Bill Text: WV HB5313 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: To require all stop lights in WV to be reprogrammed to add a 3 second pause between when one set of lights turns red and the opposite set of lights turns red

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-29 - To House Technology and Infrastructure [HB5313 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2024-HB5313-Introduced.html

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WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2024 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

House Bill 5313

By Delegates E. Pritt and Campbell

[Introduced January 29, 2024; Referred to the Committee on Technology and Infrastructure]

A BILL to amend and reenact §17C-3-2 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to requiring that a three-second pause be added to all traffic-control lights and devices.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

 

ARTICLE 3. traffic signs, signals and markings.

 

§17C-3-2. Placing and maintaining traffic-control devices and signs on state highways.

(a) The state road commission shall place and maintain such traffic-control devices, conforming to its manual and specifications, upon all state highways as it shall deem necessary to indicate and to carry out the provisions of this chapter or to regulate, warn, or guide traffic: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of this code to the contrary, the commission shall reprogram all traffic-control lights and devices to add a three-second pause from the time one set of lights turns red and the opposite set of lights turns green.

(b) No local authority shall place or maintain any traffic- control device upon any highway under the jurisdiction of the state road commission except by the latter's permission.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require that a three-second pause be added to all traffic-control lights and devices.

Strike-throughs language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.