Bill Text: GA SB146 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Public Roads; weights of vehicles and loads; allow a variance for certain vehicles
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-24 - Senate Read and Referred [SB146 Detail]
Download: Georgia-2011-SB146-Introduced.html
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Senate
Bill 146
By:
Senator Williams of the 19th
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Code Section 32-6-26 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating
to the maximum weights for vehicles and loads, so as to allow a variance for
certain vehicles; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective
date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Code
Section 32-6-26 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the
maximum weights for vehicles and loads, is amended by revising subsection (g) as
follows:
"(g)(1)
The weight limitations provided for in this Code section, except the limitation
in subsections (f) and (h) of this Code section, may be exceeded on any public
road within this state which is not an interstate highway, or when making a
pickup or delivery on any public road of a county road system, without a permit
only when the load on any single axle does not exceed 23,000 pounds, the load on
any tandem axle does not exceed 46,000 pounds, and the maximum total gross
weight of the vehicle and load does not exceed 80,000 pounds when:
(A)
Hauling forest products from the forest where cut to the first point of
marketing or processing;
(B)
Hauling live poultry or cotton from a farm to a processing plant;
(C)
Hauling feed from a feed mill to a farm;
(D)
Hauling granite, either block or sawed, or any other naturally occurring raw ore
or mineral for further processing, from the quarry or stockpile area to a
processing plant located in the same or an adjoining county and construction
aggregates hauled to any point, unless otherwise prohibited;
(E)
Hauling solid waste or recovered materials from points of generation to a solid
waste handling facility or other processing facility; or
(F)
Hauling concrete that is in a freshly mixed and unhardened state for delivery to
a customer.
No
lift axle may be used in computing the maximum total gross weight authorized for
any vehicle or load under this paragraph.
(2)
A vehicle which is hauling the products listed in subparagraph (A) or (B) of
paragraph (1) of this subsection or which is hauling any other agricultural or
farm product from a farm to the first point of marketing or processing,
or to a
port, shall be permitted a
5
10
percent variance from the weight limitations in paragraph (1) of this subsection
within a 100 mile radius of the farm or point of origin
or while in
transit to a port. Any person who
violates the load limitations provided for in this paragraph by exceeding the
5
10
percent variance per single axle, tandem axle, or maximum total gross weight
shall be fined on the basis of the weight limitations of paragraph (1) of this
subsection, including the variance allowed by this paragraph.
(3)
A vehicle which is hauling the products listed in subparagraph (C), (D), or (F)
of paragraph (1) of this subsection shall be permitted a 5 percent variance from
the weight limitations in paragraph (1) of this subsection within a 100 mile
radius of the farm or point of origin. Any person who violates the load
limitations provided for in this paragraph by exceeding the 5 percent variance
per single axle, tandem axle, or maximum total gross weight shall be fined on
the basis of the weight limitations of paragraph (1) of this subsection and not
on the basis of the variance allowed by this paragraph.
(4)
Any vehicle carrying a load as authorized in this subsection at night shall be
equipped with lights clearly visible for a distance of not less than 300 feet
from the front and rear of the vehicle."
SECTION
2.
This
Act shall become effective on July 1, 2011.
SECTION
3.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.
