When a certificate of incorporation is hereafter obtained for the erection of a toll bridge, if the work be not commenced within one year from the date thereof, or be not completed within five years after such commencement, or if, after its completion, there be an abandonment of the bridge, or a failure for three successive years to keep it in good order, in each of these cases the privilege granted by such certificate shall cease. There may be charged and collected on persons and things passing over any such bridge such reasonable tolls as the corporation may, by resolution, from time to time prescribe, subject, however, at all times to the control of the Public Service Commission.
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