Senate Bill No. 598
(By Senator Hunter)
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[Introduced February 20, 2004; referred to the Committee on the
Judiciary.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact §24-6-12 of the code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, relating to removing municipalities that
operate either an emergency telephone system or an enhanced
emergency telephone from the requirement of establishing,
every three years, a policy that provides the most prompt,
fair, equitable and effective response to requests or
dispatches for emergency towing services.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §24-6-12 of the code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 6. LOCAL EMERGENCY TELEPHONE SYSTEM.
§24-6-12. Dispatching of towing services for emergency towing of
vehicles; exceptions.
(a) Every three years, the county commission of each county
or
the municipality operating an emergency telephone system or an enhanced emergency telephone system shall, in consultation with all
public safety units, public agencies and all available towing
services registered as common carriers pursuant to the provisions
of chapter twenty-four-a of this code, establish a policy that
provides for the most prompt, fair, equitable and effective
response to requests or dispatches for emergency towing services.
(b) For each incident where towing services are required, the
public agency procuring towing services shall maintain a public
record of the name of the towing service utilized.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to remove municipalities
that operate either an emergency telephone system or an enhanced
emergency telephone from the requirement of establishing, every
three years, a policy that provides the most prompt, fair,
equitable and effective response to requests or dispatches for
emergency towing services.
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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