§ 47-14-121. Special combination vehicles - Permits.

A.  No person shall operate a special combination vehicle within this state without a special combination vehicle permit for the vehicle issued by the Department of Public Safety.  Such permit may be issued for operation upon Federal Aid Interstate Highways or four-lane divided Federal Aid Primary Highways and for access or egress between points of origin or destination.

B.  The Commissioner of Public Safety shall promulgate rules for the issuance of special combination vehicle permits and shall collect an annual fee of Two Hundred Forty Dollars ($240.00) for each such permit issued.  Except as provided in Section 4 of this act, fees collected pursuant to this section shall be remitted to the State Treasurer to be credited to the General Revenue Fund in the State Treasury.

C.  For the purposes of this section, a special combination vehicle shall consist of a truck-tractor semitrailer combination towing two complete trailers or semitrailers.  No semitrailer or trailer used in such a combination shall have a length greater than twenty-nine (29) feet nor shall a special combination vehicle exceed the weight limitations imposed by Sections 14-109 and 14-116 of this title.

Added by Laws 1986, c. 37, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1986.  Amended by Laws 1987, c. 5, § 161, emerg. eff. March 11, 1987; Laws 2010, c. 428, § 3, eff. July 1, 2010.