By: Wray (Senate Sponsor - Perry) H.B. No. 3654
(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 9, Nays 0; May 17, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the definition of road machinery 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 Subdivision (5-a) to read as follows:
(5-a) "Road machinery" means a self-propelled vehicle
that:
(A) was originally and permanently designed as
machinery;
(B) is not designed or used primarily to
transport persons or property; and
(C) is only incidentally operated on a highway.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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