ENROLLED
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 580
(Senators Plymale and Love, original sponsors)
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[Passed March 4, 2008; in effect ninety days from passage.]
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AN ACT to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by
adding thereto a new section, designated §50-5-14a, relating
to authorizing magistrate courts to accept unsigned copies of
citations with payments for same.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended
and reenacted by adding thereto a new section, designated
§50-5-14a, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 5. TRIALS, HEARINGS AND APPEALS.
§50-5-14a. Disposition without court appearance.
Tender of payment by a person charged by citation of the
assessed fine and costs shall constitute a plea of no contest to
such citation and signing of the citation by the person charged
shall not be required for entry of a judgment of conviction.