Arkansas Administrative Code › Agency 001 - ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION › Rule 001.00.14-001 - Permit Regulations for the Movement of Oversize and/or Overweight Vehicles on the Arkansas State Highway System

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, June, 2024
RULE
		  1
- GENERAL DEFINITIONS
A. C. A. means Arkansas Code Annotated.
CHIEF
means the Chief of the Arkansas Highway Police
			 Division of the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department.
COMMANDER
means the Arkansas Highway Police officer
			 in charge of the Arkansas Highway Police Permit Section.
COMMISSION
means the Arkansas State Highway
			 Commission (ASHC).
COMMISSIONER
means a member of the Arkansas State
			 Highway Commission.
DEPARTMENT
means the Arkansas Highway and
			 Transportation Department (AHTD).
DIRECTOR
means the Director of the Arkansas Highway
			 and Transportation Department.
DIVISION
means the Arkansas Highway Police Division
			 of Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department.
MANUFACTURED HOME UNIT
means a structure constructed
			 for use as a dwelling, office, or classroom which is more than eight feet (8')
			 in width or sixty feet (60') in length and is capable of being moved upon the
			 highways when combined with a pulling vehicle.
MANUFACTURED HOME UNIT WIDTH
means the largest
			 overall width of a manufactured home in the traveling mode, including bay
			 windows, roof projections, overhangs, or eaves under which there is no interior
			 space.
MASTER AGREEMENT
means a document executed by a
			 person wishing to transport a non-divisible overweight load on a weight
			 restricted highway.
MULTI-STATE ENVELOPE PERMIT
means a single trip
			 permit issued to a vehicle with a non-reducible load to travel through two or
			 more states within the Southeastern Association of State Highway and
			 Transportation Officials region.
OPERATOR
means a person who drives or is in actual
			 physical control of a motor vehicle upon a highway.
OVERWIDTH MANUFACTURED HOME UNIT
means a
			 manufactured home unit in excess of eight feet (8') in width.
PERMIT
means a document issued by the Permit
			 Section, which gives the bearer permission to move an oversize vehicle laden or
			 unladen along specific routes during a specified period of time with certain
			 restrictions. The term "permit" shall include electronic media displayed on a
			 mobile device provided that device shall have a screen size of at least seven
			 inches (7").
PERMIT SECTION
means the Permit Section of the
			 Arkansas Highway Police Division of the Arkansas Highway and Transportation
			 Department.
PERMITTEE
means the person to whom the Permit
			 Section has issued a permit.
PERSON
means a natural person, firm, partnership,
			 corporation, association, or any political subdivision of the State of
			 Arkansas.
POLICY
means an established procedure pertaining to
			 a specific activity of the Section, Division, Department or Commission.
STRUCTURE
means a building, either portable or
			 permanent, other than a manufactured home unit, which cannot be disassembled or
			 reduced in size without substantial damage to the structure, and
a) where any person lives or carries on a
		  business or other calling
b) where
		  people assemble for purposes of business, government, education, religion,
		  entertainment, or public transportation, or
c) which is customarily used for overnight
		  accommodation of persons, whether or not a person is actually present. Each
		  unit of a structure divided into separately occupied units is itself a
		  structure.
TRAVELED WAY
means the portion of the roadway for
			 the movement of vehicles, exclusive of shoulders and auxiliary lanes.
VEHICLES OF SPECIAL DESIGN
means any pneumatic or
			 rubber tired mobile construction vehicle or equipment carrying no load other
			 than its own weight that has been reduced in size and weight until further
			 reduction is impractical.
FOR PURPOSES OF THIS PUBLICATION, THE FOLLOWING TERMS ARE
			 CONSIDERED SYNONYMOUS:
(1)
		  LOAD;
(2) VEHICLE WITH
		  LOAD;
(3) LADEN
(4) VEHICLE OR CARGO;
(5) VEHICLE AND CARGOES