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:
1-14 (A) 100,000 or more; or
1-15 (B) 74,000 or more in a county with a population
1-16 of more than 1.5 million; or
1-17 (5) a police officer certified under Section 644.101
1-18 [6, Article 6675d, Revised Statutes].
1-19 SECTION 2. Section 621.408, Transportation Code, is amended
1-20 to read as follows:
1-21 Sec. 621.408. Powers of Weight Enforcement Officers. Except
1-22 for the authority granted to a port-of-entry supervisor or
1-23 inspector by Section 621.409, weight enforcement officers have
1-24 exclusive authority:
2-1 (1) to enforce this subchapter in any area of this
2-2 state other than in the territory of a municipality with a
2-3 population of more than:
2-4 (A) 100,000; or
2-5 (B) 74,000 in a county with a population of more
2-6 than 1.5 million; and
2-7 (2) to enforce all weight limitations for a vehicle on
2-8 a state-maintained public highway.
2-9 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-10 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 844 passed the Senate on
March 31, 1999, by a viva-voce vote; and that the Senate concurred
in House amendment on May 29, 1999, by a viva-voce vote.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 844 passed the House, with
amendment, on May 25, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor