ENROLLED
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
H. B. 2311
(By Delegates Boggs, Leach, Staton and Warner)
[Passed March 13, 1999; in effect ninety days from passage.]
AN ACT to amend article two, chapter seventeen-b of the code of
West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section
nine-a, relating to exempting certain railroad employees
from the duty to produce a driver's license while operating
a train and requiring that the crew members produce photo
identification issued by the railroad employer or other
state or federal authority.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article two, chapter seventeen-b of the code of West
Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be
amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section
nine-a, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2. ISSUANCE OF LICENSE, EXPIRATION AND RENEWAL.
§17B-2-9a. Exemptions of certain railroad workers.
Notwithstanding any provision of this code to the contrary,
in any circumstance involving an accident or alleged violation of
law in which the engineer or any other crew member of any train
is detained by any law-enforcement officer, the engineer and all
crew members shall not be required to furnish a driver's license
issued by the division of motor vehicles: Provided, That the
engineer and all crew members shall be required to produce photo
identification issued by the railroad employer or any other state
or federal authority other than the division of motor vehicles
upon request of any law-enforcement officer during the course of
investigating an accident or alleged violation of law involving
the operation of a train.