ENROLLED

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE

FOR

H. B. 2814

(By Delegates Butcher, Wright,

Hrutkay, Ferrell and Warner)




[Passed March 8, 2003; in effect ninety days from passage.]


AN ACT to amend and reenact section six, article nine, chapter seventeen-c of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to moving traffic regulations generally and increasing the penalty for failure of a driver to yield the right-of-way.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section six, article nine, chapter seventeen-c of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 9. RIGHT-OF-WAY.

§17C-9-6. Misdemeanor to violate provisions of article; penalty.
Any person violating the provisions of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars; upon a second conviction within one year thereafter, shall be fined not more than three hundred dollars; and upon a third or subsequent conviction, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars.