1-1 By: Jones of Lubbock (Senate Sponsor - Duncan) H.B. No. 920
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 26, 1997;
1-3 April 2, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on State
1-4 Affairs; May 18, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 13, Nays 0; May 18, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the width of certain vehicles transporting seed cotton
1-9 modules.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 502.277(a), Transportation Code, is
1-12 amended to read as follows:
1-13 (a) The department shall issue specially designed license
1-14 plates for single motor vehicles that:
1-15 (1) are used only to transport seed cotton modules,
1-16 cotton, cotton burrs, or equipment used in transporting or
1-17 processing cotton; and
1-18 (2) are not more than 10 [9] feet in width.
1-19 SECTION 2. Section 622.101, Transportation Code, is amended
1-20 to read as follows:
1-21 Sec. 622.101. VEHICLE TRANSPORTING COTTON OR PROCESSING
1-22 EQUIPMENT. A single motor vehicle used exclusively to transport
1-23 seed cotton modules, cotton, cotton burrs, or equipment used to
1-24 transport or process cotton, including a burr spreader, may not be
1-25 operated on a highway or road if the vehicle is:
1-26 (1) wider than 10 [nine] feet and the highway has not
1-27 been designated by the commission under Section 621.202 if the
1-28 vehicle is registered under Section 502.277;
1-29 (2) longer than 48 feet; or
1-30 (3) higher than 14 feet 6 inches.
1-31 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-32 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-33 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-34 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-35 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-36 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-37 passage, and it is so enacted.
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