(a) The driver of a vehicle, upon meeting or overtaking from either direction any school bus which has stopped for the purpose of receiving or discharging any school children, shall stop the vehicle before reaching the school bus when there is in operation on the school bus flashing warning signal lights, as referred to in West Virginia Code 17C-12-8, and the driver shall not proceed until the school bus resumes motion, or is signaled by the school bus driver to proceed or the visual signals are no longer actuated. This section applies wherever the school bus is receiving or discharging children including, but not limited to, any street, highway, parking lot, private road or driveway.
(b) Any driver acting in violation of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the County Jail not more than thirty days, or both fined and imprisoned. If the identity of the driver cannot be ascertained, then any owner or lessee of the vehicle in violation of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars.
(Ord. 2007-12. Passed 9-17-07.)