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Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following:
‘Resolve, To Assist Maine's Forest Products Industry’
Amend the bill in the last paragraph of the emergency preamble in the last line (page 1, line 18 in L.D.) by inserting after the following: "therefore," the following: 'be it'
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the emergency preamble and before the emergency clause and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 1 Gross vehicle weight limits for 6-axle combination vehicles carrying forest products. Resolved: That, notwithstanding the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 29-A, section 2354 or 2357, on and after the effective date of this section but before April 1, 2008, a vehicle otherwise subject to the weight limit established in section 2354, subsection 2 is subject to a temporary tolerance and is not in violation of that weight limit if the vehicle is carrying forest products and its gross vehicle weight is less than 105,000 pounds. This temporary tolerance does not otherwise affect the application of the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 29-A, section 2354 or 2357 or the base fine for vehicles that exceed this temporary tolerance.’
 
SUMMARY
This amendment changes the act to a resolve and changes the title to reflect the change. The amendment provides that, on and after the effective date of this resolve but before April 1, 2008, a 6-axle combination vehicle that is registered for 100,000 pounds is not in violation of that weight limit if the vehicle is carrying forest products and its gross vehicle weight is less than 105,000 pounds.