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Senate Bill No. 285

(By Senators White and Barnes)

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[Introduced February 18, 2009; referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure; then to the Committee on Finance.]

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A BILL to amend and reenact §17A-2-7 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to requiring the Commissioner of the Division of Motor Vehicles to provide mobile unit(s) to remote counties of West Virginia to assist the citizens in those areas in obtaining their new or renewed driver's license.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §17A-2-7 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2. DIVISION OF MOTOR VEHICLES.
§17A-2-7. Commissioner of motor vehicles - Organization of division; assistants and employees.

The commissioner shall organize the department division in such manner as he or she may deem necessary to properly segregate and conduct the work of the department division. The commissioner shall employ such assistants and employees as may be necessary for the efficient operation of his or her department division, who shall possess all of the qualifications which may from time to time be prescribed for such positions by the commissioner. The duties and salaries of such assistants and employees shall be fixed by the commissioner, who shall have authority to remove any such assistant or employee at his or her will and pleasure. The total compensation paid to assistants and employees shall not exceed in any one year the appropriation made by the Legislature for that purpose.
The commissioner shall require every employee who collects fees or handles funds or who has custody of equipment and supplies belonging to the state to take the Constitutional oath and give an official bond, with corporate surety, properly conditioned and in a sum to be fixed by the commissioner, which bond shall be approved by him or her and filed in the office of the Secretary of State. The cost of such bond shall be borne by the department division as a part of the operating cost of the department division.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this article, the commissioner shall provide an adequate number of mobile units with all necessary equipment to issue a new driver's license or renew an existing driver's license, to be operated by two employees of the commissioner and to be provided to the remote counties of West Virginia to assist the citizens of each county at least two days a month who need a new or renewed driver's license.
The commissioner shall collect an additional $1 per year fee for every new or renewed driver's license to pay for the expenses incurred by the Division of Motor Vehicles in operating said mobile units. The commissioner shall pay the State Treasurer the total amount of this fee collected pursuant to section twenty-one of this article, with the expense of the administration of these mobile units appropriated for that purpose from the state road funds pursuant to section twenty-two of this article.




NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require the Commissioner of the Division of Motor Vehicles to provide mobile unit(s) to remote counties of West Virginia to assist the citizens in those areas in obtaining their new or renewed driver's license.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
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