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*1 OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS AUSTIN
Honorable Ynrphy Cole
County Auditor
Liberty County
Liberty, Texas
mar Sir:
letter of Angaat 14. 1939, in rrh on or this attpsrt- ment relative to es permitted under
11'8 Annotated Texas 111 336, chapter &3a, gular Session, Forty- *Ho train or qombina- a 0pmda alone shall more than three (3) feet aor, exaept, baa hereln- &I r0ui (4) red beyond r the 8a.818 nOUS Bill 336 &VU8 issuance a speofal petit rot or combination or rehiales to exceed 6r 45 feet.
*The question which we wish answered ia this: Does a special. permit whiah allows a length of more than 45 feet Imply the right of aarrier to haal a load nhlah wi-11 extend more than 3 feet in front more than 4 feet in the rear of hia ve- hick?"
Honorable lturphy Cole, Page 2 so much 0r seotion 2 0r Artiole 827a as is pertii;. +
nent reeds as rollows:
"It shall be unlawful aa aonstitute a mis- aemanor ror any person to drive, operate or move or for the owner to aaase or permit to be driven, operated, or moved on any highway, any rehlole or vehiales or a sine or weight exaeeaing the llml- tatlons stated in this Act or any vehiale or ve- hicles whlah are not oonstruated or equipped as required in this Act, or to transport thereon any load or loads exceedlag the dimensions or weight pmSt3ribea in this Aat; provided the department, aoting direatly orthrough its agent or agents designating In each aounty shall have aud is here- by granted authority to grant permits llmltea to periods of ninety (90) days or less ror the trans- portation over state highways of suah overweight or oversize or overlength aommodities as eannot be reasonably dismantled or for the operation over state highways or super-heavy and oreraise equipment for the transportation or suah orers%e or overweight or orerlength oomamdities as aan- not be reasonably dismantled; . . .O Article 827a, Section 3, paragraph a, reads as r0im8:
%o motor rehiale, commeroial motor rehi- cle, trnak-trailer, trailer, or semi-trailer shall exceed a length thirty-rive (35) r60t, and no combination of sash rehiales coupled te- gather shall ssaeed a total length of forty- rive (4.5) feet, unless such vehicle or aomblna- tions of vehiales is operated exaluelvely w%th- in the limits of an incorporated city town."
As you have indiaated In the quoted portion of
your letter, Seatlon 2 of Artlale 827a makes prorisions ror the issuance of speoial permits for the operation over state highways or oversized equipment in the event such equipment is necessary ror the transportatfon 0r a-r- weight, oversired or orerlength aomnodities wh%ah aannot be reasonably dismantled.: This provision creates an ex- ception to the length speoiiied In paragraph Q 0r aeotion 3, Article 827a, ror vehicles and .a combination ei tehloles.
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You will note that paragraph d. Saatioti 3, Artl- ale 8g7a, provides that'na rehlale or aomblnatlon et ve- hi0108 shall aarry a load whioh extends more than thraa r6et beyond the front thereofnor "axoapt as herelnbefora more then ioar feet bemad the mar th6MOi' toYbled ng togather all or the above-quoted atatatorl, &a- t!zzimf vIaions we llnd that the Legislators prohlblted any va- hlole or oomblnatlon 0r vehlalea rr0la oarrying a i0aa rhiah extended core than thrae r80t beyond the rront or the vahlola or aomblnatloa and did aot provide ror any ueeptloa to thla raqalremsst, bat the wardfng para- graph d, Saatlon 3, Artlola &37a, makes it aqaallr olaar that the Laglalatura did antlalpate that an ovarlagf;h icurd ml&t extend sum than r00r r06t beyond tha re+r 0r thb aMwayin& vehicle Of oombinatlon.or vehlalea. It Is, theraZWe, the opinion or this Dapartmant
that a apeofal permit ror the~operat1on of an overl6a&h vehlole boas aot *ly the rlghti 0r a oarrier to haal a lOad rhioh extends mora than three feet beyond the imnt br th6 vehlale. On ths other hand, a pualt ror the trana- portatloa 0r oterleqth 6ommedlti68 or r0r the bpemticin or overalaa .eqalwt ior the traasportatlon 09 aaoh ovar- length oammoditlea doas oarry with it as an inaldental pr&v- ileg. the rlghttoertsn(lt~lloa6iias~as~ry,moretban rror th6 rear 0r mob ~0hf0~0. tom rw .
The other qaaatlon presented tD y-oar 16thr ra-
qaeats that na det.enafn6 what la meant by the *rear* or a vehlolm amd we prmeame that you rerar to th6 .lan@iage or pongmph d, Seatloa S or Artlola BaOa, wa ragret to advise you that th6 Issue rhloh yea hare prosant i6 008 parely or llaot and la not a aubjoot apoa which this Mpart- meat ean attain* tQ mnder an oplnloa.
Year6 very traly APPROVED8EP 16, 19%
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ATTORNEY GENERAL OS TEXAS
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