55-7-116 - Criteria for selecting truck weigh-inspection station sites. - Tennessee Statutes

55-7-116. Criteria for selecting truck weigh-inspection station sites.

The department of transportation shall use the following criteria to select the site of truck weigh-inspection stations:

     (1)  Ability to intercept maximum number of trucks;

     (2)  Resistance to being bypassed by trucks;

     (3)  Proximity of services;

     (4)  Cost of construction of and right-of-way to the station;

     (5)  Avoidance of adverse alignment of the through lanes;

     (6)  Adequate spacing from interchanges and bridges;

     (7)  Effect on environment; and

     (8)  Facilitation of enforcement.

[Acts 1992, ch. 756, § 1.]