SSB 3182 (LSB 6173XC (3) 83)

SENATE FILE _____

BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE BILL BY CHAIRPERSON FRAISE)

A BILL FOR

An Act concerning weight limits for vehicles carrying grain, fertilizer, or agricultural chemicals on noninterstate highways.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 321.463, subsection 5, paragraph c, Code Supplement 2009, is amended to read as follows:
   c.  The maximum gross weight allowed to be carried on a livestock or vehicle, construction vehicle, or a vehicle carrying grain, fertilizer, or agricultural chemicals on noninterstate highways is as follows:

NONINTERSTATE HIGHWAYS

 MAXIMUM GROSS WEIGHT TABLE

 LIVESTOCK OR CONSTRUCTION VEHICLE OR VEHICLE

CARRYING LIVESTOCK, GRAIN, FERTILIZER,

OR AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS

 Distance

 in feet        6 Axles               7 Axles

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  44        80,500               80,500

  45        81,000               81,500

  46        81,500               82,500

  47        82,000               83,500

  48        83,000               84,000

  49        83,500               85,000

  50        84,000               86,000

  51        84,500               87,000

  52        85,000               88,000

  53        86,000               88,500

  54        86,500               89,500

  55        87,000               90,500

  56        87,500               91,500

  57        88,000               92,000

  58        89,000               93,000

  59        89,500               94,000

  60        90,000               95,000

  61               95,500

  62               96,000

   Notwithstanding any provision of this section to the contrary, the maximum gross weight allowed to be carried on a noninterstate highway by a livestock vehicle carrying livestock, grain, fertilizer, or agricultural chemicals with five axles, a minimum distance in feet between the centers of the first and fifth axles of sixty-one feet, and a minimum distance between the two rear axles of at least eight feet and one inch is eighty-six thousand pounds.
EXPLANATION
   This bill provides weight limitations for vehicles carrying grain, fertilizer, or agricultural chemicals that currently apply to livestock and construction vehicles. The new weight limitations apply to vehicles with six or seven axles traveling on noninterstate highways.
   In addition, current law allows a livestock vehicle with five axles, a minimum distance of 61 feet between the centers of the first and fifth axles, and a minimum distance of eight feet, one inch between the two rear axles to carry a maximum gross weight of 86,000 pounds. The bill extends the weight allowance to similar vehicles carrying grain, fertilizer, or agricultural chemicals.