NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 4/4/2014.
      
      
      HOUSE BILL 14-1160
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Mitsch Bush and Coram, Fischer, Lee,
      Primavera, Tyler, Exum, Fields, Gardner, Ginal, Labuda, Nordberg, Pabon,
      Rosenthal, Schafer, Williams;
      also SENATOR(S) Todd and Herpin, Rivera.
      
      
      Concerning overweight vehicle permits for divisible loads.
       
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 42-4-507, add (3) (c)
      as follows:
      
           42-4-507.  Wheel and axle loads. (3) (c)  A vehicle contracted
      by or owned and operated by a city, county, municipal utility, or
      special district is exempt from paragraph (c) of subsection (2) of
      this section if the vehicle:
      
           (I)  Is equipped with a vacuum or jet equipment to load or
      unload solid, semisolid, or liquid waste for water or wastewater
      treatment or transportation systems or for the removal of
      storm water; and
      
           (II)  Is not operated on the interstate system as defined by
      section 43-2-101, C.R.S.
      
           SECTION 2.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 42-4-510, amend (11)
      (a) (VII) as follows:
      
           42-4-510.  Permits for excess size and weight and for
      manufactured homes - rules. (11) (a)  The department of transportation
      or the Colorado state patrol may charge permit applicants permit fees as
      follows:
      
           (VII)  For overweight permits for vehicle combinations with a trailer
      that has two or three axles for divisible vehicles or loads exceeding legal
      weight limits established pursuant to by sub-subparagraph (B) of
      subparagraph (II) of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of this section:
      
           (A)  Annual permit, five hundred dollars;
      
           (B)  Six-month permit, two hundred fifty dollars; and
      
           (C)  Single-trip permit, fifteen dollars plus ten dollars per axle; and
      
           (D)  Effective January 1, 2015, annual fleet permit, two
      thousand dollars plus thirty-five dollars per vehicle to be
      permitted.
      
           SECTION 3.  Act subject to petition - effective date -
      applicability. (1)  This act takes 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 6, 2014, if adjournment sine die is on May 7,
      2014); 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 will
      not take effect unless approved by the people at the general election to be
      held in November 2014 and, in such case, will take effect on the date of the
      official declaration of the vote thereon by the governor.
      
           (2)  This act applies to applications submitted on or after the
      applicable effective date of this act.
      
      
      
      
      ________________________________________________________
      Mark Ferrandino                        Morgan Carroll
      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