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      HOUSE BILL 11-1279
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Sonnenberg and Becker, Baumgardner,
      Brown, Casso, Gardner B., Looper, Priola;
      also SENATOR(S) Hodge.
      
      
      Concerning permits for excess size and weight vehicles.
       
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  42-4-510 (1) (b) (II) (B) and the introductory portion
      to 42-4-510 (11) (a) (VII), Colorado Revised Statutes, are amended to read:
      
           42-4-510.  Permits for excess size and weight and for
      manufactured homes - rules.  (1) (b) (II)  An overweight permit issued
      pursuant to this section shall be available for overweight divisible loads if:
      
           (B)  The vehicle is operated in combination with a trailer or
      semitrailer, which is commonly referred to as a tractor-trailer, the trailer has
      a tandem or triple axle grouping two or three axles, and the maximum
      gross weight of the vehicle does not exceed ninety-seven thousand pounds;
      and
      
           (11) (a)  The department of transportation, the motor carrier services
      division of the department of revenue, or the Colorado state patrol may
      charge permit applicants permit fees as follows:
      
           (VII)  For overweight permits for vehicle combinations with a
      tandem or triple axle grouping trailer that has two or three axles for
      divisible vehicles or loads exceeding legal weight limits established
      pursuant to sub-subparagraph (B) of subparagraph (II) of paragraph (b) of
      subsection (1) of this section:
      
           SECTION 2.  Act subject to petition - effective date.  This act
      shall take effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the
      ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly (August
      10, 2011, if adjournment sine die is on May 11, 2011); except that, if a
      referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V of the state
      constitution against this act or an item, section, or part of this act within
      such period, then the act, item, section, or part shall not take effect unless
      approved by the people at the general election to be held in November 2012
      and shall take effect on the date of the official declaration of the vote
      thereon by the governor.
      
      
      
      
      ________________________________________________________
      Frank McNulty                      Brandon C. Shaffer
      SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE                     PRESIDENT OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
      
      
      ____________________________  ____________________________
      Marilyn Eddins                      Cindi L. Markwell
      CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE                 SECRETARY OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
                                    _________________________________________
                                    John W. Hickenlooper
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO