By Jones of Lubbock H.B. No. 920
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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 622.101, Transportation Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 622.101. VEHICLE TRANSPORTING COTTON OR PROCESSING
1-8 EQUIPMENT. A single motor vehicle used exclusively to transport
1-9 seed cotton modules, cotton, or equipment used to transport or
1-10 process cotton, including a burr spreader, may not be operated on a
1-11 highway or road if the vehicle is:
1-12 (1) wider than 10 [nine] feet and the highway has not
1-13 been designated by the commission under Section 621.202 if the
1-14 vehicle is registered under Section 502.277;
1-15 (2) longer than 48 feet; or
1-16 (3) higher than 14 feet 6 inches.
1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.