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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 541 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1958 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 1989, chapter 727.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":228813,"object_type":"law","relational_id":85134,"identifier":"46.2-1103","token":"46.2\/III\/10\/14\/46.2-1103","url":"\/46.2-1103\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/46.2-1103\/","token":"46.2\/III\/10\/14\/46.2-1103","dublin_core":{"Title":"Greater size, weight, and load limits permitted by interstate commerce regulations","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 46.2-1103","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>If a federal regulation of interstate commerce permits the use in interstate commerce over the <span class=\"dictionary\"><span class=\"dictionary\">highways<\/span><\/span> of Virginia or any of them, of a greater size, weight, or load limit than prescribed in this title, the Board shall prescribe a similar size, weight, and load limit for <span class=\"dictionary\">vehicles<\/span> in intrastate commerce operated over the same <span class=\"dictionary\"><span class=\"dictionary\">highways<\/span><\/span>.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nGREATER SIZE, WEIGHT, AND LOAD LIMITS PERMITTED BY INTERSTATE COMMERCE\nREGULATIONS (\u00a7 46.2-1103)\n\nIf a federal regulation of interstate commerce permits the use in interstate\ncommerce over the highways of Virginia or any of them, of a greater size,\nweight, or load limit than prescribed in this title, the Board shall prescribe a\nsimilar size, weight, and load limit for vehicles in intrastate commerce\noperated over the same highways.\n\nHISTORY: 1958, c. 541, \u00a7 46.1-344; 1989, c. 727.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}