ENROLLED
Senate Bill No. 225
(By Senators Ross, Sharpe, Anderson and Ball)
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[Passed March 9, 1999; in effect ninety days from passage.]
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AN ACT to amend and reenact section ten, article two, chapter
seventeen-a of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine
hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to authorizing the
commissioner of motor vehicles to enter into reciprocal
driver's license agreements with other nations.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section ten, article two, chapter seventeen-a of the
code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2. DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES.
§17A-2-10. Motor vehicles commissioner -- Reciprocal agreements
with other states.
The motor vehicle commissioner in cooperation with the state
auditor, state road commissioner, the public service commission and the department of public safety superintendent of state police as appropriate may enter
into such reciprocal agreements as he may deem proper or expedient
with the proper authorities of other states, jurisdictions or
nations, regulating the licensing of drivers and the use, on the
roads and highways of this state, of trucks, automobiles and any
other vehicles owned and duly licensed in such other states,
jurisdictions or nations. and duly licensed under the laws
thereof The commissioner may confer and
advise with the proper officers and legislative bodies of this
and other states and federal districts of the United States, to
promote enter into
reciprocal agreements under which the registration of vehicles
owned in this state, and the licenses of operators and chauffeurs drivers residing in this
state shall be recognized by other states, jurisdictions and
federal districts or other
nations.