HB 1243 - AS INTRODUCED
2001 SESSION
05/10
HOUSE BILL 1243
AN ACT relative to safety devices required for transporting logs, lumber, or timber.
SPONSORS: Rep. Leber, Merr 1; Rep. Scanlan, Graf 11; Sen. Burns, Dist 1
This bill permits a vehicle-mounted loading device to be used in conjunction with other binding devices to secure a load of logs, lumber, or timber.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
01-2236
05/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One
AN ACT relative to safety devices required for transporting logs, lumber, or timber.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Equipment of Vehicles; Safety Devices Required for Transporting; Binding Devices; Use of Vehicle-Mounted Loading Devices. Amend RSA 266:66 to read as follows:
266:66 Binding Devices. No motor truck, trailer or semi-trailer, while being used to transport a load of logs, lumber or timber, the height of which with load is greater than 8 feet and the length of whose load is greater than 8 feet shall be driven on the ways of this state unless each such load on each such unit is bound by 3 chains, or wire ropes, or steel cables, or steel straps or nylon webbing devices together with binders. Chains shall be made of not less than 3/8 inch wire; wire ropes, steel cables, steel straps or nylon webbing devices shall have a capacity of at least 2,750 pounds working load limit as rated by the manufacturer. All chains, wire ropes, steel cables, steel straps or nylon webbing devices used to secure the above loads shall be bound firmly in place and properly spaced to secure the load. A vehicle-mounted loading device may be used in conjunction with chains, wire ropes, steel cables, steel straps, or nylon webbing devices to secure the load provided that the resulting securement system meets the requirements of this subdivision and 49 C.F.R. 393, subpart I, regarding protection against shifting or falling cargo.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.