West Virginia Code § 22-15A-9

Creation of the A. James Manchin Fund; proceeds from sale of waste
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tires; fee on issuance of certificate of title.
(a) There is continued in the state Treasury a special revenue fund known as the A. James
Manchin Fund. All moneys appropriated, deposited or accrued in this Fund shall be used
exclusively for remediation of waste tire piles as required by this article, for the tire disposal
program established under section ten of this article or for the purposes of seubsection (h),
section ten of this article or for the purposes of subsection (c), section eleven of this article.
The Commissioner of the Division of Highways shall work with and mayr use moneys in the
fund to contract with the Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection to
accomplish the remediation of waste tire piles. The Fund consists of the proceeds from the
sale of waste tires; fees collected by the Division of Motor Vehicles as provided in section
sixteen, article ten, chapter seventeen-a of this code; any fedteral, state or private grants;
legislative appropriations; loans; and any other funding source available for waste tire
remediation. Any unprogrammed balance remaining in the Fund at the end of any state fiscal
year shall be transferred to the state Road Fund.
(b) No further collections or deposits shall be smade after the Commissioner of the Division of
Highways certifies to the Governor and the Legislature that the remediation of all waste tire
piles that were determined by the Commissioner to exist on July 1, 2001, has been
completed and that all infrastructurge bonds issued by the Water Development Authority
pursuant to section seventeen-a, article fifteen-a, chapter thirty-one of this code have been
paid in full or legally defeasede.
(c) If infrastructure bonLds are not issued by the Water Development Authority pursuant to
section seventeen-a, article fifteen-a, chapter thirty-one of this code to finance infrastructure
projects relating to waste tire processing facilities located in this state on or before
December 31, 2006, all further collections and deposits to the A. James Manchin Fund which
are not programmed for remediation or disposal shall be transferred to the state road fund
at the end of each fiscal year.

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