HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                                  Bill No. HB 1213

    Amendment No. 001 (for drafter's use only)

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11  The Committee on Transportation offered the following:

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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 10, between lines 29 and 30,

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17         Section 7.  Section 316.520, Florida Statutes, is

18  amended to read:

19         316.520  Loads on vehicles.--

20         (1)  A vehicle may not be driven or moved on any

21  highway unless the vehicle is so constructed or loaded as to

22  prevent any of its load from dropping, shifting, leaking,

23  blowing, or otherwise escaping therefrom, except that sand may

24  be dropped only for the purpose of securing traction or water

25  or other substance may be sprinkled on a roadway in cleaning

26  or maintaining the roadway.

27         (2)  It is the duty of every owner and driver,

28  severally, of any vehicle hauling, upon any public road or

29  highway open to the public, dirt, sand, lime rock, gravel,

30  silica, or other similar aggregate or trash, garbage, or any

31  similar material that could fall or blow from such vehicle, to

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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                                  Bill No. HB 1213

    Amendment No. 001 (for drafter's use only)





  1  prevent such materials from falling, blowing, or in any way

  2  escaping from such vehicle. Covering and securing the load

  3  with a close-fitting tarpaulin or other appropriate cover is

  4  required.

  5         (3)  A violation of this section is a noncriminal

  6  traffic infraction, punishable as a moving nonmoving violation

  7  as provided in chapter 318.

  8         (4)  This section does not apply to vehicles carrying

  9  agricultural products locally from a field harvest site to a

10  farm storage site or to a farm feed lot on roads where the

11  posted speed limit is 65 miles per hour or less and the

12  distance driven or public roads is less than 20 miles.

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16  And the title is amended as follows:

17         On page 1, line 24, after the first semicolon,

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20         amending s. 316.520, F.S.; clarifying that a

21         violation of a provision governing loads on

22         vehicles is a moving rather than a nonmoving

23         violation; exempting certain vehicles carrying

24         agricultural products; providing an effective

25         date;

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