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Regular Session, 2012 ENROLLED
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 153
BY SENATOR DORSEY-COLOMB
A RESOLUTION
To urge and request the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, public safety services,
to study safety devices for trailers or semitrailers with a gross weight capacity of up
to ten thousand pounds.
WHEREAS, R.S. 32:384(D) requires every trailer and semitrailer with a load
capacity of up to six thousand pounds be equipped with a safety device; and
WHEREAS, the current provision of law also requires the safety devices to be
securely attached to the towing vehicle while the trailer or semitrailer is in motion on a
public road or highway; and
WHEREAS, each safety device is required to be approved by the Department of
Public Safety and Corrections, office of state police, to assure such device meets all of the
necessary requirements of a safety device; and
WHEREAS, Senate Bill No. 406 of the 2012 Regular Session of the Legislature of
Louisiana by Senator Dorsey-Colomb proposed to require all semitrailers and trailers to a
loaded capacity of up to ten thousand pounds newly registered after December 31, 2012, to
be equipped with a safety device approved by the Department of Public Safety and
Corrections, office of state police, and to require each such approved safety device to have
a stamp or permanent label attached which is applicable to the size of the load capacity of
the semitrailer or trailer; and
WHEREAS, Senator Dorsey-Colomb concluded that it was appropriate and
necessary that the subject of Senate Bill No. 406 be studied by the Department of Public
Safety and Corrections, public safety services, relative to safety devices for semitrailers and
trailers with a loaded gross weight capacity of up to ten thousand pounds.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
does hereby urge and request that the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, public
safety services, study safety devices for trailers or semitrailers with a gross weight capacity SR NO. 153 ENROLLED
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of up to ten thousand pounds and report its findings and recommendations in a written report
to the Senate Committee on Transportation, Highways, and Public Works not later than
March 1, 2013.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
deputy secretary of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, public safety services.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE