S0589B0667A00965 AJB:JSL 04/21/17 #90 A00965
AMENDMENTS TO SENATE BILL NO. 589
Sponsor: SENATOR RAFFERTY
Printer's No. 667
Amend Bill, page 1, line 3, by inserting after "for"
fire apparatus, for length of vehicles, for
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Section 2. Sections 4906 and 4923(a)(2), (b.1) and (c) of
Title 75 are amended to read:
§ 4906. Fire apparatus and emergency vehicles.
This chapter does not apply to fire apparatus being operated
on the highway unless specifically provided otherwise. The
weight requirements of this chapter do not apply to emergency
vehicles as defined in 23 U.S.C. § 127(r)(2) (relating to
vehicle weight limitations-Interstate System). In lieu of the
weight requirements of this chapter, the requirements of 23
U.S.C. § 127(r)(1) shall apply to emergency vehicles.
§ 4923. Length of vehicles.
(a) Motor vehicles.--
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(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to the following:
(i) A motor vehicle equipped with a boom or boomlike
device if the vehicle does not exceed 55 feet.
(ii) A bus, school bus or motor home which does not
exceed 45 feet.
(iii) An articulated bus which does not exceed 63
feet.
(iv) An automobile or boat transporter which does
not exceed 45 feet, exclusive of an overhang of not more
than three feet on the front and four feet on the rear.
An automobile transporter shall not be prohibited from
the transport of cargo or general freight on a backhaul
if the automobile transporter complies with the weight
limitations for a truck tractor and semitrailer
combination.
(b.1) Combinations.--
(1) The length of a single trailer being towed by a
truck tractor shall not exceed 53 feet provided the distance
between the kingpin and the center line of the rear axle or
rear axle group does not exceed 41 feet or, in the case of a
trailer used exclusively or primarily to transport vehicles
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in connection with motor sports competition events, does not
exceed 46 feet.
(2) For a double trailer, the length of each trailer
being towed in combination by a truck tractor shall not
exceed 28 1/2 feet.
(3) The overall length of the combination of a truck
tractor with a conventional fifth wheel and an auto or boat
transporter shall not exceed 65 feet, exclusive of an
overhang of not more than three feet on the front and four
feet on the rear of the combination.
(4) The overall length of a stinger-steered auto or boat
transporter combination shall not exceed [75] 80 feet,
exclusive of an overhang of not more than [three] four feet
on the front and [four] six feet on the rear of the
combination. A stinger-steered automobile transporter shall
not be prohibited from the transport of cargo or general
freight on a backhaul if the stinger-steered automobile
transporter complies with the weight limitations for a truck
tractor and semitrailer combination.
(5) The overall length of a saddle-mount combination
shall not exceed 75 feet.
(6) The overall length of a maxi-cube combination shall
not exceed 65 feet.
(7) A combination consisting of any tow truck towing a
disabled motor vehicle to a place of repairs or other place
of safety.
(8) A combination transporting articles that,
themselves, do not exceed 70 feet in length and are
nondivisible as to length.
(9) The overall length of a towaway trailer transporter
combination shall not exceed 82 feet.
(c) Definitions.--As used in this section, the following
words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this
subsection:
"Automobile or boat transporter." A truck of a total length
not greater than 45 feet, exclusive of an overhang of not more
than three feet on the front and four feet on the rear of the
vehicle configured by the manufacturer to haul either
automobiles, light trucks or boats.
"Towaway trailer transporter combination." As follows:
(1) a combination of vehicles consisting of a trailer
transporter towing unit and two trailers or semitrailers with
a total weight that does not exceed 26,000 pounds; and
(2) the trailers or semitrailers carry no property and
constitute inventory property of a manufacturer, distributor
or dealer of the trailers or semitrailers.
"Trailer transporter towing unit." A power unit that is not
used to carry property when operating in a towaway trailer
transporter combination.
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