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 Orgas 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 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 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.