HB 4674 Text

H. B. 4674

(By Delegate McGraw)
[Introduced February 27, 1998; referred to the
Committee on Roads and Transportation.]

A BILL to amend and reenact section fourteen, article two, chapter seventeen-b of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to the division of motor vehicles keeping records of license suspensions and revocations for two years only.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section fourteen, article two, chapter seventeen-b of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

ARTICLE 2. ISSUANCE OF LICENSE, EXPIRATION AND RENEWAL.

§17B-2-14. Records and indexes to be kept by the division.

The division shall file every application for a license received by it and shall maintain suitable indexes containing, in alphabetical order:
(1) All applications denied and on each a notation of the reasons for such denial;
(2) All applications granted; and
(3) The name of every licensee whose license has been suspended or revoked by the division and after each such name a notation of the reasons for such action.
The division shall also file all abstracts of court records of convictions received by it under the laws of this state and in connection therewith maintain convenient records or make suitable notations in order that an individual record of each licensee showing the convictions of such licensee shall be readily ascertainable and available for the consideration of the division upon any application for renewal of license and at other suitable times.
Any record or index kept by the division pursuant to this section shall be purged after two years.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to limit to two years the time in which the department of motor vehicles keeps records of license suspensions and revocations.

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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