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Senate Bill No. 542

(By Senators Caruth, Chafin, Fanning and Guills)

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[Introduced March 11, 2009; referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure; and then to the Committee on Finance.]

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A BILL to amend and reenact §17-16A-18 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to terminating tolls on the West Virginia Turnpike no later than 2020.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §17-16A-18 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 16A. WEST VIRGINIA PARKWAYS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND TOURISM AUTHORITY.

§17-16A-18. Cessation of tolls.

(a) Except as provided herein, when all bonds issued under the provisions of this article in connection with any parkway project or projects and the interest thereon shall have been paid or a sufficient amount for the payment of all such bonds and the interest thereon to the maturity thereof shall have been set aside in trust for the benefit of the bondholders, no later than the year 2020, such project or projects, if then in good condition and repair to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of the State Division of Highways, shall be transferred to the State Division of Highways and shall thereafter be maintained by the State Division of Highways free of tolls.
(b) No later than the first day of February, one thousand nine hundred ninety February 1, 2020, the parkways authority or its successors shall discontinue, remove and not relocate all toll collection facilities on the West Virginia Turnpike as the same existed on June 1, 1989, except for the three main toll barriers and collection facilities and, provided solely that the provisions of section eighteen-a are complied with, as they apply to the toll collection facilities at the intersection of U.S. Route 19 (Corridor "L") and said turnpike unless bonds issued in connection with that project and the interest thereon have been paid, in which case, tolls shall discontinue and those toll facilities shall be removed.



NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to discontinue tolls on the West Virginia Turnpike by 2020.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
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