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Senate Bill 969 |
Senate Author: Seliger |
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Effective: 9-1-09 |
House Sponsor: Jones |
Senate Bill 969 amends a provision of the Transportation Code that exempts from specified length limitations a vehicle or combination of vehicles used to transport a combine that is used in farm custom harvesting operations to limit the current exemption, applicable if the overall length of the vehicle or combination is not longer than 75 feet, to a vehicle traveling on a highway that is part of the national system of interstate and defense highways or the federal aid primary highway system. If the vehicle is not traveling on a highway that is part of such a system, the bill extends the applicable exemption to a vehicle or combination of vehicles the overall length of which is not longer than 81-1/2 feet.