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.