Senate Bill No. 567
(By Senators Love, Ross, Rowe, Unger, Dempsey, Sprouse and White)
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[Introduced February 17, 2003; referred to the Committee on
Finance.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact section eighteen, article sixteen-a,
chapter seventeen of the code of West Virginia, one thousand
nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to providing a
reduced toll for motorcycles using the West Virginia turnpike.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section eighteen, article sixteen-a, 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 16A. WEST VIRGINIA PARKWAYS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND
TOURISM AUTHORITY.
§17-16A-18. Cessation of tolls; commuter pass system.
(a) Except as provided herein, when all bonds issued under the
provisions of this article in connection with any parkway project
or projects and the interest thereon shall have been paid or a
sufficient amount for the payment of all such bonds and the interest thereon to the maturity thereof shall have been set aside
in trust for the benefit of the bondholders, such project or
projects, if then in good condition and repair to the satisfaction
of the commissioner of the state division of highways, shall be
transferred to the state division of highways and shall thereafter
be maintained by the state division of highways free of tolls:
Provided, That the parkways authority may thereafter charge tolls
for the use of any such project and for the reconstruction,
improvement, maintenance and repair thereof, except as may be
limited by applicable federal laws, and pledge such tolls to the
payment of bonds issued under the provisions of this article in
connection with another project or projects, or any combination
thereof, but any such pledge of tolls of a parkway project to the
payment of bonds issued in connection with another project or
projects shall not be effectual until the principal of and the
interest on the bonds issued in connection with the first mentioned
project shall have been paid or provision made for their payment.
(b) No later than the first day of February, one thousand nine
hundred ninety, the parkways authority shall discontinue, remove
and not relocate all toll collection facilities on the West
Virginia Turnpike as the same existed on June first, one thousand
nine hundred eighty-nine, except for the three main toll barriers
and collection facilities, and provided solely that the provisions
of section eighteen-a are complied with, the toll collection facilities at the intersection of U.S. Route 19 (Corridor "L") and
said turnpike: Provided, That nothing herein may be construed to
prohibit placement of new tolls to the extent permitted by federal
law for any new expressway, turnpike, trunkline, feeder road, state
local service road, or park and forest road connected to the West
Virginia Turnpike and constructed after the first day of June, one
thousand nine hundred eighty-nine.
(c) Effective the first day of July, two thousand three, a
motorcycle, as defined in section one, article one, chapter
seventeen-a, of this code may be charged a reduced toll to travel
on the West Virginia turnpike.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide for a reduced
toll for motorcycles using the West Virginia turnpike
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.