(a) Operation without Certificate or Failure to Produce Certificate; Specific Penalty. It is a misdemeanor for any owner or operator, or both owner and operator, of any vehicle required to be inspected under West Virginia Code Article 17C-16 to operate or permit to be operated such vehicle without having displayed thereon a current and valid certificate of inspection and approval or fail to produce same upon demand or any authorized person as therein designated.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code, every person convicted of a misdemeanor for operating a vehicle without having displayed thereon a current and valid certificate of inspection and approval or for failure to produce such certificate upon demand or an authorized person shall be punished by fine of not more than one hundred dollars; provided, that any person who obtains an inspection and a current and valid certificate of inspection and who, within five (5) days of this issuance of a citation for a violation of the provisions of this section, provides a receipt of inspection to and makes the vehicle so operated available for examination by a court of competent jurisdiction, shall not be guilty of a violation of the provisions of this section; provided, however, that the misdemeanor penalty shall be imposed if the certificate of inspection has not been valid for a period exceeding three months prior to the date of issuance of the citation.
(b) False Certificates.
(1) No person shall make, issue or knowingly use any imitation or counterfeit of an official certificate of inspection.
(2) No person shall display or cause or permit to be displayed upon a vehicle any certificate of inspection and approval knowing the same to be fictitious or issued for another vehicle or issued without an inspection having been made.
(Ord. 1233. Passed 7-8-03.)
(Ord. 1233. Passed 7-8-03.)