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1996 SESSION


CHAPTER 29
An Act to amend and reenact § 46.2-1149.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to overweight permits for cotton module haulers.
[S 228]
Approved March 4, 1996

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 46.2-1149.1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 46.2-1149.1. Excess weight permits for cotton module haulers.

The Commonwealth Transportation Board Commissioner, upon application made by the owner or operator of vehicles used exclusively to transport seed cotton modules, shall issue without cost a permit authorizing the operation on the highway of such vehicles, from September 1 through December 31 of each year, at tandem axle weights in excess of that authorized in § 46.2-1125. The Commonwealth Transportation Board Commissioner shall promulgate regulations governing such permits. Such permits shall allow the vehicles to have tandem axle weights of no more than 40,000 44,000 pounds. No permit issued under this section shall authorize a single axle weight in excess of that authorized in § 46.2-1124 or a gross weight in excess of that authorized in § 46.2-1126 56,000 pounds.