Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:380

  • Farm tractor: means every motor vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm implement, for drawing plows, mowing machines, and other implements of husbandry. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
  • Highway: means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way or place of whatever nature publicly maintained and open to the use of the public for the purpose of vehicular travel, including bridges, causeways, tunnels and ferries; synonymous with the word "street". See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
  • Load: means a weight or quantity of anything resting upon something else regarded as its support. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
  • Secretary: means the secretary of the Department of Transportation and Development or his delegated or authorized representative. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
  • Vehicle: means every device by which persons or things may be transported upon a public highway or bridge, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
  • Width: means the total outside transverse dimension of a vehicle including any load or load holding devices thereon but excluding approved safety devices and tire bulge due to load. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1

A.  The width of any vehicle shall not exceed one hundred two inches, exclusive of safety devices.

B.  The load on any vehicle shall not project more than twelve inches beyond the width of its body.

C.  The width of a farm tractor shall not exceed nine feet.

D.  The secretary shall designate the qualifying highway system to which the foregoing width limitations shall apply.

E.  Repealed by Acts 2003, No. 347, §2.

Added by Acts 1977, No. 113, §1, eff. June 22, 1977.  Acts 1983, No. 416, §1; Acts 1990, No. 51, §1; Acts 1990, No. 896, §1; Acts 2003, No. 347, §§1 and 2.