§ 15-37. Exemptions.

(a)

Farm and agricultural vehicles and equipment, except draglines, and bulldozers, being operated or transported for bona fide agricultural, agronomical, or horticultural purposes, landscaping, hardware store delivery operations, fertilizing tending units, or the transportation of farm vehicles and equipment to be used for normal farm purposes by persons transporting such farm equipment, or any type of agronomical machinery, for a distance not to exceed fifty (50) miles from point of origin, shall be exempted from section 15-32 to section 15-35.

(b)

Trailers and semi-trailers with a gross vehicle weight rating of not more than twelve thousand (12,000) pounds when owned and used by a retail business in this state and designed for the purpose of pick-up and delivery of new, used or repaired farm equipment for a distance not to exceed fifty (50) miles from point of origin shall be exempt from section 15-32.

(c)

Vehicles being operated to transport timber cutting or logging equipment from one (1) job site to another and the equipment being transported shall be exempt from section 15-32 to section 15-35 when the trailer upon which the equipment is being towed, is owned or leased by the same person.

(d)

Such farm vehicles and vehicles transporting cutting and logging equipment may use any Webster Parish road during the period from thirty (30) minutes after sunrise until thirty (30) minutes before sunset provided that such machinery or equipment shipped shall be equipped with front and rear reflector lights and with a blinking hazard light clearly visible from the front and rear during dusk/dawn and properly marked with flags during daylight.

(e)

Tracks which transport seed cotton modules or cotton from the field to the gin, or cottonseed from the gin to the mill shall be exempt from section 15-32 to section 15-35.

(f)

The first violation of this section shall be punishable by a fine of not more than one hundred seventy-five dollars ($175.00). A subsequent violation shall be punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00).

(Ord. No. 994, 8-3-2010; Ord. No. 994-Amend., 2-1-2011)