1-1 By: Duncan S.B. No. 492
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 31, 2001; February 1, 2001,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 March 7, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9,
1-5 Nays 0; March 7, 2001, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to load and weight limits on certain bridges.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 623.011, Transportation
1-11 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-12 (c) A permit issued under this section:
1-13 (1) is valid for one year; and
1-14 (2) must be carried in the vehicle for which it is
1-15 issued[; and]
1-16 [(3) does not authorize the operation on the national
1-17 system of interstate and defense highways in this state of vehicles
1-18 with a weight greater than authorized by federal law].
1-19 SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 623, Transportation Code,
1-20 is amended by adding Section 623.0113 to read as follows:
1-21 Sec. 623.0113. ROUTE RESTRICTIONS; EXCEPTION. (a) A permit
1-22 issued under Section 623.011 does not authorize the operation of
1-23 the vehicle for which the permit is issued on:
1-24 (1) the national system of interstate and defense
1-25 highways in this state if the weight of the vehicle is greater than
1-26 authorized by federal law; or
1-27 (2) a bridge for which a maximum weight and load limit
1-28 have been established and posted by the Texas Transportation
1-29 Commission under Section 621.102 or the commissioners court of a
1-30 county under Section 621.301, if the gross weight of the vehicle
1-31 and load or the axles and wheel loads are greater than the limits
1-32 established and posted under those sections.
1-33 (b) A restriction under Subsection (a)(2) does not apply if
1-34 the bridge is along the only public highway or road that the
1-35 vehicle for which the permit is issued can use to travel from its
1-36 point of origin to its destination.
1-37 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-38 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-39 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
1-40 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-41 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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