NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 5/4/2016.
      
      
      HOUSE BILL 16-1298
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Melton, Esgar, Mitsch Bush;
      also SENATOR(S) Cooke, Baumgardner, Scott, Sonnenberg.
      
      
      Concerning changes in permissible vehicle dimensions.
       
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 42-4-504, amend (1)
      and (4.5) as follows:
      
           42-4-504.  Height and length of vehicles. (1)  No A driver shall
      not drive a vehicle either unladen or with load shall exceed that
      exceeds a height of thirteen feet; except that vehicles with a height of
      fourteen feet six inches shall be operated only on highways designated by
      the fourteen feet six inches. The department of transportation shall
      designate highways with overhead highway structures that have
      less than fourteen feet six inches of vertical clearance. A driver
      shall not drive a vehicle under a structure if the vehicle's height
      exceeds the department's designated vertical clearance for the
      structure.
      
           (4.5)  Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (4) of this
      section, the following combinations of vehicles shall not exceed
      seventy-five feet in total overall length drivers shall not drive the
      following combinations of vehicles:
      
           (a)  Saddlemount combinations consisting of no more than four units
      or saddlemount combinations exceeding ninety-seven feet in
      overall length;
      
           (b)  Laden truck tractor-semitrailer combinations exceeding
      seventy-five feet in overall length; and
      
           (c)  Specialized equipment Stinger-steered vehicle
      combinations used in combination for transporting automobiles or boats
      and whose total overall length exceeds eighty feet; except that
      the overall length of such combination shall be exclusive of these
      combinations excludes:
      
           (I)  Safety devices however, such safety devices shall that are not
      be designed or used for carrying cargo;
      
           (II)  Automobiles or boats being transported;
      
           (III)  Any extension device that may be used for loading beyond the
      extreme front or rear ends of a vehicle or combination of vehicles; except
      that the projection of a load, including any extension devices loaded to the
      front of the vehicle, shall must not extend more than four feet beyond the
      extreme front of the grill of such the vehicle and no the load or extension
      device may must not extend more than six feet to beyond the extreme
      rear of the vehicle; and
      
           (d)  Towaway trailer transporter combinations that:
      
           (I)  Exceed eighty-two feet in overall length;
      
           (II)  Carry property;
      
           (III)  Exceed an overall weight of twenty-six thousand
      pounds;
      
           (IV)  Consist of more than a single towing unit and two
      trailers or semitrailers; or
      
           (V)  Do not constitute inventory property of a
      manufacturer, distributor, or dealer of the trailer or
      semitrailer.
      
           SECTION 2.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 42-4-508, amend (1.5)
      as follows:
      
           42-4-508.  Gross weight of vehicles and loads. (1.5)  The gross
      weight limits provided in subsection (1) of this section are increased
      increase, but by one no more than two thousand pounds, for any
      vehicle or combination of vehicles if the vehicle or combination of vehicles
      contains an alternative fuel system and operates on alternative fuel or both
      alternative and conventional fuel. The provisions of this subsection (1.5)
      apply only when the vehicle or combination of vehicles is operated on a
      highway that is not on the interstate system as defined in section 43-2-101
      (2), C.R.S. For the purposes of this subsection (1.5), "alternative fuel" has
      the same meaning provided in section 25-7-106.8 (1) (a), C.R.S.
      
           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 10, 2016, if adjournment sine die is on May 11,
      2016); 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 2016 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 offenses committed on or after the applicable
      effective date of this act.
      
      
      
      
      ________________________________________________________
      Dickey Lee Hullinghorst                Bill L. Cadman
      SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE                     PRESIDENT OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
      
      
      ____________________________  ____________________________
      Marilyn Eddins                            Effie Ameen
      CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE                 SECRETARY OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
                                    _________________________________________
                                    John W. Hickenlooper
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO