Bill Text: WV HB5019 | 2024 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to surrender and return of license not required for disqualifying or downgrading a driver’s license

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-04-22 - Chapter 188, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 [HB5019 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2024-HB5019-Enrolled.html

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WEST virginia legislature

2024 regular session

ENROLLED

House Bill 5019

By Delegate Linville

(By Request of the Division of Motor Vehicles)

[Passed February 15, 2024; in effect ninety days from passage.]

 

AN ACT to amend and reenact §17B-3-9 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to surrender and return of license not required for disqualifying or downgrading a driver's license.  

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

 

ARTICLE 3. CANCELLATION, SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION OF LICENSES.

§17B-3-9. Surrender and return of license not required.

The Division, upon disqualifying, downgrading, suspending or revoking a license, may not require that the license be surrendered to and be retained by the Division. The surrender of a license may not be a precondition to the commencement and tolling of any applicable period of suspension or revocation: Provided, That before the license may be reinstated, the licensee shall pay a fee of $50, in addition to all other fees and charges, which shall be collected by the Division and deposited in a special revolving fund to be appropriated to the Division for use in the enforcement of the provisions of this section.

 

The Clerk of the House of Delegates and the Clerk of the Senate hereby certify that the foregoing bill is correctly enrolled.

 

 

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Clerk of the House of Delegates

 

 

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Clerk of the Senate

               

 

 

Originated in the House of Delegates.

 

In effect ninety days from passage.

 

 

 

 

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Speaker of the House of Delegates

 

 

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President of the Senate

 

 

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The within is ................................................ this the...........................................

 

Day of ..........................................................................................................., 2024.

 

 

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Governor