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1994 SESSION


CHAPTER 154
An Act to amend and reenact § 46.2-1142 of the Code of Virginia, relating to concrete haulers.
[H 262]
Approved April 1, 1994

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 46.2-1142 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 46.2-1142. Overweight permits for concrete haulers.

The Commonwealth Transportation Board and local authorities of cities and towns, in their respective jurisdictions, upon written application made by the owner or operator, shall issue overweight permits for operation of certain vehicles used to haul concrete. Permits under this section shall be issued only for three-axle vehicles used exclusively for the mixing of concrete in transit or at a project site or for transporting necessary components in a compartmentalized vehicle to produce concrete immediately upon arrival at a project site. Any vehicle operating under a permit issued pursuant to this section shall have a gross weight of no more than 60,000 pounds, a single axle weight of no more than 20,000 pounds, and a tandem axle weight of no more than 40,000 pounds. Such permits shall be issued without cost. No such permit shall authorize the operation of the vehicles enumerated in this section for a distance of more than twenty-five miles from a batching plant. Such permit shall not designate the route to be traversed nor contain restrictions or conditions not applicable to other vehicles in their general use of the highways.

Each vehicle, when loaded according to the provisions of a permit issued under this section, shall be operated at a reduced speed. The reduced speed limit is to be ten miles per hour slower than the legal speed limit in fifty-five, forty-five and thirty-five miles per hour speed limit zones.