Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 195

MOTOR VEHICLES

INCREASING PERMISSIBLE ACTUAL WEIGHT OF MOTOR VEHICLES

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 165 REVISED CODE OF DELAWARE, 1935, RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES BY INCREASING THE PERMISSIBLE ACTUAL WEIGHT OF SAID MOTOR VEHICLES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:

Section 1. That 5655. Sec. 117 of Article 5 Chapter 165, Revised Code of Delaware, 1935, be and the same is hereby amended by striking out all of the last line of subparagraph (d) of said section reading as follows

Thirty-eight thousand (38,000) pounds, and inserting in lieu thereof the following:-

Forty thousand (40,000) pounds.

Section 2. That said 5655. Sec. 117 Article 5 Chapter 165, Revised Code of Delaware, 1935, be further amended by adding a new paragraph at the end of said section to be known and styled as subparagraph (g) reading as follows :

It shall be lawful to operate a vehicle equipped with two axles, with a power brake on each rear hub having a gross weight including vehicle and load, of not more than thirty thousand (30,000) pounds.

Approved March 18, 1943.