Bill Text: WV HB2567 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to failure to maintain state and public roads
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-10 - To House Roads and Transportation [HB2567 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2018-HB2567-Introduced.html
WEST virginia
legislature
2017 regular session
By
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to the Committee on Roads and Transportation 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:
That the Code of West
Virginia, 1931 as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section,
designated §17-4-5a, to read as follows:
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.