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2025 Texas Statutes
Transportation Code
Title 7 - Vehicles and Traffic
Subtitle E - Vehicle Size and Weight
Chapter 621 - General Provisions Relating to Vehicle Size and Weight
Subchapter D. Local Regulations
Section 621.303. Municipal Regulation of Loads and Equipment

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TX Transp Code § 621.303 (2025)
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Sec. 621.303. MUNICIPAL REGULATION OF LOADS AND EQUIPMENT. (a) The governing body of any municipality may regulate the movement and operation on a public road, other than a state highway in the territory of the municipality, of:

(1) an overweight, oversize, or overlength commodity that cannot reasonably be dismantled; and

(2) superheavy or oversize equipment for the transportation of an overweight, oversize, or overlength commodity that cannot be reasonably dismantled.

(b) The governing body of a municipality may not, because of weight, regulate the movement and operation on a state highway or county or municipal road of a combination of vehicles operating under a permit issued under Section 623.402.

Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.

Amended by:

Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 108 (S.B. 1524), Sec. 2, eff. January 1, 2018.

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