ENROLLED
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 461
(Senator Chafin, original sponsor)
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[Passed April 13, 2001; in effect ninety days from passage.]
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AN ACT to amend article six, chapter twenty-four of the code of
West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section
twelve, relating to local emergency telephone systems; and
providing for the establishment of a local policy for the
dispatching of emergency towing services under certain
situations.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article six, chapter twenty-four of the code of West
Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be
amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section twelve,
to read as follows:
ARTICLE 6. LOCAL EMERGENCY TELEPHONE SYSTEM.
§24-6-12. Dispatching of towing services for emergency towing of vehicles; exceptions.
(a) Every three years, the county commission of each county or
the municipality operating an emergency telephone system or an
enhanced emergency telephone system shall, in consultation with all
public safety units, public agencies and all available towing
services registered as common carriers pursuant to the provisions
chapter twenty-four-a of this code, establish a policy that
provides for the most prompt, fair, equitable and effective
response to requests or dispatches for emergency towing services.
(b) For each incident where towing services are required, the
public agency procuring towing services shall maintain a public
record of the name of the towing service utilized.