Senate Bill No. 278

(By Senators Ross, Minard,

Snyder, Boley and Minear)

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[Introduced January 23, 2003; referred to the

Committee on Transportation;

and then to the Committee on the Judiciary.]

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A BILL to amend and reenact section one, article eight, chapter sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to authorizing the division of highways to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the transportation of hazardous wastes upon the roads and highways .

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section one, article eight, chapter sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 8. AUTHORIZATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-8-1. Division of highways.
The legislative rule filed in the state register on the eighteenth twenty-fourth day of July, two thousand one two, under the authority of section seven, article eighteen, chapter twenty-two of this code, relating to the division of highways (transportation of hazardous wastes upon the roads and highways, 157 CSR 7), is authorized.


NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division of Highways to promulgate a legislative rule relating to
the Transportation of Hazardous Wastes upon the Roads and Highways .

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