Bill Text: WV HB5549 | 2024 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to allowing license plates to be obtained from alternative sources when the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation is unable to produce them
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-04-22 - Chapter 61, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 [HB5549 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2024-HB5549-Enrolled.html
WEST virginia legislature
2024 regular session
ENROLLED
House Bill 5549
By Delegate Linville
[Passed March 4, 2024; in effect ninety days from passage.]
AN ACT to amend and reenact §15A-4-15 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to allowing license plates, road signs, and markers to be obtained from sources other than the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 4. CORRECTIONS MANAGEMENT.
§15A-4-15. Manufacture of license plates, road signs or markers.
(a) The commissioner is hereby authorized and empowered to establish and operate a plant in his or her institution for the manufacture of road signs and markers of any description for state roads and of license plates.
(b) The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall secure all license plates from the division: Provided, That the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles may secure license plates from alternative sources if the division is unable to provide a six-month supply of license plates due to a shortage of resources, labor, or other circumstance beyond the control of the division.
(c) The Commissioner of Highways may obtain road signs and markers of any description for state roads from the division.
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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Governor
