By Hilderbran H.B. No. 3384
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to registration and operation of certain farm vehicles and
1-3 trailers.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 502.163(b), Transportation Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) A commercial motor vehicle may be registered under this
1-8 section despite:
1-9 (1) its use for transporting without charge the owner
1-10 or a member of the owner's family:
1-11 (A) [(1)] to attend church or school;
1-12 (B) [(2)] to visit a doctor for medical
1-13 treatment or supplies; or
1-14 (C) [(3)] for other necessities of the home or
1-15 family; or
1-16 (2) the occasional use of the vehicle without charge
1-17 by a person other than the owner for an activity described by this
1-18 section.
1-19 SECTION 2. Section 502.276(c), Transportation Code, is
1-20 amended to read as follows:
1-21 (c) A vehicle that has [An owner who obtains] a
1-22 distinguishing license plate issued under Subsection (b) may be
1-23 operated [operate] temporarily on the highways if the vehicle is:
1-24 (1) a farm trailer or farm semitrailer with a gross
2-1 weight of more than 4,000 pounds but not more than 34,000 pounds
2-2 that is used exclusively to transport:
2-3 (A) [the owner's] seasonally harvested
2-4 agricultural products or [and] livestock from the place of
2-5 production to the place of processing, market, or storage; or
2-6 (B) farm supplies from the place of loading to
2-7 the farm;
2-8 (2) machinery used exclusively for the purpose of
2-9 drilling water wells; or
2-10 (3) construction machinery that is not designed to
2-11 transport persons or property on a public highway.
2-12 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-18 passage, and it is so enacted.