Florida Senate - 2025                                    SB 1502
       
       
        
       By Senator Collins
       
       
       
       
       
       14-00798A-25                                          20251502__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to special mobile equipment; amending
    3         s. 316.003, F.S.; revising the definition of the term
    4         “special mobile equipment”; amending s. 316.550, F.S.;
    5         authorizing the Department of Transportation to issue
    6         a mobile crane special blanket permit for certain
    7         purposes; providing an effective date.
    8          
    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Subsection (83) of section 316.003, Florida
   12  Statutes, is amended to read:
   13         316.003 Definitions.—The following words and phrases, when
   14  used in this chapter, shall have the meanings respectively
   15  ascribed to them in this section, except where the context
   16  otherwise requires:
   17         (83) SPECIAL MOBILE EQUIPMENT.—Any vehicle not designed or
   18  used primarily for the transportation of persons or property and
   19  only incidentally operated or moved over a highway, including,
   20  but not limited to, ditchdigging apparatus, well-boring
   21  apparatus, and road construction and maintenance machinery, such
   22  as asphalt spreaders, bituminous mixers, bucket loaders,
   23  tractors other than truck tractors, ditchers, leveling graders,
   24  finishing machines, motor graders, road rollers, scarifiers,
   25  earthmoving carryalls and scrapers, power shovels and draglines,
   26  mobile and self-propelled cranes and accessory support vehicles,
   27  and earthmoving equipment. The term does not include house
   28  trailers, dump trucks, truck-mounted transit mixers, cranes or
   29  shovels, or other vehicles designed for the transportation of
   30  persons or property to which machinery has been attached.
   31         Section 2. Subsection (3) of section 316.550, Florida
   32  Statutes, is amended to read:
   33         316.550 Operations not in conformity with law; special
   34  permits.—
   35         (3) Notwithstanding subsection (2), the Department of
   36  Transportation may issue a mobile crane special blanket permit
   37  for any of the following purposes:
   38         (a) To authorize a mobile crane to operate on and A permit
   39  may authorize a self-propelled truck crane operating off the
   40  Interstate Highway System while towing to tow a motor vehicle
   41  that which does not weigh more than 5,000 pounds if the combined
   42  weight of the crane and such motor vehicle does not exceed
   43  95,000 pounds. Notwithstanding s. 320.01(7) or (12), mobile
   44  truck cranes that tow another motor vehicle under the provision
   45  of this subsection shall be taxed under the provisions of s.
   46  320.08(5)(b).
   47         (b) To authorize a mobile crane and accessory support
   48  vehicles that are up to 12 feet in width, 14 feet 6 inches in
   49  height, and 100 feet in length to operate on and off the
   50  Interstate Highway System at all hours except as restricted
   51  under a curfew.
   52         (c) To authorize a mobile crane and accessory support
   53  vehicles which, due to the vehicles’ design for special use, are
   54  in excess of the weight limits established in s. 316.535 to
   55  operate on and off the Interstate Highway System.
   56         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.