Bill Text: WV SB724 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Allowing license plates, road signs, or markers be obtained from alternative sources
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-02-21 - Referred to Rules on 2nd reading [SB724 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2024-SB724-Introduced.html
WEST virginia legislature
2024 regular session
Introduced
Senate Bill 724
By Senator Clements
[Introduced February 8, 2024; referred
to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure]
A BILL to amend and reenact §15A-4-15 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to allowing license plates, road signs, or markers to be obtained from alternative sources when the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation is unable to produce an adequate supply.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 4. CORRECTIONS MANAGEMENT.
§15A-4-15. Manufacture of license plates, road signs or markers; securing signs and markers when federal government reimburses state for cost thereof.
For the purpose of obtaining license plates to be used upon motor vehicles licensed for operation in this state and road signs or markers of any description for state roads, the commissioner is hereby authorized and empowered on behalf of the state, to establish and operate a plant for the manufacture of the license plates and road signs or markers in his or her institution.
It shall be is unlawful for any state official or employee to manufacture or obtain the license plates, road signs, or markers otherwise than as herein specified: Provided, That the Commissioner of Highways may originally secure road signs or markers from sources other than that provided herein and the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles may secure license plates, road signs, or markers from alternative sources when necessary to maintain a reasonable supply when the division is unable to produce an adequate supply based on a shortage of resources, labor, or other circumstance beyond the control of the division.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to prevent a lack of availability of license plates and other signs due to a temporary inability of the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation to manufacture them.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
