H. B. 2979
(By Delegates Armstead and Harrison)
[Introduced February 26, 1999; referred to the
Committee on Roads and Transportation then Finance.]
A BILL to amend article sixteen-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
six-a, relating to transferring powers of construction and
maintenance activities of parkways authority, including the
transference of personnel and equipment used by the parkways
authority for maintenance and construction activities to the
division of highways.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article sixteen-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
six-a, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 16A. WEST VIRGINIA PARKWAYS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND
TOURISM AUTHORITY.
§17-16A-6a. Construction and maintenance powers transferred to
division of highways.
(a) Beginning on the first day of July, one thousand nine
hundred ninety-nine, the duties, powers and functions of the West
Virginia parkways authority related to any construction and
maintenance activities involving the West Virginia Turnpike are
hereby transferred to the division of highways. All personnel
and equipment used and designated for use by the West Virginia
parkways authority for construction or maintenance activities
involving or related to the West Virginia Turnpike shall, in
accordance with the transfer of duties, powers and functions
under this section, be placed under the authority and direction
of the division of highways.
(b) Nothing in this section may be construed to interfere
with any other duties, powers and functions of the West Virginia
parkways authority related to the issuance of revenue bonds, the
collection of tolls, the acquisition, holding, leasing or
disposing of property, or any other function not directly related
to construction or maintenance activities involving the West
Virginia Turnpike.
(c) The West Virginia parkways authority shall reimburse the
division of highways for all construction and maintenance costs
incurred by the division which are related to construction and
maintenance of the West Virginia Turnpike.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to transfer the powers of
construction and maintenance activities of the parkways
authority, including the transference of personnel and equipment
used by the parkways authority for maintenance and construction
activities, to the division of highways.
Section six-a is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.