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TITLE 37 PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONS
PART 1TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
CHAPTER 4COMMERCIAL VEHICLE REGULATIONS AND ENFORCEMENT PROCEDURES
SUBCHAPTER BREGULATIONS GOVERNING TRANSPORTATION SAFETY
RULE §4.12Exemptions and Exceptions
ISSUE 06/18/2004
ACTION Proposed
Preamble Texas Admin Code Rule
(a)(No change.)

 (b)Exceptions. Exceptions adopted by the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety not specified in Texas Transportation Code, §644.053, are as follows:

  (1)(No change.)

   (2)Drivers of vehicles under this section operating in intrastate transportation shall not be permitted to drive after having worked and/or driven for 70 hours in any consecutive seven-day period. A driver may restart a consecutive seven-day period after taking 34 or more consecutive hours off-duty.

  (3)Drivers of vehicles operating in intrastate transportation claiming the 150 air mile radius exemption in subsection (a)(4) of this section must return to the work reporting location; [and] be released from work within 12 consecutive hours; and have at least 8 consecutive hours off-duty separating each 12 hours on-duty.

  (4) - (8)(No change.)

This agency hereby certifies that the proposal has been reviewed by legal counsel and found to be within the agency's legal authority to adopt.

Filed with the Office of the Secretary of State on June 2, 2004

TRD-200403659

Thomas A. Davis, Jr.

Director

Texas Department of Public Safety

Earliest possible date of adoption: July 18, 2004

For further information, please call: (512) 424-2135

 

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