WHEREAS, Arkansas Code Annotated 27 23-119 provides that regulations authorizing any waivers of commercial drivers licenses shall be formally adopted; and
WHEREAS, the Arkansas State Highway Commission is the agency responsible for making and promulgating such regulations; and
WHEREAS, the Commission by Minute Order 90-063, adopted March 14, 1990, established “Commercial Drivers License Regulations” which waived such licensing requirements for certain classes of drivers; and
WHEREAS, the Federal Highway Administration recently adopted regulations which permit the enlargement of those classes of drivers to include drivers employed by eligible units of local government operating commercial motor vehicles for the purposes of removing snow or ice from a roadway;
NOW THEREFORE, the Arkansas State Highway Commission hereby revises the “Commercial Drivers License Regulations” adopted by Minute Order 90-063 and establishes and adopts the attached “Commercial Driver License Regulations.”