The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-07
CHAPTER 1907


AN ACT TO Amend Section IL,
CHAPTER 14764. Laws of Florida Acts
Of 1891. Being Section 1885 I'D Com
piled General Laws of Florida. 1927,
supplement Therefor. Relating to
Vehicles Operated bv Auto Trans
portatiOn Companies and Prescribing
the Maximum Size and Weight of
Thereof and Safety Devices Re-
Guired
lie IL Enacted by the Legislature of
The State of Florida:
Sec !. Section IL of Chapter 14764,
Laws OF Florida. Acts of 1881, be-
lng Section 1885 I'D. Compiled Gen
eral Laws Of Florida. 1927, Supple
nent theretOD. be and the same is
hereby amended TO read as follows ::
Section IL No certificate of public
convenience and necessity in COM
mon carriage shall be issued by the
commission for the operation on any
public highway in this State of any
motor vehicle exceeding the follow
ing dimensions and specifications as
10 size and weight limitations
ca Width including body. frame
or load-96 inches.
tb) Height including body frame
or lOad-l2ia feet.
tcl Length including body, frame
or load:
!. Single vehicle-35 feet.
,. Combination of vehicles As
feet.
Provided. however. that the Rail-
road Commission shall have author
itY 10 prescribe height of less than
twelve and a half feet for vehicles
authorized TO be operated over the
road where any physical conditions
require a lesser height; and provided.
that length including load. body or
frame of forty-five feet for a COM
binatiOn Of vehicles shall not be
deemed By the commission or applied
bv L. TO exclude from the public
highways of this State equipment &C
tually IN use thereon and for which
authority 10 operate from the Rail
road Commission has been secured
prior TO June /. 1881: Provided. such
equipment is now within the limits
prescribed by law and such combi-
nation Of vehicles is in no event
of greater length including body,
frame or load than fifty feet: and
Provided further. that as to such
equipment and any unit thereof no
repairs except running repairs and
no requirements of essential or ma
1or parts shall be permitted. il be-
inE the purpose of this provision to
exclude from the highways of this
State equipment that does not con-
TINS Section and at the same time
10 allow a reasonable time for the
use Of equipment now on the high
WAYS that may not comply with the
provisions Of this Section and which
has been actually acquired and &C
fuaily IN use on the highways of this
State prior 10 the first day of June,
1881. and Provided, that no combi-
nation Of vehicles including a trail
er shall be authorized under any
certificate or permit unless both
truck and trailer are equipped with
driver control airbrakes. electric
brakes or vacuum booster brakes)
furnishing ready and efficient driver
control Of trailer as well as truck
and no combination of vehicles shall
include more than one trailer. and
Provided further. that no trailer be
authorized by any certificate or per-
nat except when such trailer. in ad-
oition 10 airbrakes. electric brakes)
or vacuum booster brakes), here
inabOve provided. shall be coupled
with approved coupling device so de-
signed and so used as to prevent
deviation IN trackage by said trailer
OF more than three inches except
@nen turning or rounding curves.
No passenger carrying bus shall
b authorized under any certificate
q public convenience and necessity
81 greater vehicle weight than
eighteen thousand pounds: Provided,
ma where such vehicle is equipped
with modern airbrakes or vacuum
booster brakes and dual wheels with
pneumatic tires meeting the reoiure-
ments Of the commission as to road
surface contact. a maximum gross
weight not exceeding thirty thousand
pounds shall be allowed.