By Black H.B. No. 1896
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the authority of the Texas Transportation Commission to
1-3 provide for agreements with other states for the issuance of
1-4 permits to operate or transport certain vehicles on highways in
1-5 this state.
1-6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-7 SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS. In this Act:
1-8 (1) "Commission" means the Texas Transportation
1-9 Commission.
1-10 (2) "Department" means the Texas Department of
1-11 Transportation.
1-12 (3) "Director" means the executive director of the
1-13 Texas Department of Transportation.
1-14 (4) "Permit" means:
1-15 (A) a permit issued by the department to the
1-16 owner or operator of a vehicle or combination of vehicles that
1-17 authorizes the operation or transportation on a highway in this
1-18 state of a vehicle or combination of vehicles that exceeds the
1-19 weight or size limits allowed by this state; or
1-20 (B) a permit issued by the proper authority in
1-21 another state to the owner or operator of a vehicle or combination
1-22 of vehicles that authorizes the operation or transportation on a
1-23 highway of that state of a vehicle or combination of vehicles that
2-1 exceeds the weight or size limits allowed by that state.
2-2 SECTION 2. AGREEMENTS WITH OTHER JURISDICTIONS. The
2-3 commission by rule may authorize the director to enter into an
2-4 agreement with the proper authority of another state that
2-5 authorizes that authority to issue a permit on behalf of the
2-6 department and authorizes the department to issue a permit on
2-7 behalf of the proper authority of the other state.
2-8 SECTION 3. RULES OF DEPARTMENT. The department may adopt
2-9 rules to administer this Act.
2-10 SECTION 4. PERMIT FEES. (a) Permit fees collected by the
2-11 department for another state under an agreement with another state
2-12 under this Act shall be remitted to the state treasurer for deposit
2-13 to the credit of an account in the general revenue fund to be known
2-14 as the permit distributive account.
2-15 (b) The state treasurer shall distribute money in the
2-16 account only to the proper authorities of other states and only as
2-17 directed by the department.
2-18 SECTION 5. ADMINISTRATIVE FEES. (a) The department by rule
2-19 may establish fees for the administration of this Act.
2-20 (b) Administrative fees authorized by Subsection (a) of this
2-21 section may not exceed the amount that is sufficient, when added to
2-22 the other fees collected by the department, to recover the actual
2-23 cost to the department of administering this Act.
2-24 (c) Administrative fees collected by the department under
2-25 this section shall be remitted to the state treasurer for deposit
3-1 in the state highway fund and may be appropriated only to the
3-2 department for the administration of this Act.
3-3 SECTION 6. VALIDITY OF PERMIT ISSUED BY PROPER AUTHORITY IN
3-4 ANOTHER STATE. (a) A permit issued by the proper authority in
3-5 another state under an agreement entered into by the director and
3-6 that authority under this Act has the same validity in this state
3-7 as a permit issued by the department.
3-8 (b) The holder of a permit issued by the proper authority in
3-9 another state under this Act is subject to all applicable laws of
3-10 this state and all applicable rules of the department.
3-11 SECTION 7. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act takes effect September
3-12 1, 1993.
3-13 SECTION 8. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation
3-14 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.