 | ||
applies. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 623.322(a), Transportation Code, as | ||
added by Chapter 1135 (H.B. 2741), Acts of the 83rd Legislature, | ||
Regular Session, 2013, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) To qualify for a permit under this subchapter for a | ||
vehicle or combination of vehicles, a person must: | ||
(1) pay a permit fee of $900 [ |
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(2) designate in the permit application the timber | ||
producing counties described by Section 623.321(a) in which the | ||
vehicle or combination of vehicles will be operated; and | ||
(3) satisfy the security requirement of Section | ||
623.012. | ||
SECTION 5. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is | ||
governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed, | ||
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For | ||
purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the | ||
effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred | ||
before that date. | ||
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |