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H. B. 2301


(By Delegates Prunty, Caputo and Manchin)

[Introduced February 19, 2001; referred to the

Committee on Roads and Transportation then the Judiciary.]





A BILL to amend article seventeen, chapter seventeen-c of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section six-b, relating to requiring motor vehicles carrying logs or timber to use steel supports to contain the logs.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article seventeen, chapter seventeen-c of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section six-b, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 17. SIZE, WEIGHT AND LOAD.

§17C-17-6b. Vehicles transporting logs or timber.

It is unlawful for any person operating a vehicle or combination of vehicles transporting logs or timber upon a highway in an open motor vehicle to transport the logs or timber unless the vehicle or combination of vehicles is so constructed or loaded and equipped with steel supports to contain the load of logs or timber from dropping, shifting or otherwise escaping from the vehicle or combination of vehicles. A vehicle or combination of vehicles that uses only nylon straps or straps made of some other material, without steel supports to contain the load does not meet the requirements of this section.
The commissioner of the division of highways is hereby authorized and directed to propose a legislative rule governing the design of the steel supports and the transportation of logs and timber by vehicles upon the highways for promulgation in accordance with the provisions of chapter twenty-nine-a of this code.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to
require motor vehicles carrying logs or timber to use steel supports to contain the logs, rather than just nylon straps.

This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.
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