86R13296 AAF-D
By: Bailes, Dean, Clardy, Ashby, Paddie H.B. No. 3161
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the operation of a vehicle transporting equipment used
to load timber.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 623.321(a), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) The department may issue a permit under this subchapter,
as an alternative to a permit issued under Section 623.011,
authorizing a person to operate a vehicle or combination of
vehicles that is being used to transport unrefined timber, wood
chips, or woody biomass or equipment used to load timber on a
vehicle in a county identified as a timber producing county in the
most recent edition of the Texas A&M Forest Service's Harvest
Trends Report as of May 15, 2013, at the weight limits prescribed by
Subsection (b).
SECTION 2. Section 623.323(f), Transportation Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(f) This section does not apply to a vehicle or combination
of vehicles that are being used to transport unrefined timber, wood
chips, or woody biomass or equipment used to load timber on a
vehicle from:
(1) a storage yard to the place of first processing; or
(2) outside this state to a place of first processing
in this state.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.