Bill Text: TX HB2202 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to requirements for certain farm vehicles when operating on a highway.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-06 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB2202 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2202-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Kacal, González, Springer | H.B. No. 2202 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2202: | |||
By: Springer | C.S.H.B. No. 2202 |
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relating to requirements for certain farm vehicles when operating | ||
on a highway. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 541.201(6), Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(6) "Implement of husbandry" means: | ||
(A) a vehicle, other than a passenger car or | ||
truck, that is designed and adapted for use as a farm implement, | ||
machinery, or tool for tilling the soil; | ||
(B) a towed vehicle that transports to the field | ||
and spreads fertilizer or agricultural chemicals; or | ||
(C) a motor vehicle designed and adapted to | ||
deliver feed to livestock. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 622.901, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 622.901. WIDTH EXCEPTIONS. (a) In this section, "farm | ||
tractor" and "implement of husbandry" have the meanings assigned by | ||
Section 541.201. | ||
(b) The width limitation provided by Section 621.201 does | ||
not apply to: | ||
(1) highway building or maintenance machinery that is | ||
traveling: | ||
(A) during daylight on a public highway other | ||
than a highway that is part of the national system of interstate and | ||
defense highways; or | ||
(B) for not more than 50 miles on a highway that | ||
is part of the national system of interstate and defense highways; | ||
(2) a vehicle traveling during daylight on a public | ||
highway other than a highway that is part of the national system of | ||
interstate and defense highways or traveling for not more than 50 | ||
miles on a highway that is part of the national system of interstate | ||
and defense highways if the vehicle is: | ||
(A) a farm tractor or implement of husbandry; or | ||
(B) a vehicle on which a farm tractor or | ||
implement of husbandry, other than a tractor or implement being | ||
transported from one dealer to another, is being moved by the owner | ||
of the tractor or implement or by an agent or employee of the owner: | ||
(i) to deliver the tractor or implement to a | ||
new owner; | ||
(ii) to transport the tractor or implement | ||
to or from a mechanic for maintenance or repair; or | ||
(iii) in the course of an agricultural | ||
operation; | ||
(3) machinery that is used solely for drilling water | ||
wells, including machinery that is a unit or a unit mounted on a | ||
conventional vehicle or chassis, and that is traveling: | ||
(A) during daylight on a public highway other | ||
than a highway that is part of the national system of interstate and | ||
defense highways; or | ||
(B) for not more than 50 miles on a highway that | ||
is part of the national system of interstate and defense highways; | ||
(4) a vehicle owned or operated by a public, private, | ||
or volunteer fire department; | ||
(5) a vehicle registered under Section 502.431; or | ||
(6) a recreational vehicle to which Section 622.903 | ||
applies. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |