Bill Text: WV HB2112 | 2019 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to failure to maintain state and public roads

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-01-09 - To House Technology and Infrastructure [HB2112 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2019-HB2112-Introduced.html

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WEST virginia legislature

2019 regular session

Introduced

House Bill 2112

By Delegate Thompson

[Introduced January 9, 2019; Referred
to the Committee on Technology and Infrastructure then the Judiciary.]

A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §17-4-5a, relating to requiring that state and public roads that have not been maintained for a period of three consecutive years shall be returned to their original tract of land.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 4. STATE ROAD SYSTEM.

§17-4-5a. Failure to maintain state and public roads.

(a) For the purpose of this subsection, “maintain” shall mean to patch, pave, repair or mow.

(b) Any state or public road the Division of Highways or a political subdivision of the State of West Virginia has failed to maintain for a period of three consecutive years shall be returned to the original tract of land from which it was taken.

 

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require that state and public roads that have not been maintained for a period of three consecutive years shall be returned to their original tract of land.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.