304.200. Special permits for oversize or overweight loads--rules for issuing--when valid.
Special permits for oversize or overweight loads--rules forissuing--when valid.
304.200. 1. The chief engineer of the state department oftransportation, for good cause shown and when the public safety or publicinterest so justifies, shall issue special permits for vehicles orequipment exceeding the limitations on width, length, height and weightherein specified, or which are unable to maintain minimum speed limits.Such permits shall be issued only for a single trip or for a definiteperiod, not beyond the date of expiration of the vehicle registration, andshall designate the highways and bridges which may be used pursuant to theauthority of such permit.
2. The chief engineer of the state department of transportation shallupon proper application and at no charge issue a special permit to anyperson allowing the movement on state and federal highways of farm productsbetween sunset and sunrise not in excess of fourteen feet in width.Special permits allowing movement of oversize loads of farm products shallallow for movement between sunset and sunrise, subject to appropriaterequirements for safety lighting on the load, appropriate limits on loaddimensions and appropriate consideration of high traffic density betweensunset and sunrise on the route to be traveled. The chief engineer mayalso issue upon proper application a special permit to any person allowingthe movement on the state and federal highways of concrete pump trucks orwell-drillers equipment. For the purposes of this section, "farm products"shall have the same meaning as provided in section 400.9-109, RSMo.
3. Rules and regulations for the issuance of special permits shall beprescribed by the state highways and transportation commission and filedwith the secretary of state. No rule or portion of a rule promulgatedpursuant to the authority of section 304.010 and this section shall becomeeffective unless it has been promulgated pursuant to the provisions ofchapter 536, RSMo.
4. The officer in charge of the maintenance of the streets of anymunicipality may issue such permits for the use of the streets by suchvehicles within the limits of such municipalities.
5. In order to transport manufactured homes, as defined in section700.010, RSMo, on the roads, highways, bridges and other thoroughfareswithin this state, only the applicable permits required by this sectionshall be obtained.
(RSMo 1939 §§ 8384, 8405, 8406, A.L. 1943 p. 663, A. 1949 S.B. 1113, A.L. 1972 S.B. 546, A.L. 1979 S.B. 44, A.L. 1983 H.B. 539, A.L. 1985 S.B. 221 merged with S.B. 152, A.L. 1988 S.B. 686, A.L. 1989 S.B. 278, A.L. 1995 S.B. 3, A.L. 1996 S.B. 677, A.L. 2000 H.B. 1142 merged with H.B. 1948, A.L. 2002 H.B. 1270 and H.B. 2032 merged with S.B. 974)Prior revision: 1929 §§ 7776, 7787, 7788
CROSS REFERENCE:
Over-dimension and overweight motor vehicles or loads, authority of highways and transportation commission, RSMo 226.008