Bill Text: TX SB1338 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to an exemption from length limitations for certain vehicles or combinations of vehicles used to transport harvest machines.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-18 - Effective immediately [SB1338 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1338-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to an exemption from length limitations for certain vehicles or combinations of vehicles used to transport harvest machines.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-18 - Effective immediately [SB1338 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1338-Comm_Sub.html
By: Perry | S.B. No. 1338 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 11, 2015; March 18, 2015, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Transportation; | ||
April 23, 2015, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 23, 2015, | ||
sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1338 | By: Huffines |
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relating to an exemption from length limitations for certain | ||
vehicles or combinations of vehicles used to transport harvest | ||
machines. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 622.902, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 622.902. LENGTH EXCEPTIONS. The length limitations | ||
provided by Sections 621.203 to 621.205 do not apply to: | ||
(1) machinery used exclusively for drilling water | ||
wells, including machinery that is itself a unit or that is a unit | ||
mounted on a conventional vehicle or chassis; | ||
(2) a vehicle owned or operated by a public, private, | ||
or volunteer fire department; | ||
(3) a vehicle or combination of vehicles operated | ||
exclusively in the territory of a municipality or to a combination | ||
of vehicles operated by a municipality in a suburb adjoining the | ||
municipality in which the municipality has been using the equipment | ||
or similar equipment in connection with an established service to | ||
the suburb; | ||
(4) a truck-tractor, truck-tractor combination, or | ||
truck-trailer combination exclusively transporting machinery, | ||
materials, and equipment used in the construction, operation, and | ||
maintenance of facilities, including pipelines, that are used for | ||
the discovery, production, and processing of natural gas or | ||
petroleum; | ||
(5) a drive-away saddlemount vehicle transporter | ||
combination or a drive-away saddlemount with fullmount vehicle | ||
transporter combination, as defined by 23 C.F.R. Part 658 or its | ||
successor, if: | ||
(A) the overall length of the combination is not | ||
longer than 97 feet; and | ||
(B) the combination does not have more than three | ||
saddlemounted vehicles if the combination does not include more | ||
than one fullmount vehicle; | ||
(6) the combination of a tow truck and another vehicle | ||
or vehicle combination if: | ||
(A) the other vehicle or vehicle combination | ||
cannot be normally or safely driven or was abandoned on a highway; | ||
and | ||
(B) the tow truck is towing the other vehicle or | ||
vehicle combination directly to the nearest authorized place of | ||
repair, terminal, or destination of unloading; [ |
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(7) a vehicle or combination of vehicles used to | ||
transport a harvest machine [ |
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harvesting operations on a farm if the overall length of the vehicle | ||
or combination is not longer than: | ||
(A) 75 feet if the vehicle is traveling on a | ||
highway that is part of the national system of interstate and | ||
defense highways or the federal aid primary highway system; or | ||
(B) 81-1/2 feet if the vehicle is not traveling | ||
on a highway that is part of the national system of interstate and | ||
defense highways or the federal aid primary highway system; or | ||
(8) a truck-tractor operated in combination with a | ||
semitrailer and trailer or semitrailer and semitrailer if: | ||
(A) the combination is used to transport a | ||
harvest machine that is used in farm custom harvesting operations | ||
on a farm; | ||
(B) the overall length of the combination, | ||
excluding the length of the truck-tractor, is not longer than | ||
81-1/2 feet; and | ||
(C) the combination is traveling on a highway | ||
that: | ||
(i) is not part of the national system of | ||
interstate and defense highways or the federal aid primary highway | ||
system; and | ||
(ii) is located in a county with a | ||
population of less than 50,000. | ||
SECTION 2. 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. | ||
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