Senate File 484 - Reprinted SENATE FILE BY COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE (SUCCESSOR TO SSB 1315) Passed Senate, Date Passed House, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act relating to maximum size and weight requirements for 2 vehicles hauling crops during the annual period of harvest. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 2834SV 82 5 dea/es/88 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 321.463, subsection 5, Code 2007, is 1 2 amended by adding the following new paragraph: 1 3 NEW PARAGRAPH. f. Notwithstanding any other law of this 1 4 state, during the annual period beginning September 15 and 1 5 ending November 15, the provisions of paragraphs "a" and "b" 1 6 and section 321E.29 are suspended, to the extent that those 1 7 provisions restrict the movement of oversize and overweight 1 8 loads of soybeans, corn, hay, straw, and stover and require a 1 9 permit to transport such loads. This paragraph applies to 1 10 loads transported from point of harvest to storage or 1 11 distribution points on highways other than interstate roads by 1 12 vehicles or combinations of vehicles which do not exceed a 1 13 maximum gross weight of ninety thousand pounds, do not exceed 1 14 the maximum axle weight limit determined under the nonprimary 1 15 highway maximum gross weight table in paragraph "b" by more 1 16 than ten percent, do not exceed twenty thousand pounds on any 1 17 one axle, and comply with posted limits on bridges. 1 18 SF 484 1 19 dea:nh/cc/26