{"id":1226,"date":"2019-03-12T02:49:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T02:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2019\/03\/12\/tx-attorney-general-opinion-truck-weight-enforcement\/"},"modified":"2019-03-12T02:49:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T02:49:00","slug":"tx-attorney-general-opinion-truck-weight-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/tx-attorney-general-opinion-truck-weight-enforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"TX Attorney General Opinion. Truck Weight Enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/opinions\/opinions\/51paxton\/op\/2019\/kp0245.pdf?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">KP-0245<\/a>\u00a0there was a question about how local law enforcement can enforce truck weight enforcment. Here&#8217;s the big picture:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maybe there is some confusion, but its likely the Transportation Code Chapters 621 &amp; 251 governs, so follow those rules<\/li>\n<li>Local Law enforcment has to be authorized by TXDOT<\/li>\n<li>TXDOt can also revok local law enforcement authority<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/opinions\/opinions\/51paxton\/op\/2019\/kp0245.pdf?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">KP-0245<\/a>\u00a0there was a question about how local law enforcement can enforce truck weight enforcment. Here&#8217;s the big picture:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maybe there is some confusion, but its likely the Transportation Code Chapters 621 &amp; 251 governs, so follow those rules<\/li>\n<li>Local Law enforcment has to be authorized by TXDOT<\/li>\n<li>TXDOt can also revok local law enforcement authority<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,26,45,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attorney-general","category-regulatory-trend","category-trucking","category-txdot","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}