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Home » US Law » 2022 West Virginia Code » Chapter 24A. Commercial Motor Carriers » Article 7. Complaints, Damages and Violations

§24A-7-2. Falsifying Records, etc.

Any person, officer, agent or employee of any motor carrier subject to this chapter who will knowingly or wilfully make any false entries in the accounts, account books, records, or memoranda kept by any motor carrier, or who shall knowingly or wilfully destroy or mutilate any account book, record, or memorandum useful for the enforcement […]

§24A-7-3. Continuing Offenses

Every day during which any person shall fail to observe and comply with any order or direction of the commission or to perform any duty enjoined by this chapter shall constitute a separate and distinct violation of the order or direction under this chapter.

§24A-7-4. Penalty for Violation of Chapter; Concurrent Jurisdiction of Justices

Every officer, agent, employee, or stockholder of any motor carrier, or any motor carrier, and every person who violates, procures, aids, or abets in the violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, or who fails to obey any order, decision, requirement, rule, or regulation of the commission or procures, aids, or abets any […]

§24A-7-5. Second Offenses

When any person is convicted for a violation of any provision of this chapter or any order, decision, requirement, rule, or regulation of the commission and it is alleged in the indictment upon which he is convicted and it is admitted, or by jury found, that he has been before convicted of a violation of […]

§24A-7-6. Duty of Prosecuting Attorneys and Law-Enforcement Officers to Enforce Chapter; Regulatory Authority of Commission; Qualifications of Commission Employees Designated as Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officers

It shall be the duty of the West Virginia State Police and the sheriffs of the counties in West Virginia to make arrests and the duty of the prosecuting attorneys of the several counties to prosecute all violations of this chapter and of other chapters governing the regulatory authority of the commission. The commission employees […]

§24A-7-7. Authority of Motor Carrier Inspectors to Enforce All Traffic Rules as to Commercial Vehicles; Use of Radar as Evidence

(a) The employees of the commission designated as commercial vehicle enforcement officers have the same authority as law-enforcement officers generally to enforce the provisions of chapter seventeen-c of this code with respect to commercial motor vehicles owned or operated by motor carriers, exempt carriers or private commercial carriers where vehicles have a gross vehicle weight […]