Motor vehicle weight restrictions-exceptions.

WORKING DRAFT
2013
STATE OF
WYOMING
13LSO-0422.E1

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0205

Motor vehicle weight restrictions-exceptions.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Northrup, Larsen and Paxton and Senator(s) Hicks and Meier

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; expanding weight limits for specified load types;
providing rulemaking authority as specified;
and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1
. W.S. 31
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804(b), (p) and by creating a new subsection (u) is amended to read:

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804.

Permits for and certain highways to carry, overweight and oversize vehicles; government vehicles
.

(b)

The director or his authorized representative may issue a permit
exclusive of interstate highways
for hauling of forest products
, sugar beets,

or
gravel
, livestock and agricultural products
hauled in
trucks
vehicles

that
cannot
be weighed at point of loading at a weight which is not more than ten percent (10%) in excess of allowable axle weights and not more than five thousand (5,000) pounds in excess of gross weights allowed under gross weight Table I. The permit fee is fifteen dollars ($15.00) for a single trip permit not to exceed ninety-six (96) continuous hours. The permit fee is fifty dollars ($50.00) for any ninety (90) continuous days. If a
truck

vehicle
hauling forest products
, sugar beets,

or
gravel
, livestock or agricultural products

exceeds the legal weight limitations, the
truck
vehicle

shall be allowed to unload at its point of destination in this state if the point of destination is within one (1) mile of the
truck's
vehicle's

location when the illegal weight limitation was determined, unless an immediate threat to public safety exists. No penalty for the first violation shall be imposed, but any subsequent violation shall be subject to the penalty provisions of W.S. 31
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805.

Vehicles utilizing the allowances of this subsection shall be operated exclusive of interstate highways and loads shall either originate or end within Wyoming.

(p)

In determining
permit
weights of vehicles or combinations of vehicles, a variable load suspension axle
may be counted as load bearing, provided that the variable load suspension axle that is capable of producing a distribution of weight to prevent an axle or axle group from exceeding maximum allowable weights in accordance with department rules and regulations.

(u)

The director or his authorized representative may allow by rule for not more than ninety (90) continuous days
the axle weight and gross weight restrictions in this article
to
be increased without a
fee
for persons hauling livestock

to a change of pasture or for other reasons
, or hauling agricultural products while engaged in the process of harvesting, in
vehicles
that cannot be weighed at
the point of loading and which weigh not more than ten percent (10%) in excess of otherwise allowable axle weight and

not more than five thousand (5,000) pounds in excess of gross weights allowed under gross weight Table I
. If a
vehicle
hauling livestock or agricultural products
directly from the point of loading
exceeds the weight limitations allowed by this subsection, the
vehicle
shall be allowed to unload at its point of destination in this state if the point of destination is within
ten
(10) miles
of the
vehicle's
location when the illegal weight limitation was determined, unless an immediate threat to public safety exists. No
penalty for the first violation shall be imposed, but any subsequent violation shall be subject to the penalty provisions of W.S. 31
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805.

Vehicles utilizing the allowances of this subsection shall be operated exclusive of interstate highways and loads shall either originate or end within Wyoming.

Section 2.

This act is effective July 1, 2013.

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