Bill Text - HB1195 (2010)

Relative to height, length, width, and weight limits for trucks.


Revision: Dec. 10, 2009, midnight

HB 1195 – AS INTRODUCED

2010 SESSION

10-2238

06/05

HOUSE BILL 1195

AN ACT relative to height, length, width, and weight limits for trucks.

SPONSORS: Rep. Quandt, Rock 13; Rep. Bettencourt, Rock 4

COMMITTEE: Transportation

ANALYSIS

This bill exempts from height, length, width, and weight limits damaged, disabled, or abandoned vehicles while being towed by a tow truck.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

10-2238

06/05

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Ten

AN ACT relative to height, length, width, and weight limits for trucks.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 New Section; Exception for Vehicles Being Towed. Amend RSA 266 by inserting after section 13-b the following new section:

266:13-c Exception for Vehicles Being Towed. This subsection does not apply to damaged, disabled, or abandoned vehicles or combinations of vehicles while being towed by a tow truck.

2 New Section; Exception for Vehicles Being Towed. Amend RSA 266 by inserting after section 21 the following new section:

266:21-a Exception for Vehicles Being Towed. The total weight of a tow truck and the towed vehicle is exempt from the maximum total gross weight loads allowed under this subdivision if a damaged, disabled, or abandoned vehicle is being towed.

3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.