H. B. 2659
(By Delegates Butcher, Kuhn, Dempsey, Claypole, H. White and Kominar)
[Introduced March 21, 1997; referred to the
Committee on Roads and Transportation.]
A BILL to amend and reenact section two, article six, chapter
seventeen-c of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine
hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to directing the
commissioner of highways to increase the speed limit to
sixty-five miles per hour on all controlled access corridor
highways in the state.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section two, article six, chapter seventeen-c of the
code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 6. SPEED RESTRICTIONS.
§17C-6-2. Establishment of state speed zones.
Whenever the
state road commissioner West Virginia
commissioner of highways shall determine determines upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that any speed
limit set forth in this article is greater or less than is
reasonable or safe under the conditions found to exist at any
intersection or other place or upon any part of a highway,
said
the commissioner may determine and declare a reasonable and safe
speed limit thereat which
shall be is effective at all times or
during hours of daylight or darkness or at
such other times as
may be determined when appropriate signs giving notice thereof
are erected at
such the intersection or other place or part of
the highway:
Provided, That effective the first day of July, one
thousand nine hundred ninety-seven, the commissioner of highways
shall raise the speed limit on all controlled-access corridor
highways within this state to sixty-five miles per hour.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to direct the West
Virginia commissioner of highways to raise the speed limit on
controlled access corridor highways to sixty-five (65) miles per
hour.
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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