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Honorable Homer Garrison, Jr., page 2 (0-6509)
"Every owner of a motor vehicle, trailer or semi-trailer used or to be used upon
the highways of this State shall apply each year to the State Highway Department
through the County Tax Collector of the county in which he resides for the regis-
tration of each such vehicle owned or controlled by him for the ensuing or current
calendar year or unexpired portion thereof, . . o"
Sec. 3 of Article 827, Vernon's Annotated Penal Code, originally
passed in 1929 as Senate Bill No. 11, chapter 42, page 72, Acts of the Forty-first
Legislature, Second Called Session, and amended in 1931, by H.B. No. 336, chapter
282, page 507, Acts of the Forty-second Legislature, Regular Session, reads as
follows
"Except as otherwise provided by law, no commercial motor vehicle, truck-tractor,
trailer or semi-trailer, nor any combination of such vehicles, shall be operated
over, on, or upon the publticF hways outsiddThoeTTEiits of an incorporated city
or onwn, the total gross weight of which exceeds that given by the following form-
ulat
"f; equals C times (L plus 40) where
"' equals total gross weight, including load and vehicle in pounds;
"C equals 700;
"L equals the distance between the first and last axles of a vehicle
or combination of vehicles, in feet.
"Under the foregoing formula, the gross weight is ascertained by adding forty (40)
to the distance in feet between the first and last axles of a vehicle or combina-
tion of vehicles and multiplying the sum by seven the gross weight shall never
exceed thirty-eight thousand (38,000) pounds.
"Provided, however, the gross weight permitted by the foregoing formula shall be
subject to the following restrictions and limitations
"No such vehicle or combination of vehicles shall have a
greater weight than six hundred (600) pounds per inch width
of tire upon any wheel concentrated upon the surface of the
highway and using high pressure tires, and a greater weight
than six hundred and fifty (650) pounds per inch width of
tire upon any wheel concentrated upon the surface of the
highway and using low-pressure tires, and no wheel shall
carry a load in excess of eight thousand (8000) pounds on
high-pressure tires, and nine thousand (9000) pounds on
low-pressure tires, not any axle a load in excess of six-
teen thousand (16,000) pounds on hig-pressure tires, and
eighteen thousand (18,000) pounds on low-pressure tires,
An axle load shall be defined as the load on all wheels
whose centers may be included between two parallel trans-
verce vehicle plans forty (40) inches apart." (Underscoring
ours)
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Texas. Attorney-General's Office. Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6509, text, April 28, 1945; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth263787/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.