General and Special Laws of The State of Texas Passed By The Third Called Session of the Fifty-Seventh Legislature and the Regular Session of the Fifty-Eighth Legislature Page: 492
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Ch. 178 58TH LEGISLATURE--REGULAR SESSION
Compensation Law for Texas Technological College employees have been
amended and modified by previous Legislatures, and the fact that such
amendments and modifications should be adopted by Texas Technological
College, and all other state-supported institutions of higher education,
create an emergency and an imperative public necessity that the Consti-
tutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days in each
House be suspended, and said Rule is hereby suspended; and that this
Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and it is
so enacted.
Passed the Senate, April 18, 1963: Yeas 31, Nays 0; passed the House,
May 8, 1963, by a non-record vote.
Approved May 18, 1963.
Effective 90 days after May 24, 1963, date of adjournment.
OIL WELL SERVICING EQUIPMENT-MOVEMENT
ON HIGHWAYS
CHAPTER 179 15
S. B. No. 290
An Act specifying that the provisions thereof shall be cumulative of all other laws
regulating the operation of vehicles and the movement of machinery on
highways; declaring legislative intent to provide an option; providing an
alternative procedure for the issuance of permits for the movement of over-
size or overweight oil well servicing, oil well clean out, and/or oil well drilling
machinery and equipment; providing that such permitted oversize and
overweight vehicles be registered for their maximum legal weight or be
otherwise licensed as provided by law; authorizing the Highway Commission
to establish rules, regulations and fees for such movements; establishing
legislative policy with respect to such rules, regulations and fees; authoriz-
ing the Highway Department to determine whether certain vehicles are
subject to registration; making owners liable for damages caused highways
by oversize or overweight movement; excluding from this Act all persons,
firms and corporations holding a certificate or permit from the Railroad
Commission whether or not all their operations are under such certificate,
permit or authority; providing a savings clause; and declaring an emer-
gency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
Section 1. The provisions of this Act shall be cumulative of all other
laws regulating the operation of vehicles and the movement of machinery
on the highways of this state, it being the express intent of this Act to
provide an optional procedure for the issuance of permits for the move-
ment of oversize or overweight oil well servicing and/or oil well drilling
machinery and equipment.
Sec. 2. When any person, firm or corporation, desires to operate over
any road or highway under the jurisdiction of the State Highway Depart-
ment any vehicle which is a piece of fixed load mobile machinery or equip-
ment used for the purpose of servicing, cleaning out, or drilling oil wells,
and when such vehicle cannot comply with one or more of the restrictions
set out in Sections 3 and 5 of Acts 1929, 41st Legislature, 2nd Called
Session, Chapter 42, page 72, as amended (Article 827a, Vernon's Annotat-
ed Penal Code), the State Highway Department may, as an alternative to
15. Vernon's Ann.P.C. art. 827a-6.
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Texas. Legislature. General and Special Laws of The State of Texas Passed By The Third Called Session of the Fifty-Seventh Legislature and the Regular Session of the Fifty-Eighth Legislature, legislative document, 1963; [Austin, Texas]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth221759/m1/828/?q=+date%3A1945-1972: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.