By: Carona S.B. No. 844
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the enforcement of weight limits for motor vehicles by
1-2 weight enforcement officers.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 621.401, Transportation Code, is amended
1-5 to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 621.401. Definition. In this subchapter, "weight
1-7 enforcement officer" means:
1-8 (1) a license and weight inspector of the Department
1-9 of Public Safety;
1-10 (2) a highway patrol officer;
1-11 (3) a sheriff or sheriff's deputy;
1-12 (4) a municipal police officer in a municipality with
1-13 a population of 50,000 [100,000] or more; or
1-14 (5) a police officer certified under Section 644.101
1-15 [6, Article 6675d, Revised Statutes].
1-16 SECTION 2. Section 621.408, Transportation Code, is amended
1-17 to read as follows:
1-18 Sec. 621.408. Powers of Weight Enforcement Officers. Except
1-19 for the authority granted to a port-of-entry supervisor or
1-20 inspector by Section 621.409, weight enforcement officers have
1-21 exclusive authority:
1-22 (1) to enforce this subchapter in any area of this
1-23 state other than in the territory of a municipality with a
1-24 population of more than 50,000 [100,000]; and
2-1 (2) to enforce all weight limitations for a vehicle on
2-2 a state-maintained public highway.
2-3 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-4 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.