Senate Bill No. 714
(By Senator Sprouse)
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[Introduced February 20, 2006; referred to the Committee
on Transportation and Infrastructure; and then to the Committee
on the Judiciary.]
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A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by
adding thereto a new section, designated
§17C-2-8a
, relating
to preventing municipal police officers from issuing traffic
violations on an interstate highway unless the municipality
has at least five miles of interstate highway running through
its limits.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended
by adding thereto a new section, designated
§17C-2-8a
, to read as
follows:
ARTICLE 2. OBEDIENCE TO AND EFFECT OF TRAFFIC LAWS.
§17C-2-8a. Municipal police officers not authorized to issue
traffic violations on interstate highways unless
the municipality has at least five miles of interstate highway.
(a) No municipal police officer may issue a traffic violation
on an interstate highway unless the municipality has at least five
miles of interstate highway running through its limits.
(b)"Interstate highway" means any road or highway that is part
of the federal interstate highway system.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to prevent municipal police
from issuing traffic violations on an interstate highway unless the
municipality has at least five miles of the interstate running
through the municipalities limits.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.