By: Creighton  S.B. No. 1291
         (In the Senate - Filed March 3, 2017; March 13, 2017, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Transportation;
  April 20, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 9,
  Nays 0; April 20, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to permits for oversize and overweight vehicles in a
  certain county.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 623.252(b), Transportation Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (b)  A permit issued under this subchapter may authorize:
               (1)  the transport of cargo only on the following roads
  in Chambers County:
                     (A)  Farm-to-Market Road 1405 between its
  intersection with Farm-to-Market Road 2354 and its intersection
  with Farm-to-Market Road 565;
                     (B)  [the frontage road of] State Highway 99,
  including the frontage road of State Highway 99 and the portion of
  the frontage road located in the Cedar Crossing Business and
  Industrial Park, other than a tolled segment of State Highway 99,
  between the [its] crossing of State Highway 99 with Cedar Bayou and
  its intersection with Interstate Highway 10[, including the portion
  of the frontage road located in the Cedar Crossing Business and
  Industrial Park];
                     (C)  Farm-to-Market Road 565 from its
  intersection with Farm-to-Market Road 1405 to its intersection with
  State Highway 99; and
                     (D)  Farm-to-Market Road 2354 from its
  intersection with Farm-to-Market Road 1405 northwest approximately
  300 linear feet to the termination of the state-maintained portion
  of the road; and
               (2)  the movement of equipment and commodities weighing
  100,000 pounds or less.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
 
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