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Senate Bill No. 663

(By Senators Bowman and Yost)

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[Introduced March 23, 2009; referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure; and then to the Committee on Finance.]

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A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §17-17-14, relating to authorizing the Commissioner of Highways to operate the Market Street Bridge in Brooke County that spans the Ohio River as a toll bridge.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §17-17-14, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 17. TOLL BRIDGES.
§17-17-14. Market Street Bridge toll fees authorized; expenditures; annual report.

The Commissioner of Highways of West Virginia is hereby authorized to construct and operate a toll collection facility located at the interchange of West Virginia State Route 2 and the Market Street Bridge in Brooke County that spans the Ohio River and connects State Route 2 to Steubenville, Ohio, subject to the following:
(1) The toll fee charged and collected by the Commissioner of Highways at its toll facility located at or near the interchange of West Virginia State Route 2 and the Market Street Bridge shall be $0.50 per vehicle. The toll will begin as of September 1, 2009;
(2) The tolls collected by the Commissioner of Highways will be used to pay for the costs of the design and construction of the toll facility located at the interchange of West Virginia State Route 2 and the Market Street Bridge. After those costs have been paid, the tolls collected shall be used in the following manner: (1) Fifty percent of the tolls collected shall be used for the maintenance and upkeep of the Market Street Bridge and the toll facility; and (2) fifty percent of the tolls collected shall be distributed to the Business Development Corporation of Brooke and Hancock counties.
(3) In addition to any other annual report required by this article, the Commissioner of Highways will prepare and deliver to the Governor, the Speaker of the House of Delegates and the President of the Senate a separate annual report of toll revenues collected from the Market Street Bridge toll facility. The report shall include, but not be limited to, disclosing separately the expenditure of said toll revenues generated from the Market Street Bridge toll facility, including a description of the purposes for
which such toll revenues are expended.



NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Commissioner of Highways to construct and operate a toll facility at or near the intersection of West Virginia Sate Route 2 and the Market Street Bridge. The bill also sets a toll of $0.50 for each vehicle crossing the bridge and provides that, after the costs of toll facility have been paid, fifty percent of toll revenues will be provided for the maintenance of the bridge and fifty percent to the Business Development Corporation of Brooke and Hancock counties.

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