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SENATE BILL NO. 228 Offered January 18, 1996 A BILL to amend and reenact § 46.2-1149.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to overweight permits for cotton module haulers. ----------
Patrons-- Holland, Lucas and Quayle; Delegates: Barlow, Councill, Ingram, Nelms and Ruff
---------- Referred to the Committee on Transportation ----------

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 tandem axle weight permits for cotton module haulers.

The Commonwealth Transportation Board, 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 at tandem axle weights in excess of that authorized in § 46.2-1125. The Commonwealth Transportation Board shall promulgate regulations governing such permits. Such permits shall allow the vehicles to have tandem axle weights of no more than 40,000 48,000 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.