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Senate Bill No. 330

(By Senator Yost)

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[Introduced February 23, 1009; referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure; and then to the Committee on Finance.]





A BILL to amend and reenact §17C-3-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to requiring the Division of Highways being required to include distance and speed limits in kilometers on any traffic control devices that provide a distance to a certain location in miles or speed limits on particular rights-of-way that would otherwise have to be replaced as needed.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §17C-3-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 3. TRAFFIC SIGNS, SIGNALS AND MARKINGS.

§17C-3-1. Adoption of manual and specifications for uniform system of traffic-control devices.

(a) The State Road Commission Division of Highways shall adopt a manual and specifications for a uniform system of traffic-control devices consistent with the provisions of this chapter for use upon highways within this state. Such uniform system shall correlate with and so far as possible conform to the system then current as approved by the American association of state highway officials.
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), as the State of West Virginia is home to significant economic investments from other nations that use the metric system in the form of businesses and tourism and to facilitate further investments, the State Division of Highways shall include in the manual the requirement that any future traffic-control devices currently providing the distance to a certain location in miles or appropriate speed limits that would otherwise be replaced upon rights-of-way under the jurisdiction of the commissioner, shall provide the distance or speed limits in both miles and kilometers.
(c) Kilometers as referenced in this section are those units of measurement derived from the "International System of Units" as established in 1960 by the "General Conference on Weights and Measures" and interpreted or modified for the United States by the secretary of commerce [see Metric Conversion Act of 1975, section 3(1) and section 4(4), and "National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 814, `Metric System of Measurement; Interpretation of the International System of Units for the United States,'" or the Federal Register of December 20, 1990 (FR 90-21913)].
NOTE: This bill shall require the State Division of Highways to include distance and speed limits in kilometers to all applicable traffic control devices that would otherwise have to be replaced.

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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