When it is necessary to build or repair a toll bridge on any county-district road, or to purchase any existing toll bridge on such road within any county, or across the boundary thereof, the county court of the county may contract for the same, or any part thereof, on such terms as may be agreed upon, and take bond and security from the contractors in the sum of fifty percent of the amount of such contract, and pay for the same out of the county road fund or out of the road funds of the district or districts in which such improvement is located, or by issuing bonds for the amount that may be agreed upon; and to this end the court shall appoint a competent engineer to make a thorough investigation and estimate of the cost of such improvement. Upon receiving the estimate of cost, the court, if satisfied with the correctness of same and the necessity and importance of such improvement, may advertise for and receive proposals and make such other orders in the premises from time to time as shall be necessary and proper.
Structure West Virginia Code
Chapter 17. Roads and Highways
§17-17-1. Tolls Prohibited Except Over Toll Bridges Forming Part of Public Road, etc.
§17-17-2. Bridges Over Ohio, Great Kanawha or Big Sandy Rivers; Corporations for Such Purposes
§17-17-3. Power of Bridge Corporation to Borrow Money, Mortgage or Encumber by Deed of Trust
§17-17-4. When Bridge Deemed a Nuisance; Abatement
§17-17-5. Obstruction of Navigation by Bridge
§17-17-7. Purchase, Construction or Repair of Toll Bridge
§17-17-8. Termination of Privilege to Erect and Maintain Toll Bridge; Toll Rates
§17-17-9. Toll Rates for Troops
§17-17-10. Payment of Toll Prior to Passage; Demand of Excessive Toll; Evading Payment of Toll
§17-17-11. Gatekeeper to Keep Small Change
§17-17-12. Failure to Provide Gatekeeper and to Allow Prompt Passage
§17-17-15. Authority to Purchase or Condemn Toll Bridges; Eminent Domain
§17-17-16. Repair of Toll Bridge Before Purchase
§17-17-17. Construction of Toll Bridge; Purchase of Land, etc., Therefor
§17-17-18. Power of Eminent Domain
§17-17-19. Bridge Revenue Bonds Generally
§17-17-20. Trust Agreement Respecting Bonds
§17-17-21. General Supervision of Bridges Under Jurisdiction of Commissioner
§17-17-23. When Tolls to Cease
§17-17-23a. Transfer of Excess Tolls Collected
§17-17-24. Construction of Article in Relation to State Debt
§17-17-25. Additional and Alternative Method Provided; Permit for Construction of Competitive Bridge
§17-17-26. When Consent of Other Officers and Boards Not Required
§17-17-27. Liberal Construction of §§17-17-13 to 17-17-28
§17-17-28. Provisions of §§17-17-13 to 17-17-28 Separable
§17-17-29. Certain Powers, Duties, etc., of Bridge Commission Transferred to State Road Commissioner
§17-17-31. Same -- Acquisition of Existing Bridges
§17-17-32. Same -- General Powers of Cities and Counties; Bonds Generally; Exemptions From Taxation
§17-17-33. Same -- Creation of Mortgage Lien
§17-17-34. Same -- Retiring Bonds; Remittance to Sinking Fund