HB 1321 Summary

• Permits the director and local authorities to issue overweight permits authorizing vehicles to exceed weight limitations by ten percent, with a maximum gross weight of 105,500 pounds.

• Allows farmers' farm vehicles or motor carriers hired by farmers to obtain permits for moving agricultural products from harvest field to initial storage or first point of sale.

• Permits specific motor vehicles to obtain permits for collecting and transporting solid wastes from July 15 to December 1, and for general product movement from December 1 to March 7.

• Requires the appropriate jurisdictional authority to establish permit fees and determine issuance procedures, with the highway patrol issuing permits authorized by the director.

• Passed the House 86-6 with 2 absent and the Senate 46-0 with 1 absent.