By: Nixon S.B. No. 1708 97S0267/1 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the application of axle weight limitations to vehicles 1-2 carrying certain commodities. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 622, Transportation Code, 1-5 is amended by adding Section 622.954 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 622.954. VEHICLES TRANSPORTING UNPROCESSED COMMODITIES. 1-7 The weight limitations of Section 621.101 do not apply to a vehicle 1-8 loaded with an agricultural or a forestry commodity prior to the 1-9 processing of the commodity. 1-10 (b) A vehicle to which this section applies may not be 1-11 operated on the national system of interstate and defense highways 1-12 if the vehicle exceeds the maximum weight authorized by 23 U.S.C. 1-13 Section 127. 1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.