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STATUS INFORMATION
General Bill
Sponsors: Senator Grooms
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Companion/Similar bill(s): 3237
Introduced in the Senate on January 12, 2005
Currently residing in the Senate Committee on Transportation
Summary: Peanut wagons exempt from size, weight and load limitations
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS
Date Body Action Description with journal page number ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1/12/2005 Senate Introduced and read first time SJ-29 1/12/2005 Senate Referred to Committee on Transportation SJ-29
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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
TO AMEND SECTION 56-5-4020, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO EXEMPTIONS FROM THE PROVISIONS THAT REGULATE THE SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD LIMITATIONS FOR VEHICLES THAT TRAVEL ALONG THE STATE'S HIGHWAYS, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT PEANUT WAGONS ARE EXEMPTED FROM COMPLYING WITH THESE PROVISIONS.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 56-5-4020(A) of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 164 of 1993, is further amended to read:
"(A) Except as provided in Section 56-5-4140(2), the provisions of this article governing size, weight, and load do not apply to fire apparatus, road machinery or implements, and products of husbandry including farm tractors, timber equipment, peanut wagons, liquid fertilizer storage facilities, and vehicles or combinations of vehicles used to transport, store, or spread lime, nitrogen, or other soil improvement products for agricultural purposes moved upon the highways so as not to damage the highways nor unduly interfere with highway traffic, or to vehicles operated under terms of special permits issued pursuant to this chapter. The exemptions do not apply to Section 56-5-4230. With regard to vehicles or combinations of vehicles used to transport, store, or spread soil improvement products and to transport products of husbandry exempted pursuant to this section, the owners shall obtain an annual permit to operate the vehicle as provided in Section 56-5-4170 which prescribes the specific conditions of the exemption."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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