By: Lucio S.B. No. 934
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the issuance of permits for overweight vehicles in
1-2 certain counties.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 623.214, Transportation
1-5 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (b) Fees collected under Subsection (a) shall be used solely
1-7 to provide funds for the payments provided for under Section
1-8 623.213 less administrative costs which shall not exceed 15 [10]
1-9 percent of the fees collected. Such fees shall be deposited in
1-10 State Highway Fund 6.
1-11 SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Section 623.215, Transportation
1-12 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (a) A permit issued under this subchapter must include:
1-14 (1) the name of the applicant;
1-15 (2) the date of issuance;
1-16 (3) the signature of the director of the port
1-17 authority;
1-18 (4) a statement of the kind of cargo being transported
1-19 over State Highways [Highway] 48 and 4 between the Gateway
1-20 International Bridge and the entrance to the Port of Brownsville,
1-21 or over State Highways 48 and 4 and United States Highways 77 and
1-22 83 between Veterans International Bridge at Los Tomates and the
1-23 entrance to the Port of Brownsville, the maximum weight and
1-24 dimensions of the equipment, and the kind and weight of each
2-1 commodity to be transported provided the gross weight of such
2-2 equipment and commodities shall not exceed 125,000 pounds;
2-3 (5) a statement of any condition on which the permit
2-4 is issued;
2-5 (6) a statement that the cargo shall be transported
2-6 over the most direct route from the Gateway International Bridge or
2-7 the Veterans International Bridge at Los Tomates to the entrance of
2-8 the Port of Brownsville using State Highways [Highway] 48 and 4 or
2-9 United States Highways 77 and 83;
2-10 (7) the name of the driver of the vehicle in which the
2-11 cargo is to be transported; and
2-12 (8) the location where the cargo was loaded.
2-13 SECTION 3. Section 623.219, Transportation Code, is amended
2-14 to read as follows:
2-15 Sec. 623.219. EXPIRATION. This Act expires March 1, 2005
2-16 [2001].
2-17 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-23 passage, and it is so enacted.