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 PUBLIC LAW 97-424—JAN. 6, 1983 minimal levels of financial responsibility established under this section apply shall have evidence of such financial responsibility in such motor vehicle at any time such person is providing such transportation. "(B) The Secretary of Transportation and the Secretary of the Treasury shall deny entry into the United States of any motor vehicle in which there is not evidence of financial responsibility required to be in such vehicle under subparagraph (A) of this paragraph.". (c) Section 30(g) of the Motor Carrier Act of 1980 is amended by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as paragraphs (2) and (3), respectively, and by inserting before paragraph (2) (as so redesignated) the following new paragraph: "(1) Interstate commerce' includes transportation between a place in a State and a place outside the United States, to the extent such transportation is in the United States;". (d) Section 30(f) of the Motor Carrier Act of 1980 is amended to read as follows: "(f) This section shall not apply to any motor vehicle having a gross vehicle weight rating of less than ten thousand pounds, if such vehicle is not used to transport any quantity of cleiss A or B explosives, any quantity of poison gas, or a large quantity of radioactive materials in interstate or foreign commerce.".

96 STAT. 2159

49 USC 10927 note.

"Interstate commerce."

PART B—COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE LENGTH LIMITATION LENGTH U M I T A T I O N S ON FEDERALLY ASSISTED HIGHWAYS

SEC. 411. (a) No State shall establish, maintain, or enforce any regulation of commerce which imposes a vehicle length limitation of less than forty-eight feet on the length of the semitrailer unit operating in a truck tractor-semitrailer combination, and of less than twenty-eight feet on the length of any semitrailer or trailer operating in a truck tractor-semitrailer-trailer combination, on any segment of the Nationsil System of Interstate and Defense Highways and those classes of qualifying Federal-aid Primary System highways as designated by the Secretary, pursuant to subsection (e) of this section. (b) Length limitations established, maintained, or enforced by the States under subsection (a) of this section shall apply solely to the semitrailer or trailer or trailers and not to a truck tractor. No State shall establish, maintain, or enforce any regulation of commerce which imposes an overall length limitation on commercial motor vehicles operating in truck-tractor semitrailer or truck tractor semitrailer, trailer combinations. No State shall establish, maintain, or enforce any regulation of commerce which has the effect of prohibiting the use of trailers or semitrailers of such dimensions as those that were in actual and lawful use in such State on December 1, 1982. No State shall establish, maintain, or enforce any regulation of commerce which has the effect of prohibiting the use of existing trailers or semitrailers, of up to twenty-eight and one-half feet in length, in a truck tractor-semitrailer-trailer combination if those trailers or semitrailers were actually and lawfully operating on December 1, 1982, within a sixty-five-foot overall length limit in any State. (c) No State shall prohibit commercial motor vehicle combinations consisting of a truck tractor and two trailing units on any segment

49 USC 2311.

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