1-1 By: Lucio S.B. No. 934
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 5, 1999; March 8, 1999, read
1-3 first time and referred to Special Committee on Border Affairs;
1-4 March 15, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5,
1-5 Nays 0; March 15, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the issuance of permits for overweight vehicles in
1-9 certain counties.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 623.214, Transportation
1-12 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (b) Fees collected under Subsection (a) shall be used solely
1-14 to provide funds for the payments provided for under Section
1-15 623.213 less administrative costs which shall not exceed 15 [10]
1-16 percent of the fees collected. Such fees shall be deposited in
1-17 State Highway Fund 6.
1-18 SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Section 623.215, Transportation
1-19 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-20 (a) A permit issued under this subchapter must include:
1-21 (1) the name of the applicant;
1-22 (2) the date of issuance;
1-23 (3) the signature of the director of the port
1-24 authority;
1-25 (4) a statement of the kind of cargo being transported
1-26 over State Highways [Highway] 48 and 4 between the Gateway
1-27 International Bridge and the entrance to the Port of Brownsville,
1-28 or over State Highways 48 and 4 and United States Highways 77 and
1-29 83 between Veterans International Bridge at Los Tomates and the
1-30 entrance to the Port of Brownsville, the maximum weight and
1-31 dimensions of the equipment, and the kind and weight of each
1-32 commodity to be transported provided the gross weight of such
1-33 equipment and commodities shall not exceed 125,000 pounds;
1-34 (5) a statement of any condition on which the permit
1-35 is issued;
1-36 (6) a statement that the cargo shall be transported
1-37 over the most direct route from the Gateway International Bridge or
1-38 the Veterans International Bridge at Los Tomates to the entrance of
1-39 the Port of Brownsville using State Highways [Highway] 48 and 4 or
1-40 United States Highways 77 and 83;
1-41 (7) the name of the driver of the vehicle in which the
1-42 cargo is to be transported; and
1-43 (8) the location where the cargo was loaded.
1-44 SECTION 3. Section 623.219, Transportation Code, is amended
1-45 to read as follows:
1-46 Sec. 623.219. EXPIRATION. This Act expires March 1, 2005
1-47 [2001].
1-48 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-49 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-50 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-51 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-52 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-53 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-54 passage, and it is so enacted.
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