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Senate Bill No. 142
(By Senators Walters, Blair and Carmichael)
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[Introduced February 13, 2013; referred to the Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure; and then to the Committee on
Finance .]
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A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by
adding thereto a new section, designated §7-1-3pp; to amend
and reenact §8-12-5 of said code; and to amend and reenact
§17-2A-8 of said code, all relating to authorizing the
construction of improvements of streets, alleys, sidewalks,
roads and highways by private investors in the state, counties
and municipalities; permitting advertising by the private
investors of the improvements; providing that the rates for
the advertisements are to be determined by the Commissioner of
Highways, the county commission and the municipality,
respectively, for the various improvements; and requiring that
money received from advertising
sponsorship by private
investors for improvements of state roads and highways be
deposited in the State Road Fund.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended
by adding thereto a new section, designated §7-1-3pp; to amend and
reenact §8-12-5 of said code; and that §17-2A-8 of said code be
amended and reenacted, all to read as follows:
CHAPTER 7. COUNTY COMMISSIONS AND OFFICERS.
ARTICLE 1. COUNTY COMMISSIONS GENERALLY.
§7-1-3pp. Construction of improvements of streets, alleys and
sidewalks by private investors; improved streets and
maintenance of roads not in the state road system.
In addition to all other powers and duties now conferred by
law upon county commissions, such commissions may make and
promulgate rules for the construction, reconstruction, repair and
maintenance of streets, alleys, sidewalks, roads, highways, drains
and gutters through investments by private company or corporate
sponsors: Provided, That any such roads or highways are not in the
state highway system. In return for the investment for
reconstruction, repair or maintenance of streets, alleys,
sidewalks, roads, highways, drains and gutters by private companies
or corporations, the private companies or corporations may place
advertising on signs, to be placed along the affected street,
alley, sidewalk, road, highway, drains and gutters that feature the
logo of the company or corporation name and a statement that the company or corporation is sponsoring the street, alley, sidewalk,
road, highway or portion of the street, alley, sidewalk, road,
highway, drains or gutters. A safety message may be included on
the sign: Provided, however, That such authority and power herein
conferred upon county commissions may not extend into the territory
within any municipal corporation: Provided, further, That any
county commission may enter into contracts or agreements with any
municipality within the county, or with a municipality in an
adjoining county, with reference to the exercise of the powers
vested in the commissions by this section. The county commission
shall determine the rate private companies or corporations are to
be charged for advertising the sponsorship of streets, avenues,
roads, alleys, ways, sidewalks, drains or gutters.
CHAPTER 8. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS.
ARTICLE 12. GENERAL AND SPECIFIC POWERS, DUTIES AND ALLIED
RELATIONS OF MUNICIPALITIES, GOVERNING BODIES AND
MUNICIPAL OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES; SUITS AGAINST
MUNICIPALITIES.
§8-12-5. General powers of every municipality and the governing
body thereof.
In addition to the powers and authority granted by: (i) The
Constitution of this state; (ii) other provisions of this chapter;
(iii) other general law; and (iv) any charter, and to the extent not inconsistent or in conflict with any of the foregoing except
special legislative charters, every municipality and the governing
body thereof shall have plenary power and authority therein by
ordinance or resolution, as the case may require, and by
appropriate action based thereon:
(1) To lay off, establish, construct, open, alter, curb,
recurb, pave or repave and keep in good repair, or vacate,
discontinue and close, streets, avenues, roads, alleys, ways,
sidewalks, drains and gutters, for the use of the public, and to
improve and light the same, and have them kept free from
obstructions on or over them which have not been authorized
pursuant to the succeeding provisions of this subdivision; and,
subject to such terms and conditions as the governing body shall
prescribe, to permit, without in any way limiting the power and
authority granted by the provisions of article sixteen of this
chapter, any person to construct and maintain a passageway,
building or other structure overhanging or crossing the airspace
above a public street, avenue, road, alley, way, sidewalk or
crosswalk, but before any permission for any person to construct
and maintain a passageway, building or other structure overhanging
or crossing any airspace is granted, a public hearing thereon shall
be held by the governing body after publication of a notice of the
date, time, place and purpose of the public hearing has been
published as a Class I legal advertisement in compliance with the provisions of article three, chapter fifty-nine of this code and
the publication area for the publication shall be the municipality:
Provided, That any permit so granted shall automatically cease and
terminate in the event of abandonment and nonuse thereof for the
purposes intended for a period of ninety days, and all rights
therein or thereto shall revert to the municipality for its use and
benefit;
(2) To make and promulgate rules for the construction,
reconstruction, repair and maintenance of streets, avenues, roads,
alleys, ways, sidewalks, drains and gutters through investments by
private company or corporate sponsors to repair and maintain
streets, avenues, roads, alleys, ways, sidewalks, drains and
gutters: Provided, That any such roads are not in the state
highway system. In return for the investment for reconstruction,
repair or maintenance of streets, avenues, roads, alleys, ways,
sidewalks, drains and gutters by private companies or corporations,
the private companies or corporations may place advertising on
signs, to be placed along or on the affected streets, avenues,
roads, alleys, ways, sidewalks, drains and gutters, that feature
the logo of the company or corporation name and a statement that
the company or corporation is sponsoring the streets, avenues,
roads, alleys, ways, sidewalks, drains and gutters or portion of
the streets, avenues, roads, alleys, ways, sidewalks, drains and
gutters. A safety message may be included on the sign. The municipality and the governing body thereof shall determine the
rate private companies or corporations are to be charged for
sponsorship of streets, avenues, roads, alleys, ways, sidewalks,
drains and gutters.
_____(2) (3) To provide for the opening and excavation of streets,
avenues, roads, alleys, ways, sidewalks, crosswalks and public
places belonging to the municipality and regulate the conditions
under which any such opening may be made;
(3) (4) To prevent by proper penalties the throwing,
depositing or permitting to remain on any street, avenue, road,
alley, way, sidewalk, square or other public place any glass, scrap
iron, nails, tacks, wire, other litter or any offensive matter or
anything likely to injure the feet of individuals or animals or the
tires of vehicles;
(4) (5) To regulate the use of streets, avenues, roads,
alleys, ways, sidewalks, crosswalks and public places belonging to
the municipality, including the naming or renaming thereof, and to
consult with local postal authorities, the Division of Highways and
the directors of county emergency communications centers to assure
uniform, nonduplicative addressing on a permanent basis;
(5) (6) To regulate the width of streets, avenues and roads,
and, subject to the provisions of article eighteen of this chapter,
to order the sidewalks, footways and crosswalks to be paved,
repaved, curbed or recurbed and kept in good order, free and clean, by the owners or occupants thereof or of the real property next
adjacent thereto;
(6) (7) To establish, construct, alter, operate and maintain,
or discontinue, bridges, tunnels and ferries and approaches
thereto;
(7) (8) To provide for the construction and maintenance of
water drains, the drainage of swamps or marshlands and drainage
systems;
(8) (9) To provide for the construction, maintenance and
covering over of watercourses;
(9) (10) To control and administer the waterfront and
waterways of the municipality and to acquire, establish, construct,
operate and maintain and regulate flood control works, wharves and
public landings, warehouses and all adjuncts and facilities for
navigation and commerce and the utilization of the waterfront and
waterways and adjacent property;
(10) (11) To prohibit the accumulation and require the
disposal of garbage, refuse, debris, wastes, ashes, trash and other
similar accumulations whether on private or public property:
Provided, That, in the event the municipality annexes an area which
has been receiving solid waste collection services from a
certificated solid waste motor carrier, the municipality and the
solid waste motor carrier may negotiate an agreement for
continuation of the private solid waste motor carrier services for a period of time, not to exceed three years, during which time the
certificated solid waste motor carrier may continue to provide
exclusive solid waste collection services in the annexed territory;
(11) (12) To construct, establish, acquire, equip, maintain
and operate incinerator plants and equipment and all other
facilities for the efficient removal and destruction of garbage,
refuse, wastes, ashes, trash and other similar matters;
(12) (13) To regulate or prohibit the purchase or sale of
articles intended for human use or consumption which are unfit for
use or consumption, or which may be contaminated or otherwise
unsanitary;
(13) (14) To prevent injury or annoyance to the public or
individuals from anything dangerous, offensive or unwholesome;
(14) (15) To regulate the keeping of gunpowder and other
combustibles;
(15) (16) To make regulations guarding against danger or
damage by fire;
(16) (17) To arrest, convict and punish any individual for
carrying about his or her person any revolver or other pistol,
dirk, bowie knife, razor, slingshot, billy, metallic or other false
knuckles or any other dangerous or other deadly weapon of like kind
or character;
(17) (18) To arrest, convict and punish any person for
importing, printing, publishing, selling or distributing any pornographic publications;
(18) (19) To arrest, convict and punish any person for keeping
a house of ill fame, or for letting to another person any house or
other building for the purpose of being used or kept as a house of
ill fame, or for knowingly permitting any house owned by him or her
or under his or her control to be kept or used as a house of ill
fame, or for loafing, boarding or loitering in a house of ill fame,
or frequenting same;
(19) (20) To prevent and suppress conduct and practices which
are immoral, disorderly, lewd, obscene and indecent;
(20) (21) To prevent the illegal sale of intoxicating liquors,
drinks, mixtures and preparations;
(21) (22) To arrest, convict and punish any individual for
driving or operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated or under the
influence of liquor, drugs or narcotics;
(22) (23) To arrest, convict and punish any person for
gambling or keeping any gaming tables, commonly called "A, B, C,"
or "E, O," table or faro bank or keno table, or table of like kind,
under any denomination, whether the gaming table be played with
cards, dice or otherwise, or any person who shall be a partner or
concerned in interest, in keeping or exhibiting the table or bank,
or keeping or maintaining any gaming house or place, or betting or
gambling for money or anything of value;
(23) (24) To provide for the elimination of hazards to public health and safety and to abate or cause to be abated anything which
in the opinion of a majority of the governing body is a public
nuisance;
(24) (25) To license, or for good cause to refuse to license
in a particular case, or in its discretion to prohibit in all
cases, the operation of pool and billiard rooms and the maintaining
for hire of pool and billiard tables notwithstanding the general
law as to state licenses for any such business and the provisions
of section four, article thirteen of this chapter; and when the
municipality, in the exercise of its discretion, refuses to grant
a license to operate a pool or billiard room, mandamus may not lie
to compel the municipality to grant the license unless it shall
clearly appear that the refusal of the municipality to grant a
license is discriminatory or arbitrary; and in the event that the
municipality determines to license any business, the municipality
has plenary power and authority and it shall be the duty of its
governing body to make and enforce reasonable ordinances regulating
the licensing and operation of the businesses;
(25) (26) To protect places of divine worship and to preserve
peace and order in and about the premises where held;
(26) (27) To regulate or prohibit the keeping of animals or
fowls and to provide for the impounding, sale or destruction of
animals or fowls kept contrary to law or found running at large;
(27) (28) To arrest, convict and punish any person for cruelly, unnecessarily or needlessly beating, torturing,
mutilating, killing, or overloading or overdriving or willfully
depriving of necessary sustenance any domestic animal;
(28) (29) To provide for the regular building of houses or
other structures, for the making of division fences by the owners
of adjacent premises and for the drainage of lots by proper drains
and ditches;
(29) (30) To provide for the protection and conservation of
shade or ornamental trees, whether on public or private property,
and for the removal of trees or limbs of trees in a dangerous
condition;
(30) (31) To prohibit with or without zoning the location of
occupied house trailers or mobile homes in certain residential
areas;
(31) (32) To regulate the location and placing of signs,
billboards, posters and similar advertising;
(32) (33) To erect, establish, construct, acquire, improve,
maintain and operate a gas system, a waterworks system, an electric
system or sewer system and sewage treatment and disposal system, or
any combination of the foregoing (subject to all of the pertinent
provisions of articles nineteen and twenty of this chapter and
particularly to the limitations or qualifications on the right of
eminent domain set forth in articles nineteen and twenty), within
or without the corporate limits of the municipality, except that the municipality may not erect any system partly without the
corporate limits of the municipality to serve persons already
obtaining service from an existing system of the character proposed
and where the system is by the municipality erected, or has
heretofore been so erected, partly within and partly without the
corporate limits of the municipality, the municipality has the
right to lay and collect charges for service rendered to those
served within and those served without the corporate limits of the
municipality and to prevent injury to the system or the pollution
of the water thereof and its maintenance in a healthful condition
for public use within the corporate limits of the municipality;
(33) (34) To acquire watersheds, water and riparian rights,
plant sites, rights-of-way and any and all other property and
appurtenances necessary, appropriate, useful, convenient or
incidental to any system, waterworks or sewage treatment and
disposal works, as aforesaid, subject to all of the pertinent
provisions of articles nineteen and twenty of this chapter;
(34) (35) To establish, construct, acquire, maintain and
operate and regulate markets and prescribe the time of holding the
same;
(35) (36) To regulate and provide for the weighing of articles
sold or for sale;
(36) (37) To establish, construct, acquire, maintain and
operate public buildings, municipal buildings or city halls, Auditoriums, arenas, jails, juvenile detention centers or homes,
motor vehicle parking lots or any other public works;
(37) (38) To establish, construct, acquire, provide, equip,
maintain and operate recreational parks, playgrounds and other
recreational facilities for public use and in this connection also
to proceed in accordance with the provisions of article two,
chapter ten of this code;
(38) (39) To establish, construct, acquire, maintain and
operate a public library or museum or both for public use;
(39) (40) To provide for the appointment and financial support
of a library board in accordance with the provisions of article
one, chapter ten of this code;
(40) (41) To establish and maintain a public health unit in
accordance with the provisions of section two, article two, chapter
sixteen of this code, which unit shall exercise its powers and
perform its duties subject to the supervision and control of the
West Virginia Board of Health and State Bureau for Public Health;
(41) (42) To establish, construct, acquire, maintain and
operate hospitals, sanitarians and dispensaries;
(42) (43) To acquire, by purchase, condemnation or otherwise,
land within or near the corporate limits of the municipality for
providing and maintaining proper places for the burial of the dead
and to maintain and operate the same and regulate interments
therein upon terms and conditions as to price and otherwise as may be determined by the governing body and, in order to carry into
effect the authority, the governing body may acquire any cemetery
or cemeteries already established;
(43) (44) To exercise general police jurisdiction over any
territory without the corporate limits owned by the municipality or
over which it has a right-of-way;
(44) (45) To protect and promote the public morals, safety,
health, welfare and good order;
(45) (46) To adopt rules for the transaction of business and
the government and regulation of its governing body;
(46) (47) Except as otherwise provided, to require and take
bonds from any officers, when considered necessary, payable to the
municipality, in its corporate name, with such sureties and in a
penalty as the governing body may see fit, conditioned upon the
faithful discharge of their duties;
(47) (48) To require and take from the employees and
contractors such bonds in a penalty, with such sureties and with
such conditions, as the governing body may see fit;
(48) (49) To investigate and inquire into all matters of
concern to the municipality or its inhabitants;
(49) (50) To establish, construct, require, maintain and
operate such instrumentalities, other than free public schools, for
the instruction, enlightenment, improvement, entertainment,
recreation and welfare of the municipality's inhabitants as the governing body may consider necessary or appropriate for the public
interest;
(50) (51) To create, maintain and operate a system for the
enumeration, identification and registration, or either, of the
inhabitants of the municipality and visitors thereto, or the
classes thereof as may be considered advisable;
(51) (52) To require owners, residents or occupants of
factory-built homes situated in a factory-built rental home
community with at least ten factory-built homes, to visibly post
the specific numeric portion of the address of each factory-built
home on the immediate premises of the factory-built home of
sufficient size to be visible from the adjoining street: Provided,
That in the event no numeric or other specific designation of an
address exists for a factory-built home subject to the
authorization granted by this subdivision, the municipality has the
authority to provide a numeric or other specific designation of an
address for the factory-built home and require that it be posted in
accordance with the authority otherwise granted by this section.
(52) (53) To appropriate and expend not exceeding 25¢ per
capita per annum for advertising the municipality and the
entertainment of visitors;
(53) (54) To conduct programs to improve community relations
and public relations generally and to expend municipal revenue for
such purposes;
(54) (55) To reimburse applicants for employment by the
municipality for travel and other reasonable and necessary expenses
actually incurred by the applicants in traveling to and from the
municipality to be interviewed;
(55) (56) To provide revenue for the municipality and
appropriate the same to its expenses;
(56) (57) To create and maintain an Employee Benefits Fund
which may not exceed one tenth of one percent of the annual payroll
budget for general employee benefits and which is set up for the
purpose of stimulating and encouraging employees to develop and
implement cost-saving ideas and programs and to expend moneys from
the fund for these purposes;
(57) (58) To enter into reciprocal agreements with
governmental subdivisions or agencies of any state sharing a common
border for the protection of people and property from fire and for
emergency medical services and for the reciprocal use of equipment
and personnel for these purposes;
(58) (59) To provide penalties for the offenses and violations
of law mentioned in this section, subject to the provisions of
section one, article eleven of this chapter, and such penalties may
not exceed any penalties provided in this chapter and chapter
sixty-one of this code for like offenses and violations; and
(59) (60) To participate in a purchasing card program for
local governments authorized and administered by the State Auditor as an alternative payment method.
CHAPTER 17. ROADS AND HIGHWAYS.
ARTICLE 2A. WEST VIRGINIA COMMISSIONER OF HIGHWAYS.
§17-2A-8. Powers, duties and responsibilities of commissioner.
In addition to all other duties, powers and responsibilities
given and assigned to the commissioner in this chapter, the
commissioner may:
(1) Exercise general supervision over the state road program
and the construction, reconstruction, repair and maintenance of
state roads and highways;
(2) Determine the various methods of road construction best
adapted to the various sections and areas of the state and
establish standards for the construction and maintenance of roads
and highways in the various sections and areas of the state;
(3) Conduct investigations and experiments, hold hearings and
public meetings and attend and participate in meetings and
conferences within and without the state for purposes of acquiring
information, making findings and determining courses of action and
procedure relative to advancement and improvement of the state road
and highway system;
(4) Enter private lands to make inspections and surveys for
road and highway purposes;
(5) Acquire, in name of the department, by lease, grant, right
of eminent domain or other lawful means all lands and interests and rights in lands necessary and required for roads, rights-of-way,
cuts, fills, drains, storage for equipment and materials and road
construction and maintenance in general;
(6) Procure photostatic copies of any or all public records on
file at the State Capitol of Virginia which may be considered
necessary or proper in ascertaining the location and legal status
of public road rights-of-way located or established in what is now
the State of West Virginia, which when certified by the
commissioner, may be admitted in evidence, in lieu of the original,
in any of the courts of this state;
(7) Plan for and hold annually a school of good roads, of not
less than three or more than six days' duration, for instruction of
his or her employees, which is held in conjunction with West
Virginia University and may be held at the university or at any
other suitable place in the state;
(8) Negotiate and enter in reciprocal contracts and agreements
with proper authorities of other states and of the United States
relating to and regulating the use of roads and highways with
reference to weights and types of vehicles, registration of
vehicles and licensing of operators, military and emergency
movements of personnel and supplies and all other matters of
interstate or national interest;
(9) Classify and reclassify, locate and relocate, expressway,
trunkline, feeder and state local service roads and designate by number the routes within the state road system;
(10) Create, extend or establish, upon petition of any
interested party or parties or on the commissioner's own
initiative, any new road or highway found necessary and proper;
(11) Exercise jurisdiction, control, supervision and authority
over local roads, outside the state road system, to the extent
determined by him or her to be expedient and practicable;
(12) Discontinue, vacate and close any road or highway, or any
part of any road or highway, the continuance and maintenance of
which are found unnecessary and improper, upon petition and hearing
or upon investigation initiated by the commissioner;
(13) Close any state road while under construction or repair
and provide a temporary road during the time of the construction or
repair;
(14) Adjust damages occasioned by construction, reconstruction
or repair of any state road or the establishment of any temporary
road;
(15) Establish and maintain a uniform system of road signs and
markers;
(16) Fix standard widths for road rights-of-way, bridges and
approaches to bridges and fix and determine grades and elevations
therefor;
(17) Test and standardize materials used in road construction
and maintenance, either by governmental testing and standardization activities or through contract by private agencies;
(18) Allocate the cost of retaining walls and drainage
projects, for the protection of a state road or its right-of-way,
to the cost of construction, reconstruction, improvement or
maintenance;
(19) Acquire, establish, construct, maintain and operate, in
the name of the department, roadside recreational areas along and
adjacent to state roads and highways;
(20) Exercise general supervision over the construction and
maintenance of airports and landing fields under the jurisdiction
of the West Virginia state aeronautics commission, of which the
commissioner is a member, and make a study and general plan of a
statewide system of airports and landing fields;
(21) Provide traffic engineering services to municipalities of
the state upon request of the governing body of any municipality
and upon terms that are agreeably arranged;
(22) Institute complaints before the Public Service Commission
or any other appropriate governmental agency relating to freight
rates, car service and movement of road materials and equipment;
(23) Invoke any appropriate legal or equitable remedies to
enforce his or her orders, to compel compliance with requirements
of law and to protect and preserve the state road and highway
system or any part of the system;
(24) Make and promulgate rules for the government and conduct of personnel, for the orderly and efficient administration and
supervision of the state road program and for the effective and
expeditious performance and discharge of the duties and
responsibilities placed upon him or her by law;
(25) Delegate powers and duties to his or her appointees and
employees who shall act by and under his or her direction and be
responsible to him or her for their acts;
(26) Designate and define any construction and maintenance
districts within the state road system that is found expedient and
practicable;
(27) Contract for the construction, improvement and
maintenance of the roads;
(28) Comply with provisions of present and future federal aid
statutes and regulations, including execution of contracts or
agreements with and cooperation in programs of the United States
government and any proper department, bureau or agency of the
United States government relating to plans, surveys, construction,
reconstruction, improvement and maintenance of state roads and
highways;
(29) Prepare budget estimates and requests;
(30) Establish a system of accounting covering and including
all fiscal and financial matters of the department;
(31) Establish and advance a right-of-way acquisition
revolving fund, a materials revolving fund and an equipment revolving fund;
(32) Enter into contracts and agreements with and cooperate in
programs of counties, municipalities and other governmental
agencies and subdivisions of the state relating to plans, surveys,
construction, reconstruction, improvement, maintenance and
supervision of highways, roads, streets and other travel ways when
and to the extent determined by the department to be expedient and
practical;
(33) Report, as provided by law, to the Governor and the
Legislature;
(34) Purchase materials, supplies and equipment required for
the state road program and system;
(35) Dispose of all obsolete and unusable and surplus supplies
and materials which cannot be used advantageously and beneficially
by the department in the state road program by transfer of the
supplies and materials to other governmental agencies and
institutions by exchange, trade or sale of the supplies and
materials;
(36) Investigate road conditions, official conduct of
department personnel and fiscal and financial affairs of the
department and hold hearings and make findings thereon or on any
other matters within the jurisdiction of the department;
(37) Establish road policies and administrative practices;
(38) Fix and revise from time to time tolls for transit over highway projects constructed by the Division of Highways after May
1, 1999, that have been authorized by the provisions of section
five-b, article seventeen-a of this chapter;
(39) Take actions necessary to alleviate any conditions as the
Governor may declare to constitute an emergency, whether or not the
emergency condition affects areas normally under the jurisdiction
of the department of highways; and
(40) Provide family restrooms at all rest areas along
interstate highways in this state, all to be constructed in
accordance with federal law.
(41) Make and promulgate rules for the construction,
reconstruction, repair and maintenance of state roads and highways,
including allowing investments by private company or corporate
sponsors to repair and maintain state roads and highways. In
return for the investment for reconstruction, repair or maintenance
of state roads and highways by private companies or corporations,
the private companies or corporations may place advertising on
state signs, to be placed along the affected road or highway, that
feature the logo of the company or corporation, name and a
statement that the company or corporation is sponsoring the road,
highway or portion of the road or highway. A safety message may be
included on the sign. The commissioner shall determine the rate
private companies or corporations are to be charged for sponsorship
of a road or highway. All moneys collected for advertising sponsorship by private companies or corporations shall be deposited
into the State Road Fund. The commissioner shall set a goal of
obtaining a minimum of ten sponsors within a period of four years
after the implementation of this program.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the
construction of improvements of streets, alleys, sidewalks, roads
and highways by private investors in the state, counties and
municipalities. It permits advertising by the private investors of
the improvements with signs erected at the place of improvement.
The bill also authorizes the Commissioner of Highways, the county
commission and the municipality, respectively, to determine the
rates for the advertisements for the various improvements.
And,
the bill requires that money received for sponsorship by private
investors for improvements of state roads and highways
be deposited
in the State Road Fund.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.
§7-1-3pp is new; therefore strike-throughs and underscoring
have been omitted.