HSB 256

The bill requires the DOT to submit a report to the general assembly in electronic form on or before December 31, 2021, regarding the status of the development and implementation of the system. RAW FOREST PRODUCTS.457; the container is sealed for international shipment and is either in route for export to a foreign country or in route to the container’s destination from a foreign country; documentation is carried in the vehicle, in written or electronic form, that ties the container being moved to the container listed in the documentation using the unique container number marked on the container; and the container’s contents are exclusively raw forest products. The bill requires the documentation carried in the vehicle to clearly state the foreign country of origin or destination, and to be provided to a peace officer upon request. _____ of raw forest products from fields to storage, processing, or other commercial facilities. The annual permit fee is $175.7.7 limits the gross weight on any one axle to 20,000 pounds and the gross weight on any one tandem axle having at least four tires to 46,000 pounds.457. The bill also prohibits a vehicle or combination of vehicles for which a permit is issued under the bill from traveling on any portion of the interstate highway system. The bill provides that such a permit issued by the DOT is valid for operation on nonprimary highways if the local authority having jurisdiction over the nonprimary highway has approved the route within the local authority’s jurisdiction used by the vehicle or combination of vehicles traveling under the permit. The bill defines “raw forest products” to mean logs, pilings, posts, poles, cordwood products, wood chips, sawdust, pulpwood, intermediary lumber, fuel wood, mulch, tree bark, and Christmas trees not altered by a manufacturing process off the land, sawmill, or factory from which the products were taken.