H. B. 4487
(By Delegates Kessler, (By Request) and Burdiss,
Gall, Hamilton, Rodighiero, Eldridge, Ellis and Stephens)
[Introduced February 11, 2008; referred to the
Committee on Roads and Transportation then the
Judiciary.]
A BILL to amend §17C-4-9 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as
amended, relating to accident reports no longer including a
driver's or involved individual's social security number.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §17C-4-9 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 4. ACCIDENTS.
§17C-4-9. Accident report forms.
(a) The division shall prepare and upon request supply to
police departments, coroners, sheriffs, Division of Natural
Resources, and other suitable agencies or individuals, forms for
accident reports required hereunder, appropriate with respect to
the persons required to make such reports and the purposes to be
served. The written reports to be made by investigating officers
shall call for sufficiently detailed information to disclose with reference to a traffic accident the cause, conditions then
existing, and the persons and vehicles involved:
Provided, That
the written reports shall not include the social security number of
any person involved in a traffic accident.
(b) Every accident report required to be made in writing shall
be made on the appropriate form approved by the division and shall
contain all of the information required therein unless not
available.
(c) Every
such report shall also contain information
sufficient to enable the commissioner to determine whether the
requirements for security upon motor vehicles is in effect in
accordance with chapter seventeen-d of this code.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to exclude a driver's or
involved person's social security number from motor vehicle
accident reports.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.