§17-17-10. Payment of Toll Prior to Passage; Demand of Excessive Toll; Evading Payment of Toll
The proprietor of any toll bridge may require lawful toll to be paid previous to a passage thereover. Whoever shall knowingly or intentionally defraud, or attempt to defraud, the proprietor of any toll bridge by evading, or attempting to evade, the payment of lawful toll for crossing such bridge, or whoever shall aid another to […]
§17-17-11. Gatekeeper to Keep Small Change
A gatekeeper on any toll bridge without an electronic toll collection system, as defined in 17-16D-2 of this code, shall keep such money of small denomination on hand, as may reasonably be required in the ordinary course of business, for making change for passengers, and it is the duty of passengers to offer money for […]
§17-17-12. Failure to Provide Gatekeeper and to Allow Prompt Passage
If at any toll bridge without an electronic toll collection system there be a failure to give any person or property a passage over the same in a reasonable time, the proprietor thereof shall forfeit to such person not less than $2 nor more than $20. If the keeper of any toll bridge without an […]
§17-17-13. Definitions
As used in this and the following sections of this article, the word "bridge" shall be deemed to include all property, rights and franchises relating thereto, including approaches; the word "improvements" shall mean such repairs, replacements, additions and betterments of and to a bridge acquired by purchase as are deemed necessary to place it in […]
§17-17-15. Authority to Purchase or Condemn Toll Bridges; Eminent Domain
The state road commissioner may, with the approval of the Governor, whenever he shall deem it expedient, purchase or condemn any toll bridge or bridges over and across any navigable river lying wholly or partly within the state, or forming a boundary of the state, or any such toll bridge or bridges wholly or partly […]
§17-17-1. Tolls Prohibited Except Over Toll Bridges Forming Part of Public Road, etc.
No tolls shall be charged or collected for travel upon any of the public roads, streets, or highways of this state, except such tolls as may be authorized under the provisions of this article for travel over a toll bridge forming a part of such public road, street or highway.
§17-17-2. Bridges Over Ohio, Great Kanawha or Big Sandy Rivers; Corporations for Such Purposes
Corporations may be formed under the provisions of chapter thirty-one of this code for the purpose of bridging the Ohio River. Any such corporation or any railroad corporation is hereby authorized to construct and maintain a bridge across said river in the manner now, or which may hereafter be, provided by the Congress of the […]
§17-17-3. Power of Bridge Corporation to Borrow Money, Mortgage or Encumber by Deed of Trust
Every corporation formed under the law of this state for the purpose of the construction and maintenance of a bridge or bridges, in addition to the powers heretofore conferred upon or possessed by it, shall have power from time to time to borrow such sums of money as may be necessary for the purposes and […]
§17-17-4. When Bridge Deemed a Nuisance; Abatement
Every bridge across the Ohio River hereafter erected or commenced, wholly or in part within the jurisdiction of this state, contrary to the provisions of the two next preceding sections, and every railroad bridge across the Great Kanawha or Big Sandy River hereafter erected or commenced, wholly or in part within the jurisdiction of the […]