| (a) In accordance with Transportation Code, Chapters
621, 622, and 623, the department may issue permits for the operation
of oversize and/or overweight vehicles for:
(1) the transportation of a nondivisible load or vehicle
when the size or gross weight exceeds the limits allowed by law;
(2) the transportation of oversize portable building
units and portable building compatible cargo;
(3) the movement of oversize manufactured housing and
industrialized buildings;
(4) the movement of cylindrically shaped bales of hay;
and
(5) the movement of water well drilling machinery and
equipment.
(b) The issuance of a permit for an oversize and/or
overweight unit is not a guarantee by the department that the highways
can safely accommodate such movement. The transporter of a unit is
responsible for any damage caused to the state highway system or any
of its structures or appurtenances by movement of the unit, whether
or not the unit is permitted.
(c) The following sections in this subchapter set forth
the requirements and procedures applicable to those permits.
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| Source Note: The provisions of this §219.10 adopted to be effective October 13, 1994, 19 TexReg 7810; amended to be effective December 26, 1995, 20 TexReg 10656; amended to be effective January 8, 1998, 23 TexReg 155; amended to be effective February 21, 1999, 24 TexReg 1221; transferred effective January 1, 2012, as published in the Texas Register January 27, 2012, 37 TexReg 359; amended to be effective December 14, 2015, 40 TexReg 8900 |
