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No local authority or person shall place, maintain, or display upon or in view of any street or highway any unauthorized traffic control device or traffic control signal, or any unauthorized sign, signal, marking, or device which purports to be or is an imitation of or resembles an official traffic control device or railroad sign or signal, or which attempts to direct the movement of traffic or which hides from view or interferes with the effectiveness of any official traffic control device or any railroad sign or signal, and no person shall place or maintain nor shall any public authority permit upon any street or highway any traffic control device bearing thereon any commercial advertising. This shall not be deemed to prohibit the erection upon private property adjacent to a street or highway of signs giving useful directional information and of a type that cannot be mistaken for official signs. Every such prohibited device, signal, sign, or marking is hereby declared to be a public nuisance and the Commissioner of Highways or other authority having jurisdiction over the street or highway is hereby empowered to remove the same or cause it to be removed without notice.
(Ord. passed 5-11-2021) Penalty, see § 70.999
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see W. Va. Code 17C-3-8
No person shall without lawful authority attempt to or in fact alter, deface, injure, knock down, or remove any official traffic control device or any railroad sign or signal or any inscription, shield, or insignia thereon, or any other part thereof.
(Ord. passed 5-11-2021) Penalty, see § 70.999
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see W. Va. Code 17C-3-9
(A) At each and every location where street or highway construction work is to be conducted a sign shall be posted at least 1,000 feet from the construction site, or as close to 1,000 feet from the construction site as is practicable given the location of the site when workers are present, notifying all motorists as to the speed limit and displaying the words “construction work”.
(B) No person shall violate any posted speed restriction or traffic restriction at such construction site referred to in division (A) above.
(C) Nothing in this section shall be construed to preclude prosecution of any operator of a motor vehicle who commits a violation of any other provision of this title for such violation.
(Ord. passed 5-11-2021) Penalty, see § 70.999
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see W. Va. Code 17C-3-4B
CRASHES
(A) The driver of a vehicle involved in an accident resulting in bodily injury to, or the death of, any person, or total property damage to an apparent extent of one-thousand dollars or more shall immediately, by the quickest means of communication, whether oral or written, give notice of such accident to the Police Department, or otherwise to the County Sheriff or nearest office of the State Police.
(B) Any person who violates W. Va. Code 17C-4-1 shall be subject to penalties consistent with those found in W. Va. 17C-4-1.
(C) For the purposes of this subchapter, the definitions found in W. Va. Code 17C-4-1(e) shall be applicable unless the term(s) are otherwise defined in this chapter.
(Ord. passed 5-11-2021) Penalty, see § 70.999
Whenever the driver of a vehicle is physically incapable of making an immediate report of an accident as required in § 70.040 and there was another occupant in the vehicle at the time of the accident capable of making a report, such occupant shall make or cause to be made such report not made by the driver.
(Ord. passed 5-11-2021)
The person in charge of any garage or repair shop to which is brought any motor vehicle which shows evidence of having been struck by any bullet shall report to the Police Department within 24 hours after such motor vehicle is received, giving the engine number, registration number, and the name and address of the owner or operator of such vehicle.
(Ord. passed 5-11-2021) Penalty, see § 70.999
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see W. Va. Code 17C-4-12
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