Ch. 17  1999 LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 17
(Senate Bill 44)

AN ACT concerning

Commercial Vehicles - Ban on Hazardous Material Hauling for Combination

Trailers - Repeal

FOR the purpose of repealing a prohibition against transporting certain hazardous
materials on certain tractor-trailer combination vehicles.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article - Transportation

Section 24-104.2(a) 

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1998 Replacement Volume and 1998 Supplement) 

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Transportation
Section 24-104.2(c)
Annotated Code of Maryland

(1998 Replacement Volume and 1998 Supplement)

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

Article - Transportation

24-104.2.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title and subject to subsections
(b), (c), and (d) of this section, a person may operate a semitrailer (single) in
combination with a truck tractor that exceeds 48 feet in length up to a length not to
exceed 53 feet.

(c) A vehicle combination operating under this section may operate in this
State only under the following conditions:

(1) The wheelbase of the semitrailer, measured as the distance from the
kingpin to the center of the rear tandem axles, may not exceed 41 feet in length.

(2) The kingpin setback, measured as the distance from the kingpin to
the front of the semitrailer, may not exceed 4 feet in length.

(3) The rear overhang, measured as the distance from the center of the
rear tandem axles to the rear of the semitrailer, may not exceed 35 percent of the
wheelbase of the semitrailer.

(4) (i) The width of the semitrailer shall be at least 96 inches and not
more than 102 inches.