Virginia SB 73: Overweight permits; vehicles for hauling Virginia-grown farm produce over bridges and culverts.

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18100733D

SENATE BILL NO. 73 

Offered January 10, 2018 

Prefiled December 1, 2017 

A BILL to amend and reenact � 46.2-1148 of the Code of 
 Virginia, relating to overweight permits for hauling Virginia-grown farm 
 produce; bridges and culverts. 
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Patrons-- Cosgrove and Chafin 

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Referred to Committee on Transportation 

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That � 46.2-1148 of the Code of Virginia is amended and 
 reenacted as follows:

� 46.2-1148. Overweight permit for hauling Virginia-grown farm 
 produce.

In addition to other permits provided for in this article, the 
 Commissioner, upon written application by the owner or operator of any vehicle 
 hauling farm produce grown in Virginia from the point of origin to the first 
 place of delivery, shall issue permits for overweight operation of such 
 vehicles as provided in this section. Such permits shall allow the vehicles to 
 have a single axle weight of no more than 24,000 pounds, a tandem axle weight 
 of no more than 40,000 pounds, and a tri-axle grouping weight of no more than 
 50,000 pounds. Additionally, any five-axle combination may have a gross weight 
 of no more than 90,000 pounds, any four-axle combination, may have a gross 
 weight of not more than 70,000 pounds, any three-axle combination may have a 
 gross weight of no more than 60,000 pounds, and any two-axle combination may 
 have a gross weight of no more than 40,000 pounds.

Except as otherwise provided in this section, no such permit 
 shall designate the route to be traversed nor contain restrictions or 
 conditions not applicable to other vehicles in their general use of the 
 highways.

No permit issued under this section shall authorize any vehicle whose axle weights or 
 axle spacing would not be permissible under �� 46.2-1122 through 46.2-1127 to 
 cross any bridge constituting a part of any public road to violate 
 any weight limitation applicable to bridges or culverts, as promulgated and 
 posted in accordance with � 46.2-1130. 
 Nothing contained in this section shall authorize any extension of weight 
 limits provided in � 46.2-1127 for operation on interstate highways.

The fee for a permit issued under this section shall be $45, 
 to be allocated as follows: (i) $40 to the Highway Maintenance and Operating 
 Fund established pursuant to � 33.2-1530, with a portion equal to the 
 percentage of the Commonwealth's total lane miles represented by the lane miles 
 eligible for maintenance payments pursuant to �� 33.2-319 and 33.2-366 being 
 redistributed on the basis of lane miles to the applicable localities pursuant 
 to �� 33.2-319 and 33.2-366, to be used to assist in funding needed highway 
 pavement and bridge maintenance and rehabilitation and (i