WEST virginia legislature

2022 regular session

ENROLLED

Committee Substitute

for

House Bill 4062

By Delegates Criss and Booth
(By Request of the Division of Highways)

[Passed February 10, 2022; in effect ninety days from passage.]

AN ACT to amend and reenact §17-2A-2 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to modifying the residency requirement for the Commissioner of the Division of Highways.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 2A. WEST VIRGINIA COMMISSIONER OF HIGHWAYS.

§17-2A-2. Qualifications; office requirements; devotion of full time to duties; supervisory authority; oath; bond.

The commissioner shall be a person who is experienced in highway planning, finance, construction, maintenance, management and supervision qualifying him or her for the duties of his or her office; shall devote his or her full time and attention to his or her official duties and responsibilities; shall be a resident of West Virginia; shall maintain his or her office headquarters at the state capital; shall be the chief executive officer of the commission and, subject to other provisions of law, shall have direct and full control, management and supervision of the entire state road program and system; and shall, prior to assumption of the duties of his or her office, take and subscribe to the oath prescribed by the Constitution and execute a bond, with surety approved by the commission, in the penal sum of $25,000, which executed oath and bond shall be filed with the Secretary of State. Premiums on the commissioner’s bond shall be paid from commission funds.

The Joint Committee on Enrolled Bills hereby certifies that the foregoing bill is correctly enrolled.

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        Chairman, House Committee

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                             Chairman, Senate Committee

Originating in the House.

In effect ninety days from passage.

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                  Clerk of the House of Delegates

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                                                  Clerk of the Senate

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                                                   Speaker of the House of Delegates

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                                                                                     President of the Senate

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                                                                                    Governor