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Vehicles: length limitations: livestock vehicles.

This bill did not become law and its session has ended, so it can no longer move. It would have to be reintroduced.

CA SB 478 · Senate Bill · 2013–2014

Stage
Session ended
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Senate
Sponsor
1
Latest action
Feb 3, 2014

What it does

Existing law generally prohibits a vehicle from exceeding a length of 40 feet, and a combination of vehicles from exceeding a total length of 65 feet, with various specific exceptions. Existing law exempts from these requirements a truck tractor and semitrailer combination, when operating on certain highways qualified by the United States Secretary of Transportation for that use or when using routes appropriately identified by the Department of Transportation or local authorities, if the semitrailer does not exceed 53 feet in length and, if configured with 2 or more axles, the rearmost axle is 40 feet or less from the kingpin, or when configured with a single axle, the axle is 38 feet or…

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Where it stands

This bill did not become law and its session has ended, so it can no longer move. It would have to be reintroduced.

  1. Introduced (Current step)

    Introduced · Feb 3, 2014

  2. Committee (Needs attention)

    The session ended first

  3. Floor (Not started)

  4. Law (Not started)

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