H. B. 2301
(By Delegates Prunty, Caputo and Manchin)
[Introduced February 19, 2001; referred to the
Committee on Roads and Transportation then the Judiciary.]
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
six-b, relating to requiring motor vehicles carrying logs or
timber to use steel supports to contain the logs.
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 section six-b,
to read as follows:
ARTICLE 17. SIZE, WEIGHT AND LOAD.
§17C-17-6b. Vehicles transporting logs or timber.
It is unlawful for any person operating a vehicle or
combination of vehicles transporting logs or timber upon a highway
in an open motor vehicle to transport the logs or timber unless the
vehicle or combination of vehicles is so constructed or loaded and
equipped with steel supports to contain the load of logs or timber from dropping, shifting or otherwise escaping from the vehicle or
combination of vehicles. A vehicle or combination of vehicles that
uses only nylon straps or straps made of some other material,
without steel supports to contain the load does not meet the
requirements of this section.
The commissioner of the division of highways is hereby
authorized and directed to propose a legislative rule governing the
design of the steel supports and the transportation of logs and
timber by vehicles upon the highways for promulgation in accordance
with the provisions of chapter twenty-nine-a of this code.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to
require motor vehicles
carrying logs or timber to use steel supports to contain the logs,
rather than just nylon straps.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.