By: Lucio S.B. No. 1465
73R8583 MJW-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the loading of certain vehicles carrying unprocessed
1-3 grain on public highways.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 5, Chapter 42, General Laws, Acts of the
1-6 41st Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929 (Article 6701d-11,
1-7 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by amending Subsection
1-8 (b), as amended by Section 2, Chapter 488, and Section 5, Chapter
1-9 1052, Acts of the 71st Legislature, Regular Session, 1989, and by
1-10 adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows:
1-11 (b) No person, firm, corporation, company, co-partnership,
1-12 or association shall load, or cause to be loaded, a vehicle for
1-13 operation on the public highways of this state which exceeds the
1-14 weight limitations for operation of that vehicle. Intent to
1-15 violate those limitations is presumed if the loaded vehicle exceeds
1-16 the applicable weight limitation for operation of that vehicle.
1-17 Except as provided by Subsection (d) of this section, this <This>
1-18 subsection does not apply to the loading or causing to be loaded of
1-19 an agricultural or a forestry commodity prior to such point in the
1-20 processing of the commodity which changes the natural state of the
1-21 commodity.
1-22 (d) The exemption provided by Subsection (b) of this section
1-23 for loading or causing to be loaded unprocessed agricultural and
1-24 forestry commodities does not apply to the loading or causing to be
2-1 loaded of unprocessed grain in a county adjacent to the Republic of
2-2 Mexico.
2-3 (e) In this section, "grain" has the meaning assigned by
2-4 Section 14.001, Agriculture Code.
2-5 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.