1-1 By: Cain S.B. No. 518
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 16, 1999; February 17, 1999,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
1-4 April 6, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 6, 1999,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 518 By: Armbrister
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to licensing requirements for the operation of certain
1-11 farm vehicles and trailers on the highways.
1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13 SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 502.276, Transportation
1-14 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-15 (c) A vehicle that has [An owner who obtains] a
1-16 distinguishing license plate issued under Subsection (b) may be
1-17 operated [operate] temporarily on the highways if the vehicle is:
1-18 (1) a farm trailer or farm semitrailer with a gross
1-19 weight of more than 4,000 pounds but not more than 34,000 pounds
1-20 that is used exclusively to transport:
1-21 (A) [the owner's] seasonally harvested
1-22 agricultural products or [and] livestock from the place of
1-23 production to the place of processing, market, or storage; or
1-24 (B) farm supplies from the place of loading to
1-25 the farm;
1-26 (2) machinery used exclusively for the purpose of
1-27 drilling water wells; or
1-28 (3) construction machinery that is not designed to
1-29 transport persons or property on a public highway.
1-30 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
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.
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