Senate Bill No. 183

(By Senator Snyder)

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[Introduced January 8, 2014; 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 July 26, 2013, 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.