Source: http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB3089%20intr.htm&yr=2005&sesstype=RS&i=3089
Timestamp: 2018-03-21 03:48:08
Document Index: 198038876

Matched Legal Cases: ['§17', '§17', '§24', '§17', '§17', '§24']

HB3089 intr
(By Delegates Boggs, R.M. Thompson, Butcher
and Tansil)
[Originating in the Committee on Roads and Transportation.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §17C-17A-3, §17C-17A-12 and §24A-1A-2 of the code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to adding representatives to the trucking advisory committee; providing that committee with oversight with respect to commercial motor vehicle weight and safety enforcement; and adding routes to the coal resource transportation road system in Braxton and Webster counties.
That §17C-17A-3, §17C-17A-12 and §24A-1A-2 of the code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted, all to read as follows:
(a) The division of highways shall establish all legal vehicle weight limits for all public highways including roads within the coal resource transportation road system. Public highways shall be designated as coal resource transportation roads by the commissioner of the division of highways pursuant to this article. Only state-maintained roads and public highways found in the following areas: Boone; Fayette; Lincoln; Logan; McDowell; Mercer; Mingo; Raleigh; Wayne and Wyoming counties; in Braxton county, Braxton county route 19/29 from Mine 5 haulroad to intersection of County Route 36/1, county route 36/1 to intersection of county route 36 and county route 36 to the Webster County line (Webster County route 9); in Greenbrier County, routes west of Sam Black Church and southwest to the Summers County line; in Clay County, routes 4 and 16; in Nicholas County, routes 16, 19, 20, 39, 41, 55 abd 82; in Webster County, routes 9, 9-1, 20, 32 and 82; and all state-maintained roads and public highways found in Washington, Malden, Louden and Cabin Creek districts, Kanawha County, are eligible to qualify as part of the coal resource transportation road system. The division shall post signs on roads informing the public of the designation and shall also list a toll-free telephone line for public reporting of poor driving or law violations by special permit operators. The division shall provide periodic reports to the commercial motor vehicle weight and safety enforcement advisory committee as established in section two, article one-a, chapter twenty-four-a of this code relating to the study of coal resource transportation roads. The periodic reports shall include the following at a minimum: (1) Citations issued for violations of this chapter; (2) disposition of the violations; (3) road conditions and maintenance; and (4) the amount of undue road damage attributable to coal resource transportation road system permit use.
(a) From those counties and districts described in subdivision (a), section two three of this article, the commissioner of the division of highways shall identify those public roads, highways and bridges used during the previous twelve-month period for transportation of quantities of coal in excess of fifty thousand tons or projected to be used for transporting quantities of coal in excess of fifty thousand tons during the ensuing year. The identification process shall include the following as to each discretely identifiable section of the public highway:
(a) There is created the commercial motor vehicle weight and safety enforcement advisory committee, the purpose of which is to study and oversee the implementation and administration of the commercial motor vehicle weight and safety enforcement program set forth in this article.
(9) One Two citizen member members, to be appointed by the governor; and
(11) One member of the largest organization representing natural resource transportation drivers.