WEST virginia legislature

2023 regular session

Introduced

Senate Joint Resolution 10

By Senators Chapman, Maynard, Rucker, and Taylor

[Introduced February 02, 2023; referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary; and then to the Committee on Finance]

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of West Virginia , repealing Amendment 3 – the Good Roads Amendment of 1920, repealing Amendment 4 – The Good Roads Amendment of 1928, repealing Amendment 5 – Fifty Million Dollar Bond Issue for Roads Amendment, repealing Amendment 8 – Better Roads Amendment, repealing Amendment 9 – Roads Development Amendment, repealing Amendment 11 – Better Highways Amendment, repealing Amendment 16 – Safe Roads Amendment of 1996, repealing Amendment 18 – Roads to Prosperity Amendment of 2017, and amending the Amendments portion of the Constitution of the State of West Virginia by adding thereto a new amendment, designated Amendment 19, relating to returning control of roads in West Virginia from the state to counties; numbering and designating such proposed amendment; and providing a summarized statement of the purpose of such proposed amendment.

Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia, two thirds of the members elected to each house agreeing thereto:

That the question of ratification or rejection of an amendment to the Constitution of the State of West Virginia be submitted to the voters of the state at the next general election to be held in the year 2024, which proposed amendment is that article III thereof be amended by adding thereto a new amendment, designated Amendment 19, to read as follows:

Amendments.

AMD-19. Returning Roads to Counties Amendment of 2023.

The control, maintenance, and upkeep of all roads in this state shall be within the exclusive province of the counties in this state.

Resolved further, That in accordance with the provisions of article eleven, chapter three of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, such amendment is hereby numbered "Amendment 1" and designated as the "Returning Roads to Counties Amendment of 2023" and the purpose of the proposed amendment is summarized as follows:  "Returning control of roads in West Virginia from the state to counties".

NOTE: The purpose of this resolution is to return control of roads in West Virginia to the counties from the state.

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