ENGROSSED
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 359
(By Senators Tomblin, Mr. President, Jackson and Wooton)
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[Originating in the Committee on Transportation;
reported March 2, 1995.]
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A BILL to amend article seventeen, chapter seventeen-c of the
code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one,
as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated
section eleven-c, relating to roads and weight limits;
allowing the commissioner of highways to designate certain
portions of state route 61 and county route 72 in Kanawha
county and an extension thereof to state route 3 in Boone
county an industrial road; and allowing the commissioner to
set the gross weight limitations on this industrial road.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article seventeen, chapter seventeen-c of the code of
West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended,
be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated eleven-c,
to read as follows:
ARTICLE 17. SIZE, WEIGHT AND LOAD.
§17C-17-11c.
Designating an industrial road; setting weight
limits.
The commissioner of the division of highways shall determine if the design, construction and safety specifications of a
portion of state route 61 and county route 72, located in Kanawha
county, which is eighty-five hundredths of a mile in length, and
its extension to Orgas, state route 3, in Boone county, has the
specifications to designate the road an industrial road. After
determination, the commissioner then may designate that portion
of state route 61 and county route 72, located in Kanawha county,
which is eighty-five hundredths of a mile in length and its
extension to Orgas, state route 3, in Boone county, an industrial
road. The commissioner shall then set the gross weight
limitations applicable to that industrial road to not exceed
eighty thousand pounds.
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