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2008 Florida Statutes

SECTION 525
Requirements for vehicles hauling loads.
Section 316.525, Florida Statutes 2008

316.525  Requirements for vehicles hauling loads.--

(1)  It is the duty of every owner, licensee, and driver, severally, of any truck, trailer, semitrailer, or pole trailer to use such stanchions, standards, stays, supports, or other equipment, appliances, or contrivances, together with one or more lock chains, when lock chains are the most suitable means of fastening the load, or together with nylon strapping, when nylon strapping is the most suitable means of securing the load, so as to fasten the load securely to the vehicle.

(2)  The Department of Transportation shall promulgate rules with respect to the type and suitability of nylon strapping to be used in compliance with this section.

(3)  A violation of this section is a noncriminal traffic infraction, punishable as a nonmoving violation as provided in chapter 318.

History.--s. 1, ch. 71-135; s. 1, ch. 76-31; ss. 1, 2, ch. 80-229; s. 190, ch. 81-259; s. 236, ch. 99-248.

Note.--Former s. 316.280.