Senate Bill No. 670
(By Senator Bailey)
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[Introduced February 22, 1999; referred to the Committee on the
Judiciary; and then to the Committee on Finance.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact section twelve, article two, chapter
seventeen-a of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine
hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to requiring the
commissioner of motor vehicles, for all persons under
twenty-one years of age, to place the date of that person's
twenty-first birthday in red ink on the driver's license
issued by the division of motor vehicles.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section twelve, 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-2-12. Commissioner of motor vehicles -- Commissioner to
prescribe forms.
The commissioner shall prescribe and provide suitable forms
of applications, certificates of title, registration cards,
operators' and chauffeurs' licenses, and all other forms
requisite or deemed necessary to carry out the provisions of this
chapter and any other laws, the enforcement and administration of
which are vested in the department: Provided, That for all
persons under the age of twenty-one, that person's twenty-first
birthday shall be printed in red ink on any driver's license
issued by the department of motor vehicles.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require that all
drivers' licenses issued in this state shall state in red ink the
licensees twenty-first birthday for all persons under twenty-one
years of age.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken
from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language
that would be added.