By Lucio S.B. No. 934
76R7755 DRH-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the issuance of permits for overweight vehicles in
1-3 certain counties.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 623.214(b), Transportation Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) Fees collected under Subsection (a) shall be used solely
1-8 to provide funds for the payments provided for under Section
1-9 623.213 less administrative costs which shall not exceed 15 [10]
1-10 percent of the fees collected. Such fees shall be deposited in
1-11 State Highway Fund 6.
1-12 SECTION 2. Section 623.215(a), Transportation Code, is
1-13 amended to read as follows:
1-14 (a) A permit issued under this subchapter must include:
1-15 (1) the name of the applicant;
1-16 (2) the date of issuance;
1-17 (3) the signature of the director of the port
1-18 authority;
1-19 (4) a statement of the kind of cargo being transported
1-20 over State Highways [Highway] 48 and 4 between the Gateway
1-21 International Bridge and the entrance to the Port of Brownsville,
1-22 or over State Highways 48 and 4 and United States Highways 77 and
1-23 83 between Veterans International Bridge at Los Tomates and the
1-24 entrance to the Port of Brownsville, the maximum weight and
2-1 dimensions of the equipment, and the kind and weight of each
2-2 commodity to be transported provided the gross weight of such
2-3 equipment and commodities shall not exceed 125,000 pounds;
2-4 (5) a statement of any condition on which the permit
2-5 is issued;
2-6 (6) a statement that the cargo shall be transported
2-7 over the most direct route from the Gateway International Bridge or
2-8 the Veterans International Bridge at Los Tomates to the entrance of
2-9 the Port of Brownsville using State Highways [Highway] 48 and 4 or
2-10 United States Highways 77 and 83;
2-11 (7) the name of the driver of the vehicle in which the
2-12 cargo is to be transported; and
2-13 (8) the location where the cargo was loaded.
2-14 SECTION 3. Section 623.219, Transportation Code, is amended
2-15 to read as follows:
2-16 Sec. 623.219. EXPIRATION. This Act expires March 1, 2005
2-17 [2001].
2-18 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-24 passage, and it is so enacted.