Bill Text: VA HB712 | 2018 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Highways, bridges, interchanges, and other transportation facilities; authority to name.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-03-10 - Left in Transportation [HB712 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2018-HB712-Prefiled.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §33.2-213 of the Code of Virginia is amended as follows:
§33.2-213. Naming highways, bridges, interchanges, and other transportation facilities.
The Board shall have the power and duty to give suitable names
to state highways, bridges, interchanges, and other transportation facilities
and change the names of any highways, bridges, interchanges, or other
transportation facilities forming a part of the systems of state highways. The, except such highways, bridges, interchanges, or
other transportation facilities as have been or may hereafter be named by the
General Assembly, provided that
the names of private entities,
as defined in §33.2-1800, located within the
Commonwealth living persons
shall not be used for such purposes unless such
private entity pays the Department an annual naming rights fee as determined by
the Board. The Department shall place and maintain
appropriate signs indicating the names of highways, bridges, interchanges, and
other transportation facilities named by the Board or by the General Assembly.
The costs of producing, placing, and maintaining these signs shall be paid by
the localities in which they are located or by the private
entity whose name is attached to the highway, bridge, interchange, or other
transportation facility. No name shall be given to any
state highway, bridge, interchange, or other transportation facility by the
Board unless and until the Board receives from the governing body of the
locality within which a portion of the facility to be named is located a
resolution of that governing body requesting such naming,
except in such cases where a private entity has requested the naming. No highway,
bridge, interchange, or other transportation facility previously named by the
Board or the General Assembly shall be eligible for renaming by a private
entity, unless such naming incorporates the previous name. The Board shall
develop and approve guidelines governing the naming of highways, bridges,
interchanges, and other transportation facilities by private entities and the
applicable fees for such naming rights. Such fees shall be deposited in the
Highway Maintenance and Operating Fund established pursuant to §33.2-1530.
No name shall be
eligible for the naming rights under this section if it in any way reasonably
connotes anything that (i) is profane, obscene, or vulgar; (ii) is sexually
explicit or graphic; (iii) is excretory related; (iv) is descriptive of
intimate body parts or genitals; (v) is descriptive of illegal activities or
substances; (vi) condones or encourages violence; or (vii) is socially,
racially, or ethnically offensive or disparaging.
2. That the third enactment of Chapter 729 and the third enactment of Chapter 733 of the Acts of Assembly of 2012 are repealed.