By: Creighton S.B. No. 1291
(In the Senate - Filed March 3, 2017; March 13, 2017, read
first time and referred to Committee on Transportation;
April 20, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9,
Nays 0; April 20, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to permits for oversize and overweight vehicles in a
certain county.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 623.252(b), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(b) A permit issued under this subchapter may authorize:
(1) the transport of cargo only on the following roads
in Chambers County:
(A) Farm-to-Market Road 1405 between its
intersection with Farm-to-Market Road 2354 and its intersection
with Farm-to-Market Road 565;
(B) [the frontage road of] State Highway 99,
including the frontage road of State Highway 99 and the portion of
the frontage road located in the Cedar Crossing Business and
Industrial Park, other than a tolled segment of State Highway 99,
between the [its] crossing of State Highway 99 with Cedar Bayou and
its intersection with Interstate Highway 10[, including the portion
of the frontage road located in the Cedar Crossing Business and
Industrial Park];
(C) Farm-to-Market Road 565 from its
intersection with Farm-to-Market Road 1405 to its intersection with
State Highway 99; and
(D) Farm-to-Market Road 2354 from its
intersection with Farm-to-Market Road 1405 northwest approximately
300 linear feet to the termination of the state-maintained portion
of the road; and
(2) the movement of equipment and commodities weighing
100,000 pounds or less.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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