Current Status Bill Number:3767 Ratification Number:106 Act Number:32 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:House Introduced Date:19970401 Primary Sponsor:Townsend All Sponsors:Townsend, Sharpe, G. Brown, Webb and Riser Drafted Document Number:dka\4229cm.97 Date Bill Passed both Bodies:19970508 Governor's Action:S Date of Governor's Action:19970521 Subject:Cotton modular vehicles, width of revised; Motor Vehicles, Agriculture
Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ _______________________________________ _______ ____________ ------ 19970604 Act No. A32 ------ 19970521 Signed by Governor ------ 19970515 Ratified R106 Senate 19970508 Read third time, enrolled for ratification Senate 19970507 Read second time, unanimous consent for third reading on Thursday, 19970508 Senate 19970501 Recalled from Committee, 15 ST placed on the Calendar Senate 19970501 Introduced, read first time, 15 ST referred to Committee House 19970430 Read third time, sent to Senate House 19970429 Read second time House 19970424 Committee report: Favorable 21 HEPW House 19970401 Introduced, read first time, 21 HEPW referred to CommitteeView additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.
(A32, R106, H3767)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 57-3-160, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO PERMITS FOR COTTON MODULAR VEHICLES, SO AS TO REVISE THE WIDTH OF COTTON MODULAR VEHICLES.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
Cotton modular vehicles
SECTION 1. Section 57-3-160(A) of the 1976 Code, as added by Section 85A, Part II, Act 497 of 1994, is amended to read:
"(A) Notwithstanding Section 56-5-4030 or another provision of Chapter 5 of Title 56, the Department of Transportation shall issue, under terms and conditions in the public interest for safety on the highways, a permit for the use on the public highways of cotton modular vehicles. The permit must be issued annually, and it allows movement on the highways at any time. For the purposes of this section, 'cotton modular vehicle' is defined as a single motor vehicle used only to transport seed cotton modules, cotton, or equipment used in the transporting or processing of cotton. This cotton modular vehicle may not exceed a width of one hundred ten inches and may not exceed a length of fifty feet extreme overall dimensions, inclusive of front and rear bumpers and load. To be valid, the permit must be carried on the vehicle, and it is unlawful for a person to violate a provision, term, or condition of the permit. The fee for the permit is fifty dollars and authorizes the use of only one properly described cotton modular vehicle. Loaded cotton modular vehicles must not be operated on interstate highways."
Time effective
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
Approved the 21st day of May, 1997.