West Virginia Code of State Rules › Agency 157 - Highways › Title 157 - PROCEDURAL RULE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION DIVISION OF HIGHWAYS › Series 157-03 - Construction And Reconstruction Of State Roads › Section 157-3-2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 28, July 12, 2024
2.1. Abbreviations.
				Whenever the following abbreviations are used in the specifications, plans or
				contract documents, they are defined as follows:
AAN - American Association of Nurserymen
AAR - Association of American Railroads
AASHTO - American Association of State Highway and
				  Transportation Officials
AIA - American Institute of Architects
AISC - American Institute of Steel Construction,
				  Incorporated
AISI - American Iron and Steel Institute
AMA - Automotive Manufacturer's Association
AMS - Aerospace Material Specification
ANSI - American National Standards Institute
ARA - American Railway Association
AREA - American Railway Engineering Association
AREMA - American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way
				  Association
ASCE - American Society of Civil Engineers
ASD - Aluminum Standards and Data-Aluminum Association
ASLA - American Society of Landscape Architects
ASTM - American Society for Testing and Materials
ATSSA - American Traffic Safety Services Association
AWWA - American Water Works Association
AWS - American Welding Society
FHWA - Federal Highway Administration
FSS - Federal Specifications and Standards, General Services
				  Administration
IEEE - Institute of Electronic and Electrical
				  Engineers
IPCEA - Insulated Power Cable Engineers Association
ISA - Instrument Society of America
MIL - Military Specification
MP - Materials Procedure (See 2.51 for Definition)
NBFU - National Board of Fire Underwriters
NEC - National Electric Code
NEMA - National Electrical Manufacturer's Association
NFPA - National Fire Protection Association
PEI-ALS - Porcelain Enamel Institute: Aluminum
				  Standards
UL - Underwriters Laboratories
SAE - Society of Automotive Engineers
SSPC - Steel Structures Painting Council
TTE-TTP - Federal Specifications and Standards
2.2. Access Connection means any
				roadway facility by means of which vehicles enter or leave arterial
				highways.
2.3. Advertisements means
				the public announcement, as required by law, inviting bids for work to be
				performed, or material to be furnished.
2.4. Arterial highway means a general term
				denoting a highway primarily for through traffic.
2.5. Auxiliary lane means the portion of the
				roadway adjoining the traveled way for parking, speed-change or other purposes
				supplementary to through traffic movement.
2.6. Award means the acceptance by the
				division of a bid.
2.7. Base course
				means the layer or layers of specified material of designated thickness placed
				on a sub-base or a sub-grade to support a surface course or courses.
2.8. Bidder means an individual, firm,
				corporation, or combination thereof, acting directly or through a duly
				authorized representative, and prequalified according to the requirements and
				provisions of the division, submitting a bid for the proposed work.
2.9. Bridge means a structure, including
				supports, erected over a depression or an obstruction, such as water, a highway
				or railway and having a track or passageway for carrying traffic or other
				moving loads and having a length measured along the center of roadway more than
				20 ft. between undercopings of abutments or extreme ends of openings for
				multiple boxes.
2.9.a. The length of a bridge
				structure is the overall length measured along the line of survey stationing
				back to back of abutments if present, otherwise, end to end of the bridge
				floor, but in no case less than the total clear opening of the structure.
				Roadway width is the clear width measured at right angles to the longitudinal
				centerline of the bridge between the bottom of curbs.