By Jones of Lubbock H.B. No. 920
75R7004 DRH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the width of certain vehicles transporting seed cotton
1-3 modules.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 502.277(a), Transportation Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) The department shall issue specially designed license
1-8 plates for single motor vehicles that:
1-9 (1) are used only to transport seed cotton modules,
1-10 cotton, cotton burrs, or equipment used in transporting or
1-11 processing cotton; and
1-12 (2) are not more than 10 [9] feet in width.
1-13 SECTION 2. Section 622.101, Transportation Code, is amended
1-14 to read as follows:
1-15 Sec. 622.101. VEHICLE TRANSPORTING COTTON OR PROCESSING
1-16 EQUIPMENT. A single motor vehicle used exclusively to transport
1-17 seed cotton modules, cotton, cotton burrs, or equipment used to
1-18 transport or process cotton, including a burr spreader, may not be
1-19 operated on a highway or road if the vehicle is:
1-20 (1) wider than 10 [nine] feet and the highway has not
1-21 been designated by the commission under Section 621.202 if the
1-22 vehicle is registered under Section 502.277;
1-23 (2) longer than 48 feet; or
1-24 (3) higher than 14 feet 6 inches.
2-1 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-6 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-7 passage, and it is so enacted.