2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 13a-88. Load capacity.

      Sec. 13a-88. Load capacity. Each highway bridge existing on July 1, 1921, maintained in whole or in part by the state, shall be so maintained as to permit the safe passage of a two-axle vehicle having a gross weight of not less than eight tons, and each bridge constructed thereafter shall be so built and maintained as to permit the safe passage of a two-axle vehicle having a gross weight of not less than sixteen tons or a three-axle vehicle having a gross weight of not less than twenty tons, provided each bridge constructed by the commissioner on a state highway after July 1, 1955, shall be so built and maintained as to permit the safe passage of any vehicle or combination of vehicle and trailer or semitrailer or any other object not exceeding the weights specified in section 14-267a.

      (1949 Rev., S. 2185; 1955, S. 1188d; 1958 Rev., S. 13-72; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 88; P.A. 79-188, S. 2, 10.)

      History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; P.A. 79-188 substituted reference to Sec. 14-267a for reference to repealed Sec. 14-268.

      See Secs. 13a-121 re notice of load capacity and appeals concerning weight restrictions.

      See Sec. 13a-151 re violations of bridge load capacity.

      Cited. 121 C. 613. See note to section 13a-144.