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STATUS INFORMATION
General Bill
Sponsors: Senators Short and Fair
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Introduced in the Senate on January 9, 2007
Currently residing in the Senate Committee on Transportation
Summary: Litter from vehicles
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS
Date Body Action Description with journal page number
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12/6/2006 Senate Prefiled
12/6/2006 Senate Referred to Committee on Transportation
1/9/2007 Senate Introduced and read first time SJ-72
1/9/2007 Senate Referred to Committee on Transportation SJ-72
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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
TO AMEND SECTION 56-5-4100 OF THE 1976 CODE, RELATING TO THE ESCAPE OF MATERIALS LOADED ON VEHICLES, TO PROVIDE THAT WOOD CHIPS AND WOOD BIOMASS SHALL BE TREATED AS THE LOADING OF ROCKS AND GARBAGE.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 56-5-4100(B) and (F) of the 1976 Code are amended to read:
"(B) Trucks, trailers, or other vehicles when loaded with rock, gravel, stone, or other similar substances which could blow, leak, sift, or drop must not be driven or moved on any highway unless the height of the load against all four walls does not extend above a horizontal line six inches below their tops when loaded at the loading point; or, if the load is not level, unless the height of the sides of the load against all four walls does not extend above a horizontal line six inches below their tops, and the highest point of the load does not extend above their tops, when loaded at the loading point; or, if not so loaded, unless the load is securely covered by tarpaulin or some other suitable covering; or unless it is otherwise constructed so as to prevent any of its load from dropping, sifting, leaking, blowing, or otherwise escaping from the vehicle. This subsection also includes applies to the transportation of wood chips and other wood biomass, and the transportation of garbage or waste materials to locations for refuse in this State."
"(F) The provisions contained in subsections (A), (B), and (C) are not applicable to and do not restrict the transportation of seed cotton, soybeans, tobacco, poultry, livestock or silage, or other feed grain used in the feeding of poultry or livestock or of paper, wastepaper utilized for the manufacture of industrial products, paper products, logs, forest products not specified in subsection (B), or textile products."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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