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"Drug" has the same meaning as set forth in West Virginia Code 60A-1-101, the Uniform Controlled Substances Act, that when taken into the human body can impair the ability of a person to operate a vehicle safely and in compliance with traffic regulations and the laws of the road.
(W. Va. Code § 17C-1-67; Ord. 2240. Passed 3-2-17.)
(a) For the purpose of this section, the term “electric bicycle” means a two or three wheeled vehicle with fully operable pedals and an electric motor of fewer than 750 watts. There is a “three-class system” to differentiate between the models and top-assisted speeds of electric bicycles.
(1) “Class 1" electric bicycles have a motor that provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling, and that ceases to provide assistance when the e-bike reaches 20 mph.
(2) “Class 2" electric bicycles have a motor that may be used exclusively to propel the bicycle, and that is not capable of providing assistance when the e-bike reaches 20 mph.
(3) “Class 3" electric bicycles have a motor that provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling, and that ceases to provide assistance when the e-bike reaches 28 mph.
(b) “Throttle” refers to a device that controls the flow of power to the electric motor on an electric bicycle for the purpose of propelling the electric bicycle.
(WVaC 17C-1-70; Ord. 2350. Passed 1-4-24.)
“Electric personal assistive mobility device” or “EPAMD” means a self-balancing, two nontandem-wheeled device, designed to transport only one person, with an electric propulsion system with average power of seven hundred fifty watts (one horse power), whose maximum speed on a paved level surface, when powered solely by such a propulsion system while ridden by an operator who weighs one hundred seventy pounds, is less than twenty miles per hour.
(W. Va. Code § 17C-1-66; Ord. 2240. Passed 3-2-17.)
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