PRINTER'S NO. 1875
No. 1410 Session of 1998
INTRODUCED BY EARLL, ROBBINS, CORMAN, WHITE, LAVALLE, COSTA,
PUNT, HART, SLOCUM, KUKOVICH, HELFRICK, BELAN, MADIGAN,
WENGER, STAPLETON, STOUT, BRIGHTBILL AND WOZNIAK,
APRIL 2, 1998
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, APRIL 2, 1998
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for permit for movement during
3 course of manufacture.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 4968(a) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a paragraph to read:
8 § 4968. Permit for movement during course of manufacture.
9 (a) Annual permit.--An annual permit may be issued
10 authorizing movement on highways of boats, trailers, mobile
11 homes, modular housing units and undercarriages, helicopters,
12 hot ingots, basic oxygen furnace lances, railway equipment and
13 rails or other articles, vehicles or combinations which exceed
14 the maximum height, width or length specified in Subchapter B
15 (relating to width, height and length) or combinations carrying
16 raw milk or flat-rolled steel coils or hot ingots which exceed
17 the maximum weight specified in Subchapter C (relating to
1 maximum weights of vehicles) while they are in the course of
2 manufacture and entirely within the control of the manufacturer,
3 subject to the following provisions:
4 * * *
5 (3.4) A combination of vehicles which is hauling
6 particle board or fiber board for use in the manufacture of
7 ready-to-assemble household furniture or office furniture may
8 be permitted by the department and local authorities to move
9 upon specified highways within their respective jurisdictions
10 24 hours a day, seven days a week, if the gross weight does
11 not exceed 107,000 pounds and the weight of any nonsteering
12 axle does not exceed 21,000 pounds. No permit may be issued
13 for this type of movement upon an interstate highway.
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15 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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