Senate Bill No. 488

(By Senators Love and Schoonover)

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[Introduced February 20, 1995; referred to the Committee
on Government Organization; and then to the Committee on Finance.]
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A BILL to amend article sixteen-a, chapter seventeen of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section thirteen-a, relating to requiring the even distribution of concessions derived from facilities of the parkways authority.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article sixteen-a, chapter seventeen of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section thirteen-a, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 16A. WEST VIRGINIA PARKWAYS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND TOURISM AUTHORITY.

17-16A-13a. Even distribution of concessions required.

Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, all moneys received pursuant to the authority of this article, as revenues from concessions from any facility operating under the authority of the parkways authority shall, for the purpose of economic development, be distributed in equal portions to all counties within a seventy-five mile radius from any portion of the West Virginia Turnpike, regardless of the size of the county or the number of residential inhabitants.






NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require the even distribution of concessions derived from facilities operating under the authority of the parkways authority to all counties within a seventy-five mile radius of the turnpike to fund economic development in such county.

Section thirteen-a is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.