HARRY HUGHES, Governor                              4303

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
read(s) as follows:

Article - Transportation

24-104.1.

(a)  For purposes of this section, the length of a
vehicle includes its front and rear bumpers and any part of
its load that extends beyond the vehicle.

(b)  (1) This section does not. apply to any vehicle or
combination of vehicles carrying:

(i) Piling, poles, or mill logs; or

(ii) Crew or racing shells.

(2) This section does not prohibit the use of a
combination of vehicles to carry an indivisible load that is
not over 70 feet long.

(c)  Except as otherwise provided in this section:

(1)  A single unit truck may not be over 40 feet
long;

(2)  A publicly owned rigid bus may not be over
41 feet long;

(3)  A publicly owned articulated three-axle bus
may not be over 56 feet long; and

(4)  Any other vehicle or combination of vehicles
may not be over 55 feet long.

(D) IF IT IS HAULING, OR IS TRAVELING EMPTY OR WITH
POULTRY CAGES TO OR FROM HAULING, LIVE POULTRY ANYWHERE
WITHIN THE COUNTIES OF CAROLINE, CECIL, DORCHESTER, KENT,
QUEEN ANNE'S, SOMERSET, TALBOT, WICOMICO, AND WORCESTER, A
TRUCK TRACTOR AND SEMITRAILER COMBINATION WITH A COMBINED
LENGTH OF NOT MORE THAN 60 FEET MAY BE USED.

[(d)] (E) If it is carrying motor vehicles, a tractor
and semitrailer combination with a combined length of not
more than 55 feet, exclusive of the overhang of the
transported vehicles, may be used.

[(e)] (F) (1) A combination of a truck tractor,
semitrailer, and trailer with a combined length of not more
than 65 feet may be driven on a highway with four or more
lanes or while going by the shortest route between such a
highway and a truck terminal of origin or destination.