By Swinford H.B. No. 1547 74R5248 DWS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the vehicle weight tolerance allowance under a vehicle 1-3 weight permit. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 5B(b), Chapter 42, General Laws, Acts of 1-6 the 41st Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929 (Article 6701d-11, 1-7 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows: 1-8 (b) The permit authorizes the operation of the vehicle at a 1-9 weight that exceeds the allowable axle weight by a tolerance 1-10 allowance of 10 percent and exceeds the allowable gross weight by a 1-11 tolerance allowance of five percent. In the case of a permit 1-12 issued for a truck tractor, the permit also authorizes the 1-13 operation of the truck tractor in combination with one or more 1-14 other vehicles at a weight that exceeds the allowable axle weight 1-15 by a tolerance allowance of 10 percent and exceeds the allowable 1-16 gross weight for such combination of vehicles by a tolerance 1-17 allowance of five percent. A vehicle operating under the permit is 1-18 authorized to exceed the allowable gross weight by the entire five 1-19 percent tolerance allowance regardless of the weight of any one 1-20 axle or tandem axle if no axle or tandem axle exceeds the tolerance 1-21 permitted by this subsection. 1-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-4 passage, and it is so enacted.