H. B. 2513
(By Delegates Browning, Gallagher, Smith,
Staton and Manuel)
[Introduced March 9, 1993; referred to the
Committee on Finance.]
A BILL to amend article four, chapter seventeen of the code of
West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section
seventeen-d, relating to including public utility relocation
costs and relocation costs of any pipeline company subject
to the jurisdiction of the federal energy regulatory
commission as a cost of construction or upgrading of
highways under the Federal Intermodal Surface Transportation
Efficiency Act of 1991.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article four, 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
seventeen-d, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 4. STATE ROAD SYSTEM.
§17-4-17d. Relocation of public utility lines, pipelines and
facilities deemed a cost of construction on
highway construction and upgrading projects
authorized in the Intermodal Surface
Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991.
The commissioner of highways is hereby authorized to include
within the cost of highway construction the cost of relocation
necessarily incurred by any public utility, and any pipeline
company subject to the jurisdiction of the federal energy
regulatory commission, in relocating any public utility line,
pipeline or facility as a result of the construction or upgrading
of highways as authorized by the Federal Intermodal Surface
Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, and all acts amendatory
and supplementary thereto.
For the purposes of this section, the term "cost of
relocation" has the same meaning as in section seventeen-b of
this article.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize inclusion
within the cost of highway construction the cost of relocation of
public utility lines, pipelines and facilities as a result of
construction or upgrading of highways authorized by the Federal
Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.