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WV Code § 17-3-6b (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 3. State Road Fund|§17-3-6b. Matching Funds With Counties for the Construction, Reconstruction, Repair and Maintenance of Feeder and State Local Service Roads

When the state road commissioner determines that there are funds available for the purpose of participating, on a matching fund basis, with the county court of one or more counties for the construction, reconstruction, repair and maintenance of any feeder and state local service roads within said county or counties, he shall in his discretion determine the amount the county court must deposit or place in escrow for matching purposes before the state road commissioner will commit any funds to a proposed project.Nothing in this section shall be construed to alter or change in any way the allotment of funds for feeder and state local service roads as provided by section six-a of this article: Provided, however, That the feeder and state local service road fund of the county or counties participating under this section shall be charged with the amount advanced by the state road commissioner.
WV Code § 17-3-7 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 3. State Road Fund|§17-3-7. Assent to Federal Aid

The Legislature of the State of West Virginia hereby renews its assent to the provisions of the act of Congress approved July eleventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled "An act to provide that the United States shall aid the states in the construction of rural post roads and for other purposes." The state road commission is hereby authorized to enter into contracts and agreements with the United States government relating to the survey, construction and maintenance of roads under the provisions of said act of Congress, to submit such scheme or program of construction and maintenance as may be required by the secretary of agriculture, or other authorized representative of the federal government, and to do all other things necessary to carry out the cooperation contemplated and provided for by said act. For the construction and maintenance of rural post roads, the good faith of the state is hereby pledged to the government of the United States to make available funds sufficient at least to equal the sums apportioned to this state by the United States government during the period for which federal funds are appropriated by section three of said act, and to maintain the roads constructed with the aid of funds so appropriated, and to make adequate provision for carrying out such maintenance.The state of West Virginia hereby further assents to any similar provision or provisions that may be made by any subsequent act of Congress making appropriation for the survey, construction and maintenance of rural post roads.
WV Code § 17-3-8 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 3. State Road Fund|§17-3-8. Issuance of Duplicate Road Bond When Registered Original Is Lost or Destroyed

Upon the filing with the State Treasurer of proof, which in his judgment and discretion is full and satisfactory, of the loss or destruction of any registered West Virginia state road bond issued by virtue of the laws of this state, and a corporate surety bond in an amount equal to the face value of the lost bond, conditioned to indemnify the State of West Virginia and all persons against any loss in consequence of the issuance of a duplicate bond, the treasurer and Auditor of the state shall be authorized to issue and deliver to the last registered holder of any such lost or destroyed bond, a duplicate thereof.Each duplicate bond issued under the provisions of this section shall correspond with the original as to date, maturity, form and execution, except it may be given a number different from the original. It shall have printed or engraved on the face thereof the word "duplicate," and on its back a certificate executed by the treasurer in the following form: "The within duplicate bond is executed and issued under and by virtue of an act of the West Virginia Legislature passed on February 19, 1929, in lieu of road bond number ..... in the amount of $......., dated ........., 19 ..... , and maturing ........, 19 ......."Any duplicate bond issued hereunder shall be taken and treated in all respects as the original, and the original shall be deemed cancelled.The finder of any lost bond for which a duplicate has been issued shall forthwith transmit the same to the treasurer, who shall cancel it. Any person who shall retain possession of any such bond with knowledge that a duplicate has been issued therefor, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not exceeding $1,000 or confined in jail not exceeding one year.
WV Code § 17-3-9 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 3. State Road Fund|§17-3-9. Signs Along Interstate Highways

The state road commissioner shall agree in behalf of this state to permit the erection of signs within the rights-of-way of the interstate highway system, as authorized by subsection (f) of section 131, Title 23, United States code, to the full extent authorized or agreed to by the secretary of transportation.
WV Code § 17-3-10 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 3. State Road Fund|§17-3-10. Special Fund

There is hereby created a special fund, to the credit of which shall be paid all federal funds allocated and distributed to the State of West Virginia in implementation of the provisions of Title 23, United States Code, Section 135, relating to a traffic operations program to increase capacity and safety, to be administered by the state road commissioner in the carrying out of that program. There shall also be paid to the credit of this special fund funds received from municipalities, which funds represent the municipalities' share of the cost of participating in the traffic operations program.
WV Code § 17-3A-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 3A. Industrial Access Road Fund|§17-3A-1. Industrial Access Road Fund Created; Construction Guarantees by Municipalities and Counties

(a) Any other provision of this code notwithstanding, there is hereby continued in the State Treasury the Industrial Access Road Fund, referred to in this article as "the fund". There shall be deposited into the fund three fourths of one percent of all state tax collections which are otherwise specifically dedicated by the provisions of this code to the State Road Fund or the percentage of those tax collections that will produce $3 million for each fiscal year. At the end of each fiscal year, all unobligated moneys in the fund revert to the State Road Fund.(b) The moneys in the fund shall be expended by the Division of Highways for constructing and maintaining industrial access roads within counties and municipalities to industrial sites on which manufacturing, distribution, processing or other economic development activities, including publicly owned airports, are already constructed or are under firm contract to be constructed. In the event there is no industrial site already constructed or for which the construction is under firm contract, a county or municipality may guarantee to the Division of Highways an acceptable surety or a device in an amount equal to the estimated cost of the access road or that portion provided by the Division of Highways, that an industrial site will be constructed and if no industrial site acceptable to the Division of Highways is constructed within the time limits of the surety or device, the surety or device shall be forfeited.
WV Code § 17-3A-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 3A. Industrial Access Road Fund|§17-3A-2. Division of Highways to Determine Construction of Industrial Access Roads

In determining whether or not to construct or improve any industrial access road and in determining the nature of the road to be constructed, the Division of Highways shall base its decision on the costs of the industrial access road in relation to the volume and nature of the traffic to be generated as a result of developing the industrial site within the total industrial area. In making a decision on any industrial site, the total volume of traffic to be generated shall be considered in regard to the overall cost of the project. The Division of Highways shall consult and work in cooperation with the West Virginia Development Office in determining the use of industrial access road funds.Prior to a formal request for the use of moneys from the fund to provide access to new or expanding industrial sites, the location of the industrial access road shall be submitted for approval of the Division of Highways. The Division of Highways shall consider the cost of the industrial access road as it relates to the project's location and as it relates to the possibility of future extensions of the road to serve other possible industrial sites as well as the future development of the surrounding area.Prior to the allocation of moneys from the fund for the construction or maintenance of an industrial access road to an industry proposing to locate or expand in a county or municipality, the governing body of the county or municipality shall, by resolution, request moneys from the fund and shall be responsible for the preliminary negotiations with the industries and other interested parties. The Division of Highways shall be available for consultation with the governing bodies of the counties or municipalities and other interested parties and may prepare surveys, plans, engineering studies and cost estimates for the proposed industrial access road.
WV Code § 17-3A-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 3A. Industrial Access Road Fund|§17-3A-3. Industrial Access Roads to Be Part of State Road System

Any industrial access road constructed under this article is a state local service road in the state road system and shall thereafter be maintained in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
WV Code § 17-3A-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 3A. Industrial Access Road Fund|§17-3A-4. Restrictions on Use of Fund

(a) The fund may not be used for the adjustment of utilities or for the construction of industrial access roads to schools, hospitals, libraries, armories, shopping centers, apartment buildings, government installations or similar facilities, whether public or private. The fund may not be used to construct industrial access roads on private property.(b) Moneys from the fund may not be expended until the governing body of the county or municipality certifies to the Division of Highways that the industrial site is constructed and operating or is under firm contract to be constructed or operated, or upon the presentation of an acceptable surety or device in an amount equal to the estimated cost of the access road or that portion provided by the Division of Highways in accordance with section one of this article.(c) Not more than $400,000 of unmatched moneys from the fund may be allocated for use in any one county in any fiscal year. The maximum amount of unmatched moneys which may be allocated from the fund is ten percent of the fair market value of the designated industrial establishment. The amount of unmatched funds allocated may be supplemented with additional matched moneys from the fund, in which case the matched moneys allocated from the fund may not exceed 150,000, to be matched equally from sources other than the fund. The amount of matched moneys which may be allocated from the fund over and above the unmatched funds may not exceed five percent of the fair market value of the designated industrial site.(d) Funds may only be allocated to those items of construction and engineering which are essential to providing an adequate facility to serve the anticipated traffic. Funds may not be allocated for items such as storm sewers, curbs, gutters and extra pavement width unless necessary to extend or connect an existing access road.
WV Code § 17-3A-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 3A. Industrial Access Road Fund|§17-3A-5. Disbursements From Fund

Any claim of a contractor or others, not otherwise provided for, for labor done or for materials, services or supplies furnished to the Division of Highways pursuant to the provisions of this article shall be audited by the commissioner of the Division of Highways. If the commissioner determines that the claim is valid and correct, the commissioner shall issue a requisition of the division upon the State Auditor therefor showing the nature of the claim and specifying whether the claim is for labor done or materials, services or supplies furnished for the construction or maintenance of state roads, or for other purposes, and the Auditor shall issue his or her warrant upon the State Treasurer therefor. The treasurer shall issue the warrant to the person, firm or corporation entitled thereto out of the funds in the treasury provided for that purpose. The cost of acquiring a right-of-way shall be paid out of the fund.
WV Code § 17-3A-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 3A. Industrial Access Road Fund|§17-3A-6. Annual Audit to Be Made of Receipts and Expenditures of Fund

The Legislature, acting through the Joint Committee on Government and Finance, shall cause an annual audit to be made by a resident independent certified public accountant of all books, accounts and records relating to all receipts and expenditures of the fund. The commissioner shall make available to the independent Auditor or Auditors performing the audit all of the division's books, accounts and records pertaining to all moneys received and expended. The Auditor or Auditors performing the audit shall make available annually the audit report with copies thereof to the members of the Legislature, the Governor, the commissioner of the Division of Highways, the Secretary of State, the State Treasurer, the Attorney General and the State Auditor. The audit report shall be available to the public in the office of the Secretary of State.The Legislature, acting through the Joint Committee on Government and Finance, shall obtain the services of a resident independent certified public accountant for this purpose, the cost of which shall be payable out of funds appropriated by the Legislature. Any audits of the funds which have been made by any official auditing agency of the United States government shall be accepted in lieu of the state audit.
WV Code § 17-4-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 4. State Road System|§17-4-1. Classification of State Roads; Control Over State Roads; Control by County Courts of Roads, Bridges and Landings; Roads in State Parks, Forests and Public Hunting and Fishing Areas Made Part of State Road System

The state road system shall consist of roads functionally classified into five categories as follows: (1) Expressway; (2) trunkline; (3) feeder; (4) state local service; and (5) park and forest. The authority and control over the state roads shall be vested in the commissioner of highways.The county courts shall retain the superintendence and administration of roads, bridges and landings that remain under their jurisdiction as provided in section one, article ten of this chapter.The commissioner of highways shall take control of all existing roads which are publicly owned within the state parks system and in the state forests including public hunting and fishing areas, formerly the responsibility of the director of the department of natural resources, on the effective date of this section and shall assume control of their further construction, reconstruction and maintenance as a part of the state road system. The commissioner is responsible for construction, reconstruction and maintenance as a part of the state road system of any new roads for public usage that may be constructed with the approval of the director of the department of natural resources, in existing state parks, state forests, public hunting and fishing areas or any such roads for public usage which may be established on publicly owned lands in any future state park, state forest, public hunting or fishing areas.The director of the department of natural resources has the authority and responsibility to do the necessary cutting and planting of vegetation along road rights-of-way in state parks, state forests and public hunting and fishing areas.
WV Code § 17-4-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 4. State Road System|§17-4-2. Definitions of Roads Comprising State Road System

The following meanings shall be ascribed to roads comprising the state road system: (a) "Expressway." -- Serves major intrastate and interstate travel, including federal interstate routes. (b) "Trunkline." -- Serves major city to city travel. (c) "Feeder." -- Serves community to community travel or collects and feeds traffic to the higher systems or both. (d) "State local service." -- Localized arterial and spur roads which provide land access and socioeconomic benefits to abutting properties. (e) "Park and forest." -- Serves travel within state parks, state forests and public hunting and fishing areas.
WV Code § 17-4-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 4. State Road System|§17-4-3. Classification of Roads in State Road System; Reclassification

All roads in the state road system shall be classified by the state road commissioner. Classification shall be according to functional level of service, either as expressway, trunkline, feeder, or state local service. The designation of a road as expressway, trunkline, feeder, or state local service, shall be subject to change, however, whenever in the judgment of the commissioner altered conditions require that a road be reclassified from one category to another.
WV Code § 17-4-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 4. State Road System|§17-4-4. Interstate and International Highway Planning

The commissioner shall consider and plan the state's part in any contemplated interstate or international system of roads and highways, and may attend meetings and conferences within and without the state for discussion and planning of programs relating thereto.
WV Code § 17-4-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 4. State Road System|§17-4-5. Right of Eminent Domain

The state road commissioner, or the state road commission may acquire by right of eminent domain any land or water, or any interest therein or any rights, ways, or easements thereon or thereover, for the purpose of constructing, widening, straightening, grading, or altering any state road, or for the purposes enumerated in section twenty-five of this article, or to provide a detour or temporary road or bridge while a road is in the process of construction, reconstruction, improvement, or repair, or for any other purposes authorized by any provision of this chapter, whenever a just compensation cannot be agreed upon by the owner or claimant of such property, for such taking, use, or damage.The state road commissioner, or the state road commission, for any of the purposes aforesaid may likewise acquire by eminent domain any bridge or bridge site across any stream separating this state from an adjoining state, any portion thereof, or the approaches thereto, or any interest, franchise, right, or privilege in the same, whether the same be owned and operated by a bridge company, a railroad or electric company, or other railway, or other utility, or any other person, firm, or corporation, such right to be exercised to provide either for a permanent title, ownership, use, or easement thereon or thereover, or for a temporary use and easement thereon or thereover as a detour, or temporary road or bridge; and such rights may be acquired subject to the use by any railroad or electric company, or other railway or utility, or under such reasonable regulation as to such use as the court may prescribe. The state road commission may also exercise in any adjoining state such powers of eminent domain for any of the purposes aforesaid, whether such powers are now conferred or may be hereafter conferred upon the commission by any act of Congress of the United States, if such act of Congress be necessary for the exercise of such powers. Title to property condemned in any adjoining state may be taken either in the name of the state or of the state road commission.The proceedings for the purposes aforesaid may be instituted in the name of the commissioner, or the state road commission, either at law or in equity, and prosecuted and determined as provided in chapter fifty-four.
WV Code § 17-4-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 4. State Road System|§17-4-6. Cost of Acquiring Rights-of-Way

The cost of acquiring all rights-of-way for road purposes shall be paid out of the state road fund.
WV Code § 17-4-7 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 4. State Road System|§17-4-7. Information to Be Filed With Clerk of County Court

The state road commissioner shall promptly file with the clerk of the county court of each county, all changes in titles to rights-of-way, maps, plats, surveys and all discontinuances of state roads within the county.
WV Code § 17-4-8 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 4. State Road System|§17-4-8. Use of Roadbed by Railroad, Telephone Company, etc.

No railroad or electric or other railway shall be constructed upon the roadbed of any state road, except to cross the same, nor shall any person, firm or corporation enter upon or construct any works in or upon such road, or lay or maintain thereon or thereunder any drainage, sewer or water pipes, gas pipes, electric conduits or other pipes, nor shall any telephone, telegraph or electric line or power pole, or any other structure whatsoever, be erected upon, in or over any portion of a state road, except under such restrictions, conditions and regulations as may be prescribed by the state road commissioner. Whenever any railroad or electric or other railway, heretofore or hereafter constructed, shall cross any state road, it shall be required to keep its own roadbed, and the bed of the road or highway at such crossing, in proper repair, or else to construct and maintain an overhead or undergrade crossing, subject to the approval of the state road commissioner; and the tracks of such railroad or railway at grade crossings shall be so constructed as to give a safe and easy approach to and across the same, and when the construction of such approaches is made necessary by a change in the railroad grade at the grade crossing, the cost shall be upon the railway company.
WV Code § 17-4-9 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 4. State Road System|§17-4-9. Separation, Elimination or Avoidance of Railway-Highway Grade Crossings -- When Commissioner May Require

Whenever in his judgment it is necessary for the safety of the traveling public or to comply with the safety, design or construction standards for a federal-aid highway project, the state road commissioner may require any railroad company, owning, controlling or operating a railroad in this state, to eliminate railway-highway crossings at grade on existing highways and to avoid railway-highway crossings at grade on new highways, relocated highways and extensions of existing highways by separating the grades or by relocating an existing highway. The commissioner may determine the location, design and grade for any project or structure for the elimination or avoidance of railway-highway crossings at grade, and may determine whether a new, relocated or extended highway shall pass over or under the railroad right of way or tracks. The railroad company shall not be required to bear any part of the cost of construction or maintenance of such grade separation, except where the separation structure eliminates an existing grade crossing.