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[CITE: 49USC31114]

 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
             SUBTITLE VI--MOTOR VEHICLE AND DRIVER PROGRAMS
 
                           PART B--COMMERCIAL
 
              CHAPTER 311--COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY
 
               SUBCHAPTER II--LENGTH AND WIDTH LIMITATIONS
 
Sec. 31114. Access to the Interstate System

    (a) Prohibition on Denying Access.--A State may not enact or enforce 
a law denying to a commercial motor vehicle subject to this subchapter 
or subchapter I of this chapter reasonable access between--
        (1) the Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense 
    Highways (except a segment exempted under section 31111(f) or 
    31113(e) of this title) and other qualifying Federal-aid Primary 
    System highways designated by the Secretary of Transportation; and
        (2) terminals, facilities for food, fuel, repairs, and rest, and 
    points of loading and unloading for household goods carriers, motor 
    carriers of passengers, or any truck tractor-semitrailer combination 
    in which the semitrailer has a length of not more than 28.5 feet and 
    that generally operates as part of a vehicle combination described 
    in section 31111(c) of this title.

    (b) Exception.--This section does not prevent a State or local 
government from imposing reasonable restrictions, based on safety 
considerations, on a truck tractor-semitrailer combination in which the 
semitrailer has a length of not more than 28.5 feet and that generally 
operates as part of a vehicle combination described in section 31111(c) 
of this title.

(Pub. L. 103-272, Sec. 1(e), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 999.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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31114(a)..............................  49 App.:2312(a).                 Jan. 6
, 1983, Pub. L. 97-424, Sec.
                                                                          412, 
96 Stat. 2160; Oct. 30, 1984,
                                                                          Pub. 
L. 98-554, Secs.  104(c), 106, 98
                                                                          Stat.
 2831, 2832; Dec. 18, 1991, Pub.
                                                                          L. 10
2-240, Sec.  4006(b)(2), 105
                                                                          Stat.
 2151.
31114(b)..............................  49 App.:2312(b).
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    In subsection (a), the words ``Dwight D. Eisenhower System of 
Interstate and Defense Highways'' are substituted for ``Interstate and 
Defense Highway System'' for consistency in the revised chapter.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 31112 of this title; title 23 
section 127.
