WEST virginia Legislature
2018 regular session
Introduced
Senate Bill 344
By Senators Sypolt and Baldwin
[Introduced January
23, 2018; Referred
to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure; and then to the
Committee on Finance]
A BILL to amend and reenact §17-2A-14 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to disposition of certain surplus equipment and materials; and requiring recycling of metal if cost effective.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 2A. WEST VIRGINIA COMMISSIONER OF HIGHWAys.
§17-2A-14. Disposition of surplus, etc., equipment and materials; inventories; requiring metal recycling if cost effective.
(a) The commissioner shall dispose of obsolete and
unusable equipment, surplus supplies and other unneeded materials, either by
transfer to other governmental agencies or institutions, by exchange or trade,
or by sale as junk or otherwise. The commissioner shall adopt and promulgate
rules and regulations governing and controlling the disposition of all
such equipment, supplies and materials. He or she shall advertise, by
newspaper publication or otherwise, the availability or sales of such
disposable equipment, supplies and materials and may sell same, in whole or in
part, at public auction, or may transfer, exchange or trade same (if by
exchange or trade, then without advertising), in whole or in part, as sound
business practices may warrant under existing circumstances and conditions. The
commissioner shall inventory all such disposable equipment, supplies and
materials from time to time as quantity and stocks may warrant but shall make a
complete semiannual inventory thereof as of March 31 and September 30, of each
year. He or she may report such the inventories to the
director of purchases whose services and facilities shall be available to the
commissioner in making advantageous disposition of any part or all of such
disposable equipment, supplies and materials. Such The inventories
shall briefly describe the disposable items, the date of purchase thereof, the
vendor to the commissioner, the purchase price paid therefor and the
commissioner's order number authorizing disposition thereof and shall indicate
briefly the reason said items are no longer needed or can no longer be used by
the commission. All such the inventories shall be kept as public
records open to public inspection at the office of the commissioner for a
period of five years and may thereafter be destroyed.
(b) The commissioner shall design and implement a policy to assure that surplus metal supplies, equipment and materials are recycled instead of discarded, if recycling is cost effective.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require the Commissioner of Highways to implement a program to recycle, rather than discard surplus metal supplies, materials and equipment if recycling is cost effective.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.