Texas Transportation Code Title 7, Chapter 621 - General Provisions Relating To Vehicle Size And Weight
SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Texas Section 621.001 - Definitions
In this chapter: (1) "Commercial motor vehicle" means a motor vehicle, other than a motorcycle, designed or used for: (A) the transportation of property; or...
- Texas Section 621.002 - Vehicle Registration Receipt For Certain Heavy Vehicles
(a) A copy of the registration receipt issued under Section 502.057 for a commercial motor vehicle, truck-tractor, trailer, or semitrailer shall be: (1) carried on...
- Texas Section 621.003 - Reciprocal Agreement With Another State For Issuance Of Permits
(a) The board by rule may authorize the director to enter into with the proper authority of another state an agreement that authorizes: (1) the...
- Texas Section 621.004 - Admissibility Of Certificate Of Vertical Clearance
In each civil or criminal proceeding in which a violation of this chapter may be an issue, a certificate of the vertical clearance of a...
- Texas Section 621.005 - Effect Of Increased Limits By United States
If the United States prescribes or adopts vehicle size or weight limits greater than those prescribed by 23 U.S.C. Section 127 on March 18, 1975,...
- Texas Section 621.006 - Restricted Operation On Certain Holidays
The commission by rule may impose restrictions on the weight and size of vehicles to be operated on state highways on the following holidays only:...
- Texas Section 621.007 - Evidence Of Violation
(a) In a proceeding in which a violation of a weight restriction under this subtitle may be an issue, a document is admissible as relevant...
SUBCHAPTER B WEIGHT LIMITATIONS
- Texas Section 621.008 - Rulemaking Authority
The board may adopt rules necessary to implement and enforce this chapter. Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1345 (S.B. 1420), Sec. 58,...
- Texas Section 621.101 - Maximum Weight Of Vehicle Or Combination
(a) A vehicle or combination of vehicles may not be operated over or on a public highway or at a port-of-entry between Texas and the...
SUBCHAPTER C SIZE LIMITATIONS
- Texas Section 621.102 - Authority To Set Maximum Weights
(a) The executive director of the Texas Department of Transportation may set the maximum single axle weight, tandem axle weight, or gross weight of a...
- Texas Section 621.201 - Maximum Width
(a) The total width of a vehicle operated on a public highway other than a vehicle to which Subsection (b) applies, including a load on...
- Texas Section 621.202 - Commission's Authority To Set Maximum Width
(a) To comply with safety and operational requirements of federal law, the commission by order may set the maximum width of a vehicle, including the...
- Texas Section 621.203 - Maximum Length Of Motor Vehicle
(a) A motor vehicle, other than a truck-tractor, may not be longer than 45 feet. (b) A motor bus as defined by Section 502.001 that...
- Texas Section 621.204 - Maximum Length Of Semitrailer Or Trailer
(a) A semitrailer that is operated in a truck-tractor and semitrailer combination may not be longer than 59 feet, excluding the length of the towing...
- Texas Section 621.205 - Maximum Length Of Vehicle Combinations
(a) Except as provided by this section, a combination of not more than three vehicles, including a truck and semitrailer, truck and trailer, truck-tractor and...
- Texas Section 621.206 - Maximum Extended Length Of Load
(a) A vehicle or combination of vehicles may not carry a load that extends more than three feet beyond its front or, except as permitted...
- Texas Section 621.2061 - Exception To Maximum Extended Length Of Load: Certain Motor Vehicles
Notwithstanding Section 621.206, a trailer may carry a load that extends more than four feet beyond the rear of the trailer if the load consists...
SUBCHAPTER D LOCAL REGULATIONS
- Texas Section 621.207 - Maximum Height
(a) A vehicle and its load may not be higher than 14 feet. (b) The operator of a vehicle that is higher than 13 feet...
- Texas Section 621.301 - County's Authority To Set Maximum Weights
(a) The commissioners court of a county may establish load limits for any county road or bridge only with the concurrence of the Texas Department...
- Texas Section 621.302 - Exception To County's Weight Limitations
A maximum weight set under Section 621.301 does not apply to a vehicle delivering groceries or farm products to a destination requiring travel over a...
- Texas Section 621.303 - Municipal Regulation Of Loads And Equipment
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...
SUBCHAPTER E FEES
- Texas Section 621.304 - Restriction On Local Government Authority To Regulate Overweight Vehicles And Loads On State Highway System
Except as expressly authorized by this subtitle, a county or municipality may not require a permit, bond, fee, or license for the movement of a...
- Texas Section 621.351 - Escrow Account For Prepayment Of Permit Fees
(a) The department may establish one or more escrow accounts in the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles fund for the prepayment of a fee for...
- Texas Section 621.352 - Fees For Permits Issued Under Reciprocal Agreement
(a) The board by rule may establish fees for the administration of Section 621.003 in an amount that, when added to the other fees collected...
- Texas Section 621.353 - Distribution Of Fee For Permit For Excess Weight
(a) The comptroller shall send $50 of each base fee collected under Section 623.011 for an excess weight permit to the counties of the state,...
- Texas Section 621.354 - Disposition Of Fees For Permit For Movement Of Cylindrical Hay Bales
Of each fee collected under Section 623.017, the department shall deposit: (1) 90 percent in the state treasury to the credit of the state highway...
- Texas Section 621.355 - Distribution Of Fees For Registration Of Additional Weight
(a) If an operator or owner is required to pay for registration of additional weight under Section 621.406 in a county other than the county...
SUBCHAPTER F ENFORCEMENT
- Texas Section 621.356 - Form Of Payment
The board may adopt rules prescribing the method for payment of a fee for a permit issued by the department that authorizes the operation of...
- Texas Section 621.401 - Definition
In this subchapter, "weight enforcement officer" means: (1) a license and weight inspector of the Department of Public Safety; (2) a highway patrol officer; (3)...
- Texas Section 621.4015 - Designation By Commissioners Court
(a) A county commissioners court may designate a constable or deputy constable of the county as a weight enforcement officer in a county: (1) that...
- Texas Section 621.402 - Weighing Loaded Vehicle
(a) A weight enforcement officer who has reason to believe that the single axle weight, tandem axle weight, or gross weight of a loaded motor...
- Texas Section 621.403 - Unloading Vehicle If Gross Weight Exceeded
(a) If the gross weight of a motor vehicle weighed under Section 621.402 is heavier than the weight equal to the maximum gross weight authorized...
- Texas Section 621.404 - Unloading Vehicle If Axle Weight Exceeded
(a) If the axle weight of a motor vehicle weighed under Section 621.402 is heavier than the maximum axle weight authorized by law for the...
- Texas Section 621.405 - Unloading Exceptions
(a) The operator or owner of a vehicle is not required to unload any part of the vehicle's load under Section 621.403 or 621.404 if...
- Texas Section 621.406 - Additional Gross Weight Registration
(a) If the gross weight of the motor vehicle is not heavier than the maximum gross weight allowed for the vehicle but is heavier than...
- Texas Section 621.407 - Forms; Accounting Procedures
The department shall prescribe all forms and accounting procedures necessary to carry out Sections 621.401 to 621.406. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1,...
- Texas Section 621.408 - Powers Of Weight Enforcement Officers
(a) Except for the authority granted to a port-of-entry supervisor or inspector by Section 621.409, weight enforcement officers have exclusive authority to enforce this subchapter...
- Texas Section 621.409 - Weighing Of Loaded Vehicles By Port-of-entry Supervisors, Inspectors, Or Weight Enforcement Officers
(a) A port-of-entry supervisor, an inspector employed by the Alcoholic Beverage Commission, or a weight enforcement officer who has reason to believe that the axle...
- Texas Section 621.410 - Weight Record
(a) This section applies only to cargo other than timber or another agricultural product in its natural state transported by a commercial motor vehicle. (b)...
SUBCHAPTER G OFFENSES AND PENALTIES
- Texas Section 621.411 - Joint Operation Of Certain Fixed-site Facilities
A county and the Department of Public Safety may enter into an agreement for the joint operation of a fixed-site facility located within the boundaries...
- Texas Section 621.501 - Failure To Carry Or Present Vehicle License Receipt
(a) A person commits an offense if the person fails in violation of Section 621.002 to carry or present a vehicle registration receipt. (b) An...
- Texas Section 621.502 - Prohibitions On Size And Weight; Restrictions On Construction And Equipment
(a) A person may not operate or move a vehicle on a highway if: (1) the vehicle's size is larger than the applicable maximum size...
- Texas Section 621.503 - Prohibition Of Loading More Than Weight Limitation
(a) A person may not load, or cause to be loaded, a vehicle for operation on a public highway of this state that exceeds the...
- Texas Section 621.504 - Bridge Or Underpass Clearance
A person may not operate or attempt to operate a vehicle over or on a bridge or through an underpass or similar structure unless the...
- Texas Section 621.506 - Offense Of Operating Or Loading Overweight Vehicle; Penalty; Defense
(a) A person commits an offense if the person: (1) operates a vehicle or combination of vehicles in violation of Section 621.101, 622.012, 622.031, 622.041,...
- Texas Section 621.507 - General Offense; Penalty
(a) A person commits an offense if the person violates a provision of this subtitle for which an offense is not specified by another section...
- Texas Section 621.508 - Affirmative Defense For Operating Vehicle Over Maximum Allowable Weight
(a) It is an affirmative defense to prosecution of, or an action under Subchapter F for, the offense of operating a vehicle with a single...
- Texas Section 621.509 - Failure To Maintain Weight Record
(a) A person commits an offense if the person fails to keep a weight record in violation of Section 621.410. (b) An offense under this...
- Texas Section 621.510 - Permit Void
A permit issued under this chapter is void on the failure of the owner or the owner's representative to comply with a rule of the...
Last modified: September 28, 2016