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1996 SESSION
967287681Be 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.