157 CSR 7

                                  Senate Bill No. 281

(By Senator Minard)

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[Introduced January 18, 2012; referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure; and then to the Committee on the Judiciary.]

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A BILL to amend and reenact article 8, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Commissioner of Highways to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the transportation of hazardous wastes upon the roads and highways.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

    That article 8, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

ARTICLE 8. AUTHORIZATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-8-1. Commissioner of Highways.

    The legislative rule filed in the State Register on the eighth day of July, two thousand eleven, authorized under the authority of section seven, article eighteen, chapter twenty-two, of this code, relating to the Commissioner of Highways (transportation of hazardous wastes upon the roads and highways, 157 CSR 7), is authorized.

    NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Commissioner of Highways to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Transportation of Hazardous Wastes upon the Roads and Highways.

    This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.