By:  Turner, Bob                                       H.B. No. 644
       73R3113 JD-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the annual registration of certain farm trailers and
    1-3  farm semitrailers.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 2(c), Chapter 88, General Laws, Acts of
    1-6  the 41st Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929 (Article 6675a-2,
    1-7  Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
    1-8        (c)  Owners of farm trailers and farm semitrailers with a
    1-9  gross weight exceeding four thousand (4,000) pounds but not
   1-10  exceeding thirty-four thousand (34,000) <twenty thousand (20,000)>
   1-11  pounds and used solely to transport their own seasonally harvested
   1-12  agricultural products and livestock from the place of production to
   1-13  the place of process, market or storage thereof, or farm supplies
   1-14  from the place of loading to the farm, and owners of machinery used
   1-15  solely for the purpose of drilling water wells or construction
   1-16  machinery (not designed for the transportation of persons or
   1-17  property on the public highways), may operate or move such vehicles
   1-18  temporarily upon the highways without the payment of the regular
   1-19  registration fees as prescribed by law, provided the owners of such
   1-20  farm trailers and semitrailers and machinery secure for a fee of
   1-21  five dollars ($5) for each year or portion thereof a distinguishing
   1-22  license plate from the Texas <State Highway> Department of
   1-23  Transportation through the County Tax Collector upon forms
   1-24  prescribed and furnished by the department.  Such vehicles shall be
    2-1  exempt from the inspection requirements of Sections 140 and 141 of
    2-2  the Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways, as amended (Article
    2-3  6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).
    2-4        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-5  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-6  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-7  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-8  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-9  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-10  passage, and it is so enacted.