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WV Code § 17-4-55 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 4. State Road System|§17-4-55. Rest Area, Welcome Center, Road, and Vehicle Commercial Sponsorship Program

(a) The Division of Highways shall undertake a study of the feasibility of implementing a program to facilitate commercial sponsorship of rest areas, welcome centers, roads, and vehicles owned or leased by the Division of Highways to help offset the costs of the operation and maintenance of rest areas, welcome centers, roads, and vehicles. (b) The Division of Highways shall implement a program to facilitate commercial sponsorship of rest areas, welcome centers, roads, and vehicles owned or leased by the Division of Highways (1) if it is feasible and practicable, in accordance with the study required by subsection (a) of this section, and (2) upon approval of the proposed sponsorship program by the Federal Highway Administration. (c) Upon implementation of the program, the Division of Highways may enter into sponsorship agreements with private entities in accordance with this section. A sponsorship agreement may allow a private entity to place signs and placards identifying itself as a sponsor of the rest area, welcome center, road or vehicle that is visible to the traveling public in exchange for consideration at fair market value. A sponsorship agreement may include any other provisions the Division of Highways deems necessary. Sponsorship agreements shall comply with all applicable state and federal rules and regulations. (d) All net revenue received by the Division of Highways from the sponsorship agreements shall be deposited in the State Road Fund. (e) The Commissioner of the Division of Highways may propose rules for legislative approval or emergency rules pursuant to §29A-3-1 et seq. of this code to establish and implement the program as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this section. (f) On or before December 1, 2018, the Commissioner of the Division of Highways shall submit a report to the Joint Committee on Government and Finance detailing the status and progress of the feasibility study directed in subsection (a) of this section. If the sponsorship program is implemented, the commissioner shall also report to the Joint Committee on Government and Finance on the status of the sponsorship program.
WV Code § 17-4A-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 4A. Complete Streets Act|§17-4A-1. Complete Streets

(a) Vehicular, public transportation, bicycle and pedestrian modes are integral to the transportation system of this state. The Division of Highways may view all transportation improvements as opportunities to improve safety, access and mobility for all travelers.(b) All transportation projects receiving federal or state funds should strive to improve safety, access and mobility for users of all ages and abilities, defined to include pedestrians, bicyclists, public transportation vehicles and their passengers, motorists, movers of commercial goods, persons with disabilities, older adults and children.(c) Accommodation of all users should be considered in the planning, design, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, maintenance and operations of any state, county or local transportation facilities receiving funds from the Division of Highways. The Division of Highways is encouraged to create a safe, comprehensive, integrated and connected network to accommodate all users in a manner that is suitable to the rural, suburban or urban context.(d) The Division of Highways is encouraged to use the latest and best design standards as they apply to bicycle, pedestrian, transit and highway facilities, which may include, but are not limited to, the latest editions of:(1) A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets, from the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials;(2) Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares: A Context Sensitive Approach: An ITE Recommended Practice, from the Institute of Transportation Engineers;(3) Guide for the Development of Bicycle Facilities, from the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials;(4) Guide for the Planning, Design and Operation of Pedestrian Facilities, from the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials;(5) Public Rights-of-Way Accessibility Guidelines, from the U. S. Access Board; and(6) Other relevant federal, state or local guidance as appropriate.(e) The Division of Highways may provide assistance to and coordinate with regional and local agencies in developing and implementing complementary complete streets policies. In the development of projects within municipal boundaries, the Division of Highways and municipality may share expertise in multimodal transportation planning.(f) The Division of Highways is encouraged to modify its procedures, documents, training systems and performance measures in a timely manner to ensure the needs of all users of the transportation system are included in all phases of the projects. The Division of Highways is encouraged to create an implementation plan, including a schedule and a regional and local government and public outreach plan, in consultation with the advisory board as outlined in section three of this article.
WV Code § 17-4A-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 4A. Complete Streets Act|§17-4A-2. Exceptions

(a) Accommodation of all users of a transportation facility need not be considered in the planning, designing, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, maintenance or operations of any state, county or local transportation facilities receiving funds from the Division of Highways if the commissioner determines that:(1) Use of a transportation facility by pedestrians, bicyclists or other users is prohibited by law;(2) The cost of new accommodation would be disproportionate to the need or probable use;(3) There is a demonstrated absence of future need as determined by factors such as current and future land use, current and projected user volumes, population density and crash data;(4) The time-sensitive or expedited nature of the project would be adversely affected; or(5) The project has already moved beyond the initial planning stage at the time this article goes into effect.(b) The commissioner is encouraged to consult local and regional plans and leaders, as appropriate, in assessing exceptions.(c) Documentation of any granted exceptions may be made publicly available and shared with the advisory board as established in section three of this article.
WV Code § 17-5-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 5. State Convict Road Force|§17-5-1. State Convict Road Force; How Used

All male persons convicted of felony and, sentenced to imprisonment or confinement in the penitentiary by any court, or who may hereafter be sentenced for a felony, whether actually sentenced to labor or not, or so many thereof as may be required by the state road commissioner, shall, as incident to such sentence or confinement, constitute the state convict road force and as such may be employed under the supervision of the state road commissioner in building, surfacing and maintaining roads under the supervision of the state road commissioner, including all roads in the state road system, and in and about any quarries, gravel pits, sandbanks, crushers, brick kilns, or other plants and places operated by the state road commission for the manufacture and acquisition of materials for use in the construction, maintenance and repair of such roads.
WV Code § 17-5-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 5. State Convict Road Force|§17-5-2. How Convict Workers Selected; Monthly Report of Suitable Inmates

The warden of the penitentiary shall prepare for the road commissioner a monthly report which shall show the names of not less than five hundred inmates who are suitable for road work. From the said prepared list of inmates the road commissioner shall select the number needed for road work.The warden shall deliver and the road commissioner shall receive at the penitentiary, convicts selected by the warden to work on the road.
WV Code § 17-5-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 5. State Convict Road Force|§17-5-3. Superior Guard and Assistants; Hours of Work of Guards and Prisoners; Pay of Prisoners

The state convict road force shall be guarded when working on the roads and in making road materials, and when being transported to and from the penitentiary, by guards detailed by the warden, who shall designate one guard as the superior, and the other or others as assistants. The state guard and assistants shall obey the rules prescribed for prison camps. Any guard or assistant not obeying such rules shall, on the recommendation of the superintendent or engineer in charge of the work, be immediately recalled, and some other person detailed in his stead. The wages of each guard, superior and assistant, shall be fixed by the road commissioner. All guards and prisoners shall be under the direction of the warden, or his authority, and shall work not to exceed sixty hours per week, and each prisoner shall be paid for each work day, not to exceed ten hours, the sum of 10¢ and for time in excess thereof 10¢ per hour for such excess time worked.
WV Code § 17-5-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 5. State Convict Road Force|§17-5-4. Housing, Feeding and Transportation of Prisoners

The state board of health Should this be Secretary of the Department of Health and, warden and the state road commissioner shall promptly formulate rules and regulations governing the camps essential to the housing of the prisoners, and the state road commissioner shall provide suitable quarters, not inconsistent with such rules and regulations, for such convict road force, to be constructed, when practicable, with prison labor. He shall supply such force with all necessary food, cooking utensils, beds and bedding, and provide means of transportation for such road force and camp equipment, when necessary, from place to place, or to and from work of such convicts.
WV Code § 17-5-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 5. State Convict Road Force|§17-5-5. Escape of Convict From State Road Force

Any penitentiary convict who shall escape from the state road force, or in going to or returning therefrom, shall be guilty of a felony and, on conviction in the county where the escape was made, shall be sentenced by the court for a term of not less than one nor more than two years in addition to the unserved time of his original sentence; and he shall be returned to the West Virginia penitentiary; and it is made the duty of all arresting officers in the state to apprehend such escaped prisoner and return him to the West Virginia penitentiary where he will be available for court arraignment in the county where the escape was made; and the costs shall be paid by the state road commissioner, and the road commissioner may offer and pay suitable rewards for his apprehension, and any guard may pursue and arrest him in any county.
WV Code § 17-5-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 5. State Convict Road Force|§17-5-6. Return of Convicts to Penitentiary Because of Infirmity, Bad Conduct, etc.; Trusties

The state road commissioner or warden shall in all cases where convicts or prisoners are under his control and supervision have authority to return any convict or prisoner to the penitentiary who because of mental or physical infirmity is unable to work, or whose presence in the camp, due to insubordination, bad conduct or disposition may impair the discipline of the road force.Under the supervision of the warden, or rules promulgated for the government and discipline of the state convict road force approved by him such force, or so many thereof as appear eligible and trustworthy, shall be made trusties; but reasonable corrective measures may be taken against trusties who violate their privileges as such.
WV Code § 17-5-7 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 5. State Convict Road Force|§17-5-7. Medical Inspection of Convict Camps

It shall be the duty of the state road commissioner to designate some competent physician or physicians to make inspection of all camps where a convict road force is employed. It shall be the duty of such physician to make thorough investigations of the sanitary conditions of such camps each sixty days and report every inspection to the Governor, together with such recommendations as he may deem necessary; and he shall furnish copies thereof to the warden of the penitentiary, the state road commissioner, the West Virginia board of health, and the local board of health of the county in which such camp is located. A reasonable compensation to the physician rendering such services shall be paid by the commissioner.
WV Code § 17-5-8 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 5. State Convict Road Force|§17-5-8. Convicts in Same Classification to Be Placed in Same Camp

It shall be the duty of the state road commissioner, with the assistance of the warden, to organize the penitentiary convicts in the state road force, as far as practicable, into groups or classes according to the similarity of their respective dispositions, temperaments, criminal inclinations, regard for orderly observance of the rules and general habits respecting stability or safety, and, as far as practicable, to place those so classified in separate camps, and particularly to employ or use in one camp, or class of camps, those youths and first offenders whose correction, improvement and reclamation may reasonably be anticipated and whose habits are not dangerous to their fellow convicts, and for the purpose of effecting such classifications prisoners may be removed from one camp to another. All classes of prisoners on the state convict road force shall be employed and used under such safeguards and in accordance with such rules and regulations as may be provided by the road commissioner, the warden and the Governor.
WV Code § 17-5-9 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 5. State Convict Road Force|§17-5-9. Commissioner to Pay Expenses of Convicts and Cost of Equipment and Materials

The expenses incident to the transportation of convicts and prisoners, their food, clothing, medical attention and maintenance while in the state convict road force shall be paid by the state road commissioner, and all equipment, materials, tools, teams and machinery necessary in the prosecution of the work shall be provided out of any funds at his disposal available for the building, surfacing, paving and completing of the roads upon which such convicts and prisoners labor. And when a convict is discharged at camp the commissioner shall pay him any sum due him and may pay in whole or in part his expenses home.In any case of a prisoner taken from the penitentiary to a road convict camp the state road commissioner shall pay for the per diem cost of feeding, clothing and caring for such prisoners.
WV Code § 17-5-10 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 5. State Convict Road Force|§17-5-10. Discharge of Convicts at Expiration of Term; Application of Section Relating to Deduction From Sentence for Good Conduct

The warden of the penitentiary shall have power to discharge any prisoner working on the state road force wherever he may be in the state when the term of such prisoner has expired, and section twenty-seven, article five, chapter twenty-eight shall apply to all convicts from the penitentiary on said state road force.
WV Code § 17-5-11 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 5. State Convict Road Force|§17-5-11. Commissioner May Act Through Agents and May Set Up Department of Prison Labor

Where anything herein is required or permitted to be done by the state road commissioner, the same may be done in person or by superintendents, agents, or employees of the state road commissioner, upon his authority duly given, and he may set up a department of prison labor having charge of the agencies and persons under his authority as herein provided for, and account for the operations of the state convict road force therein; but in any event such accounts and operations shall be separately stated.
WV Code § 17-5-12 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 5. State Convict Road Force|§17-5-12. Work Which May Be Performed by Convicts Other Than on State Road Force

Convicts of either sex not employed in the state convict road force as provided by article five, chapter seventeen, may be employed by the warden under the directions of the state commissioner of public institutions in work for the state penitentiary or any farm now or hereafter under control of the state and in work for any public, nonprofit enterprise or program sponsored by the state or any of its governmental subdivisions, but such convicts actually confined within the penitentiary and not available for outside work shall as far as possible, be used in the making of articles required by the state departments and institutions. The warden may charge the various state departments and institutions for such convict-made supplies the actual costs of the materials used in the manufacture of the articles furnished them and, in addition thereto, an amount sufficient to defray the maintenance cost of the prisoners employed in such manufacture and to keep in repair with suitable replacements the machinery, tools and appliances used in the manufacture of such articles, to the extent of the fair market price thereof, the amount of which shall be stated by the state commissioner of public institutions. Any articles and supplies so manufactured and not required by the state departments and institutions may be sold by the warden to municipalities and counties and the agencies thereof, or to federal agencies, upon the same terms and conditions, but in no event shall such articles be sold to private persons, firms or corporations, or be sold or consumed otherwise than by public departments and institutions of government.This article shall not impair any contracts now existing between the state commissioner of public institutions and any person, firm or corporation for the use of convict labor for manufacturing within the walls of the penitentiary, nor prevent the hiring of convicts either within or without the walls as otherwise provided by this article.
WV Code § 17-5A-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 5A. Department of Motor Vehicles|§17-5A-1. To 17-5a-17

Repealed.Acts, 1951 Reg. Sess., Ch. 129.
WV Code § 17-6-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 6. Licenses|§17-6-3. Certificate of Convenience for Public Transportation Vehicles -- When Required; Vehicles Engaged in Interstate Commerce

No motor vehicle shall be operated over any public road, highway, street or alley in this state, for public transportation of passengers or property, or both, for compensation until the owner or operator of such vehicle shall first have made application to and secured from the state road commissioner a permit or certificate of convenience to operate such vehicle. Such classification shall include public livery vehicles, cars for hire or for rent, taxicabs, bus lines, truck lines, and any other public transportation of passengers or property for compensation, without regard to whether such operation is between fixed termini or over regular routes or otherwise.The state road commissioner may also grant certificates of convenience and necessity and permits for the transportation of persons or property, or both, for compensation in interstate commerce and regulate such interstate commerce under the authority of and in accordance with the provisions of any statute that has been or hereafter may be enacted by the Congress of the United States, vesting in or delegating to the state road commissioner of West Virginia the authority, as an agency of the United States government, so to grant such certificates and permits, and so to regulate such commerce. If the Legislature shall by statute transfer from the state road commissioner to any other commission, board or officer, the authority to grant certificates of convenience and permits and to regulate intrastate transportation of persons or property, or both, for compensation, then the authority herein granted shall vest in such other commission, board or officer. The state road commissioner, or such other commission, board or officer, as the case may be, is hereby authorized to notify the proper department of the federal government of his or its assent to conform to the requirements, conditions and obligations of said statute of the Congress in regard to interstate commerce by motor vehicles.
WV Code § 17-7-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 7. Certificates of Title|§17-7-1. To 17-7-11

Repealed.Acts, 1951 Reg. Sess., Ch. 129.
WV Code § 17-8-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 8. Traffic Regulations and Laws of the Road|§17-8-1. To 17-8-35

Repealed.Acts, 1951 Reg. Sess., Ch. 129.
WV Code § 17-9-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 9. General Provisions Applicable to State Roads, County-District Roads, Streets and Alleys, State Road Commission, County Courts and Municipal Authorities|§17-9-1. To 17-9-34

Repealed.Acts, 1933 Ex. Sess., Ch. 40.
WV Code § 17-10-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 10. County Courts; Municipalities; General Authority and Duties as to Roads, etc.|§17-10-1. Power Over Bridges, Approaches and Public Landings; Relinquishment of Authority Over County-District Roads; Commissioner May Purchase or Rent Road Equipment and Material From County Court

The county court shall have the superintendence and administration of the construction, reconstruction, repair and maintenance of bridges and approaches to bridges situated within municipalities and at the time of the adoption of this chapter remaining under the control and jurisdiction of the county court. The county court shall also have like authority over public landings. The term "roads and bridges" in this article shall be construed to mean the bridges and approaches to bridges which under this section remain within the jurisdiction of the county court, unless the context clearly requires a different meaning.Pursuant to section two, article four, this chapter, the county court shall upon July 1, nineteen hundred thirty-three, relinquish to the state road commission its authority over county-district roads, and shall thereafter neither construct, reconstruct nor maintain any road or bridge except as is specifically authorized by this article.The state road commissioner may purchase or rent from any county court any or all road equipment and materials in their possession and shall give preference in the purchase of such machinery from the county courts that may be needed by the commission and not needed for the maintenance and repair of the roads, bridges and landings remaining under their control.
WV Code § 17-10-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 10. County Courts; Municipalities; General Authority and Duties as to Roads, etc.|§17-10-2. Extent of Power Over Roads, Bridges and Public Landings

So far as applicable, the county court shall have with respect to the roads, bridges and public landings that remain within their jurisdiction similar powers to those granted to the state road commissioner by section four, article four of this chapter.
WV Code § 17-10-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 17. Roads and Highways|Article 10. County Courts; Municipalities; General Authority and Duties as to Roads, etc.|§17-10-3. Exercise of Power of Eminent Domain

In the exercise of the power of eminent domain with regard to the roads and bridges under their jurisdiction the county court shall be governed in the same manner and to the same extent as is the state road commissioner by section five, article four of this chapter.