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Regular Session, 2010
SENATE BILL NO. 775
BY SENATOR CHABERT
ROADS/HIGHWAYS. Deletes the exemption from bridge tolls for publicly owned
vehicles. (gov sig)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 48:972, relative to bridges; provides relative to free passage for2
publicly owned vehicles over toll bridges; and to provide for related matters.3
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:4
Section 1. R.S. 48:972 is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows: 5
ยง972. Exemption from bridge tolls; certain public vehicles 6
Any publicly owned vehicles and any vehicle used in connection with or in7
furtherance of the mass transportation of the general public which is owned and8
operated by any person, firm, or corporation engaged in a publicly subsidized transit9
business or which is owned by a public body, shall have free and unhampered10
passage at all times over toll bridges which cross any river or stream in this state.11
Section 2. This Act shall become effective upon signature by the governor or, if not12
signed by the governor, upon expiration of the time for bills to become law without signature13
by the governor, as provided by Article III, Section 18 of the Constitution of Louisiana. If14
vetoed by the governor and subsequently approved by the legislature, this Act shall become15
effective on the day following such approval.16 SB NO. 775
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Sharon F. Lyles.
DIGEST
Chabert (SB 775)
Present law provides free and unhampered passage at all times over toll bridges which cross
any river or stream in this state to any publicly owned vehicles and any vehicle used in
connection with or in furtherance of the mass transportation of the general public which is
owned and operated by a publicly subsidized transit business or by a public body.
Proposed law removes free passage for any publicly owned vehicle over toll bridges.
Effective upon signature of the governor or lapse of time for gubernatorial action.
(Amends R.S. 48:972)