ENROLLED
Senate Bill No. 98
(By Senators Love, Miller and Buckalew)
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[Passed March 9, 1996; in effect ninety days from passage.]
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AN ACT to amend article two-a, chapter seventeen of the code of
West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section
twenty-two, relating to authorizing the highways
commissioner to establish cost principles for engineering
and design contracts; and providing for legislative rule.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article two-a, chapter seventeen of the code of West
Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be
amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section
twenty-two, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2A. WEST VIRGINIA COMMISSIONER OF HIGHWAYS.
§17-2A-22. Administration of engineering and design related service contracts.
In order to promote engineering and design quality and to
ensure maximum competition by professional companies of all sizes
providing engineering and design services, the commissioner of
highways may establish cost principles for determining the
reasonableness and allowability of various costs. These cost
principles will govern the overhead ceilings, salary limits,
expense reimbursement and any other cost the commissioner may
deem necessary to regulate. The commissioner of highways shall
propose a legislative rule pursuant to article three, chapter
twenty-nine-a of this code regarding standard cost principles for
determining the reasonableness and allowability of various costs.
The legislative rule may include provisions for deviations from
the standard cost principles in special situations and
circumstances.