*1 OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS AUSTIN *2 Honorable Cmer Carrioon, Jr., Director, Pegs 2

Seotlon 3a of the above-Quoted &Wale 687a, Vernon*8 Texas Penal fitatutes, spooifloally providea that “HO . . . semi-trailer shall excoed a length of thfrty- five rest.- It follows that any semi-Weller whfoh by l otual seesurement exoeeds thirty-five foot In length, ournot be lawfully operated upon the pub110 highways ot this State. ‘fho etatute alearly oontempletee that in de- terminlng the length of a unit in a ooabination, oaah partloular unit auet be ocneldered l eparetely; as for ex- mpla, in determining the length of a l eml-trailer, the measurement would be the over-all length of ouoh seai- trailer end not from the baok nhoels of a truok-traotcr to rhioh it might be attaohed or from the king pin of the 8eml-trailer. The location of the king pin or pivot point on the semi-trtiler might aileot the over-all length of the aombination but not thr unit.

Tour6 very truly I:EcJ~JN 30, 1941 ATTO- GEMXRAL OF TEXAS