PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 474

CHAPTER 474
(House Bill 738)

AN ACT concerning

Vehicle Laws - Load Extensions - Front-End Loading Attachments — Exception

FOR the purpose of excepting a certain vehicle equipped with certain front-end loading
attachments and containers used in collecting garbage, rubbish, refuse, or recyclable
materials from a certain provision limiting the extent of a load on the front of a
certain vehicle to a certain length when the vehicle is actively engaged in collecting
garbage, rubbish, refuse, or recyclable materials; and generally relating to an
exception to the limit on the extent of a load on the front end of a vehicle.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Transportation
Section 24-105
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1992 Replacement Volume and 1996 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Transportation

24-105.

(a) This section does not apply to:

(1) Any vehicle carrying wooden prefabricated roof trusses in an inverted
position, if the trusses do not extend more than 10 feet beyond the rear of the bed or body
of the vehicle;

(2) A combination of vehicles carrying an indivisible load if the load is not
over 70 feet long, and the load is being transported during daylight hours; or

(3) Any vehicle or combination of vehicles carrying:

(i) Piling, poles, or mill logs;

(ii) Nursery stock; or

(iii) Crew or racing shells.

(b) Subject to the maximum length limits of § 24-104.1 of this subtitle, the load on
any vehicle operated alone or the load on the front vehicle of a combination of vehicles:

(1) EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH (2) OF THIS SUBSECTION, may
not extend more than 3 feet beyond the foremost part of the vehicle; AND

(2) MAY EXTEND MORE THAN 3 FEET BEYOND THE FOREMOST PART OF
A VEHICLE EQUIPPED WITH FRONT-END LOADING ATTACHMENTS AND

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