Senate Bill No. 195
(By Senator Deem and Rowe)
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[Introduced January 14, 2002; referred to the Committee
on Natural Resources.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact section fourteen, article twenty-
two, chapter seventeen of the code of West Virginia, one
thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to
outdoor advertising; and requiring bond of licensees to
guarantee removal of signs.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section fourteen, article twenty-two, chapter seventeen
of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-
one, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 22. OUTDOOR ADVERTISING.
§17-22-14. Bond of licensee.
No such A license as is provided for in section thirteen of
this article shall be may not be granted to any person not
residing in this state or to any person having his principal place of business outside the state, or which is incorporated
outside the state, until such that person shall have has
furnished and filed with the commissioner a bond payable to the
state, with surety approved by the commissioner and in form
approved by the attorney general, in the sum of not less than
two thousand five hundred dollars, conditioned that such the
licensee shall fulfill fulfills all the requirements of law and
observe and obey observes and obeys all requirements of this
article, including the removal of outdoor advertising signs,
displays or devices after they cease to be usable. Such The
bond shall remain in full force and effect so long as any
obligations of such the license to the state shall remain
unsatisfied. All sums received from the forfeiture of any bond
or bonds required by this section shall be deposited in the
special fund created in section ten of this article and such
these sums shall be administered as provided by said section
ten.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require persons who
obtain licenses for outdoor advertising to post bonds that
guarantee, among other things the removal of the outdoor signs,
displays or devices when they cease to be usable.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken
from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language
that would be added.