By Carona S.B. No. 844
76R4469 DRH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the enforcement of weight limits for motor vehicles by
1-3 weight enforcement officers.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 621.401, Transportation Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 621.401. Definition. In this subchapter, "weight
1-8 enforcement officer" means:
1-9 (1) a license and weight inspector of the Department
1-10 of Public Safety;
1-11 (2) a highway patrol officer;
1-12 (3) a sheriff or sheriff's deputy;
1-13 (4) a municipal police officer in a municipality with
1-14 a population of 50,000 [100,000] or more; or
1-15 (5) a police officer certified under Section 644.101
1-16 [6, Article 6675d, Revised Statutes].
1-17 SECTION 2. Section 621.408, Transportation Code, is amended
1-18 to read as follows:
1-19 Sec. 621.408. Powers of Weight Enforcement Officers. Except
1-20 for the authority granted to a port-of-entry supervisor or
1-21 inspector by Section 621.409, weight enforcement officers have
1-22 exclusive authority:
1-23 (1) to enforce this subchapter in any area of this
1-24 state other than in the territory of a municipality with a
2-1 population of more than 50,000 [100,000]; and
2-2 (2) to enforce all weight limitations for a vehicle on
2-3 a state-maintained public highway.
2-4 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-5 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.