COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 580
(By Senators Plymale and Love)
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[Originating in the Committee on the Judiciary;
reported February 21, 2008.]
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A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by
adding thereto a new section, designated §50-5-14a, relating
to authorizing magistrate courts to accept unsigned copies of
citations with payments for same.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended
and reenacted by adding thereto a new section, designated
§50-5-14a, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 5. TRIALS, HEARINGS AND APPEALS.
§50-5-14a. Disposition without court appearance.
Tender of payment by a person charged by citation of the
assessed fine and costs shall constitute a plea of no contest to
such citation and signing of the citation by the person charged
shall not be required for entry of a judgment of conviction.
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(NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize magistrate
courts to accept payments when persons mail or deliver such
payments to the court to pay citations.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.)