Missouri HB 2084: Prohibits trucks of a certain weight from being driven in the far left lane on certain interstate highways

Bill Text

SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 2084
101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE PORTER.
4358H.01I DANA RADEMAN MILLER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 304.705, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to
truck operation on interstates, with a penalty provision.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 304.705, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu
2 thereof, to be known as section 304.705, to read as follows:
304.705. 1. [In any county with a population of more than one hundred eighty
2 thousand inhabitants that adjoins a county with a charter form of government with a
3 population of more than nine hundred thousand inhabitants,] All trucks registered for a gross
4 weightofmorethantwenty-fourthousandpounds[,asofJanuary1,2008,]shallnotbedriven
5 in the far left lane upon an interstate highway having at least three lanes proceeding in the
6 same direction, within three miles of where an interstate highway and a three-digit numbered
7 Missouri route intersects with an average daily traffic count on the interstate highway of at
8 least one hundred thirty thousand vehicles at such point. The Missouri department of
9 transportationshalldesign,manufacture,andinstallanyinformationalanddirectionalsignsat
10 the appropriate locations. Such restriction shall not apply when:
11 (1) It is reasonably necessary for the operation of the truck to respond to emergency
12 conditions; or
13 (2) The right or a center lane of a roadway is closed to traffic while under
14 construction, maintenance, or repair.
15 2. As used in this section, "truck" means any vehicle, machine, tractor trailer, or
16 semitrailer, or any combination thereof, propelled or drawn by mechanical power and
17 designed for or used in the transportation of property upon the highways.
EXPLANATION — Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is
intended to be omitted from the law. Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language.

18 3. A violation of this section is an infraction unless such violation causes an
19 immediate threat of an accident, in which case such violation shall be deemed a class C
20 misdemeanor, or unless an accident results from such violation, in which case such violation
21 is a class A misdemeanor.
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