By: Madla S.B. No. 977 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the maximum extended length of certain loads carried on 1-2 trailers. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 621, Transportation Code, 1-5 is amended by adding Section 621.2061 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 621.2061. EXCEPTION TO MAXIMUM EXTENDED LENGTH OF 1-7 LOAD: CERTAIN MOTOR VEHICLES. Notwithstanding Section 621.206, a 1-8 trailer may carry a load that extends more than four feet beyond 1-9 the rear of the trailer if the load consists of a motor vehicle 1-10 that: 1-11 (1) is designed and intended to be carried at the rear 1-12 of the trailer; 1-13 (2) is used or intended to be used to load or unload a 1-14 commodity on or off the trailer; 1-15 (3) does not extend more than seven feet beyond the 1-16 rear of the trailer; and 1-17 (4) complies with each applicable federal motor 1-18 carrier safety regulation. 1-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.