Bill Text: TX HB3087 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the definitions of highway maintenance and service vehicles for purposes of certain provisions governing vehicle equipment.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB3087 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3087-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the definitions of highway maintenance and service vehicles for purposes of certain provisions governing vehicle equipment.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB3087 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3087-Comm_Sub.html
By: Morrison (Senate Sponsor - Nichols) | H.B. No. 3087 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 2017; | ||
May 10, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Transportation; May 17, 2017, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 17, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the definitions of highway maintenance and service | ||
vehicles for purposes of certain provisions governing vehicle | ||
equipment. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 547.001, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
by adding Subdivisions (2-b) and (6-a) to read as follows: | ||
(2-b) "Highway maintenance vehicle" means a highway or | ||
traffic maintenance vehicle designated by the Texas Department of | ||
Transportation. The term includes equipment for: | ||
(A) road maintenance, including: | ||
(i) equipment for snow removal, line | ||
striping, skid resistance testing, sweeping, and spraying; | ||
(ii) aerial platform lift machines; and | ||
(iii) road profiler machines; and | ||
(B) off-road use, including motor graders, road | ||
rollers, excavators, pneumatic tire equipment, movers, and | ||
tractors. | ||
(6-a) "Service vehicle" means a highway or traffic | ||
maintenance vehicle that: | ||
(A) is owned and operated on a highway by or for a | ||
governmental agency and performs a function requiring the use of a | ||
lamp or illuminating device in accordance with the standards and | ||
specifications adopted under Section 547.105; or | ||
(B) has a public service function, including | ||
public utility vehicles, tow trucks, and any vehicle designated as | ||
a service vehicle by the Texas Department of Transportation or as an | ||
escort flag vehicle under Section 623.099. | ||
SECTION 2. The heading to Section 547.105, Transportation | ||
Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 547.105. MAINTENANCE AND SERVICE VEHICLE [ |
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LIGHTING STANDARDS. | ||
SECTION 3. Sections 547.105(a) and (b), Transportation | ||
Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The Texas Department of Transportation shall adopt | ||
standards and specifications that: | ||
(1) apply to lamps on highway maintenance and service | ||
vehicles [ |
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(2) correlate with and conform as closely as possible | ||
to standards and specifications approved by the American | ||
Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. | ||
(b) The Texas Department of Transportation may adopt | ||
standards and specifications for lighting that permit the use of | ||
flashing lights for identification purposes on highway maintenance | ||
and service vehicles [ |
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SECTION 4. Section 547.305(e), Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(e) A person may not operate a highway maintenance or | ||
service vehicle [ |
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that is not equipped with lamps or that does not display lighted | ||
lamps as required by the standards and specifications adopted by | ||
the Texas Department of Transportation. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
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