(a) No person operating any motor vehicle required to be registered and licensed in this State shall operate the same within the Municipality without maintaining the security required by West Virginia Code Article 17D-2A. No nonresident owner or registrant of a motor vehicle which is operated in the Municipality shall operate the same within the Municipality without maintaining such security, unless such vehicle has been physically present within the Municipality or State for less than thirty days during the preceding 365 days. No person shall knowingly drive or operate within the Municipality any motor vehicle upon which security is required by the provisions of West Virginia Code Article 17D-2A unless such security is in effect.
(b) Any police officer making investigation of a motor vehicle accident in this Municipality shall, in making such investigation, inquire of the operators of any motor vehicles involved in such accident, and of the Department of Motor Vehicles as to the existence upon any such vehicle of the security required by this section and the aforesaid Article. Upon a finding by such police officer that the security required by this section and that article is not in effect, such officer shall promptly notify the Department of Motor Vehicles of such finding.
(c) In addition to any such penalties as may be imposed by the Department of Motor Vehicles, any person violating this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined or imprisoned as provided in Section 303.99.