ENROLLED
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 359
(Senators Tomblin, Mr. President, Jackson and Wooton,
original sponsors)
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[Passed March 11, 1995; in effect ninety days from passage.]
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AN ACT 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; authorizing the commissioner of highways to
determine whether certain portions of state route 61 and
county route 72 in Kanawha County may be designated an
industrial road; and authorizing the commissioner to set
the gross weight limitations on such 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 section
eleven-c, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 17. SIZE, WEIGHT AND LOAD.
§17C-17-11c. Designating an industrial road; setting weight
limits.
(a) 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 state route 3 at Orgas in Boone
County, meet the specifications required by the commissioner to
designate the road an industrial road.
(b) After the determination as required by subsection (a)
is made and all modifications and repairs necessary to meet the
specifications of the division of highways are completed, the
commissioner 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 state route
3 at Orgas in Boone County, an industrial road.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other section of this article, the commissioner may set the gross weight
limitations applicable to that portion of state route 61 and
County route 72 designated an industrial road not to exceed
eighty thousand pounds.