House File 481 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  RANTS


    Passed House, Date               Passed Senate, Date             
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                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to gross weight limitations for vehicles
  2    transporting ocean shipping containers on noninterstate
  3    highways.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  5 TLSB 1198YH 82
  6 dea/gg/14

PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.   Section 321.463, Code 2007, is amended by
  1  2 adding the following new subsection:
  1  3    NEW SUBSECTION.  9A.  a.  The maximum gross weight of a
  1  4 vehicle or combination of vehicles involved in intermodal
  1  5 transportation and transporting no more than two ocean
  1  6 shipping containers on a noninterstate highway may exceed the
  1  7 weight limitations in this section, subject to the following
  1  8 conditions:
  1  9    (1)  The total weight of the loaded container or containers
  1 10 does not exceed fifty thousand pounds.
  1 11    (2)  The gross weight on any one axle or group of axles
  1 12 does not exceed the gross weight allowable under this section.
  1 13    b.  For purposes of this subsection, "container" has the
  1 14 same meaning given the term "freight container" by the
  1 15 international standards organization in Series 1, Freight
  1 16 Containers, 3rd edition (ISO 668=1979), and "ocean shipping
  1 17 container" means a container intended for transport by ocean
  1 18 common carrier, as defined in 46 App. U.S.C. } 1702.
  1 19                           EXPLANATION
  1 20    This bill provides an exemption from gross weight
  1 21 limitations for a vehicle or combination of vehicles
  1 22 transporting not more than two ocean shipping containers on
  1 23 noninterstate highways.  The exception applies provided that
  1 24 the combined loaded weight of the containers does not exceed
  1 25 50,000 pounds and the gross weight limitations for any one
  1 26 axle or group of axles are not violated.
  1 27 LSB 1198YH 82
  1 28 dea:nh/gg/14