OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS 

AUSTIN 

Honorable Ynrphy Cole 

County Auditor 

Liberty County 

Liberty, Texas 

mar Sir: 

14. 1939, in rrh 

ment relative to 

letter of Angaat 

on or this attpsrtes permitted under 

11'8 Annotated Texas 

111 336, chapter &3a, 

gular Session, Forty- 

*Ho train or qombinaa 0pmda alone shall 

more than three (3) feet 

aor, exaept, baa hereln- 

&I r0ui (4) red beyond 

r the 8a.818 nOUS Bill 336 &VU8 

issuance or a speofal petit rot 

or combination or rehiales to exceed 

6r 45 feet. 

*The question which we wish answered ia this: 

Does a special. permit whiah allows a length of 

more than 45 feet Imply the right of aarrier to 

haal a load nhlah wi-11 extend more than 3 feet in 

front or more than 4 feet in the rear of hia vehick?" 
Honorable lturphy Cole, Page 2 

so much 0r seotion 2 0r Artiole 827a as is pertii;. 

nent reeds as rollows: + 

"It shall be unlawful aa aonstitute a misaemanor ror any person to drive, operate or move 

or for the owner to aaase or permit to be driven, 

operated, or moved on any highway, any rehlole or 

vehiales or a sine or weight exaeeaing the llmltatlons stated in this Act or any vehiale or vehicles whlah are not oonstruated or equipped as 

required in this Act, or to transport thereon any 

load or loads exceedlag the dimensions or weight 

pmSt3ribea in this Aat; provided the department, 

aoting direatly orthrough its agent or agents 

designating In each aounty shall have aud is hereby granted authority to grant permits llmltea to 

periods of ninety (90) days or less ror the transportation over state highways of suah overweight 

or oversize or overlength aommodities as eannot 

be reasonably dismantled or for the operation 

over state highways or super-heavy and oreraise 

equipment for the transportation or suah orers%e 

or overweight or orerlength oomamdities as aannot be reasonably dismantled; . . .O 

Article 827a, Section 3, paragraph a, reads as 

r0im8: 

%o motor rehiale, commeroial motor rehicle, trnak-trailer, trailer, or semi-trailer 

shall exceed a length or thirty-rive (35) r60t, 

and no combination of sash rehiales coupled tegather shall ssaeed a total length of fortyrive (4.5) feet, unless such vehicle or aomblnations of vehiales is operated exaluelvely w%thin the limits of an incorporated city or town." 

As you have indiaated In the quoted portion of 

your letter, Seatlon 2 of Artlale 827a makes prorisions 

ror the issuance of speoial permits for the operation over 

state highways or oversized equipment in the event such 

equipment is necessary ror the transportatfon 0r a-rweight, oversired or orerlength aomnodities wh%ah aannot 

be reasonably dismantled.: This provision creates an exception to the length speoiiied In paragraph Q 0r aeotion 

3, Article 827a, ror vehicles and .a combination ei tehloles. 
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Eonorablo b%rphycolele,Fages 

ale 8g7a, 

You will note that paragraph d. Saatioti 3, Artlprovides that'na rehlale or aomblnatlon et vehi0108 shall aarry a load whioh extends more than thraa 

r6et beyond the front thereofnor "axoapt as herelnbefora 

toYbled 

t!zzimf 

more then ioar feet bemad the mar th6MOi' 

ng togather all or the above-quoted atatatorl, &avIaions we llnd that the Legislators prohlblted any vahlole or oomblnatlon 0r vehlalea rr0la oarrying a i0aa 

rhiah extended core than thrae r80t beyond the rront or 

the vahlola or aomblnatloa and did aot provide ror any 

ueeptloa to thla raqalremsst, bat the wardfng or paragraph d, Saatlon 3, Artlola &37a, makes it aqaallr olaar 

that the Laglalatura did antlalpate that an ovarlagf;h 

icurd ml&t extend sum than r00r r06t beyond tha re+r 0r 

thb aMwayin& vehicle Of oombinatlon.or vehlalea. 

It Is, theraZWe, the opinion or this Dapartmant 

that a apeofal permit ror the~operat1on of an overl6a&h 

vehlole boas aot *ly the rlghti 0r a oarrier to haal a 

lOad rhioh extends mora than three feet beyond the imnt 

br th6 vehlale. On ths other hand, a pualt ror the tranaportatloa 0r oterleqth 6ommedlti68 or r0r the bpemticin 

or overalaa .eqalwt ior the traasportatlon 09 aaoh ovarlength oammoditlea doas oarry with it as an inaldental pr&vileg. the rlghttoertsn(lt~lloa6iias~as~ry,moretban 

tom rw rror th6 rear 0r mob ~0hf0~0. 

. 

The other qaaatlon presented tD y-oar 16thr raqaeats that na det.enafn6 what la meant by the *rear* or 

a vehlolm amd we prmeame that you rerar to th6 .lan@iage 

or pongmph d, Seatloa S or Artlola BaOa, wa ragret to 

advise you that th6 Issue rhloh yea hare prosant i6 008 

parely or llaot and la not a aubjoot apoa which this Mpartmeat ean attain* tQ mnder an oplnloa. 

Year6 very traly 

APPROVED8EP 16, 19% 

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ATTORNEY GENERAL OS TEXAS 

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