Bill Text: TX HB1876 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to size and weight limitations for certain vehicles transporting agricultural products and equipment.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-27 - Left pending in committee [HB1876 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1876-Introduced.html
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| By: Martinez | H.B. No. 1876 | |
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| relating to size and weight limitations for certain vehicles | ||
| transporting agricultural products and equipment. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. The heading to Section 622.101, Transportation | ||
| Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 622.101. VEHICLE TRANSPORTING CERTAIN AGRICULTURAL | ||
| PRODUCTS OR PROCESSING EQUIPMENT ASSOCIATED WITH COTTON OR CHILE | ||
| PEPPER MODULES. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter I, Chapter 622, Transportation Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Section 622.102 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 622.102. VEHICLES TRANSPORTING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS | ||
| DURING HARVEST SEASON. (a) This section applies only to a vehicle | ||
| or a combination of vehicles being used to transport agricultural | ||
| products that are in their natural state and are being transported | ||
| not more than 100 miles from the place of production to the place of | ||
| first marketing or first processing. | ||
| (b) A vehicle or combination of vehicles to which this | ||
| section applies may be operated at a weight that exceeds the weight | ||
| limitations of Section 621.101 by not more than 15 percent if the | ||
| vehicle or combination of vehicles is operated during the harvest | ||
| season for the products being transported. | ||
| (c) The department, in coordination with the Department of | ||
| Agriculture, by rule shall determine the harvest season of each | ||
| agricultural product authorized to be transported under this | ||
| section. | ||
| (d) This section does not authorize the operation on the | ||
| national system of interstate and defense highways in this state of | ||
| a vehicle or combination of vehicles of a size or weight greater | ||
| than those permitted under 23 U.S.C. Section 127. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
