Code of West Virginia, 1931

Code	Chapter	Article	Section Heading	Section Text Preview	Status
16-11-1	Ch. 16 — PUBLIC HEALTH	State Water Commission	Definitions	Terms used in this article are defined as follows: “Commission” shall mean the state water commission; “commissioner” shall mean a member of said commission; “w…	Proofed
16-11-2	Ch. 16 — PUBLIC HEALTH	State Water Commission	Members of Commission; Aid by Division of Sanitary Engineering and College of Engineering; Expenses	There shall be a state water commission composed of the commissioner of health, the chairman of the public service commission and the chairman of the game, fish…	Proofed
16-11-3	Ch. 16 — PUBLIC HEALTH	State Water Commission	Organization; Employees; Expenditures; Records; Meetings	Said commission shall elect from its membership a chairman, and also elect a secretary, who need not be a member. The commission may employ such stenographic, c…	Proofed
16-11-4	Ch. 16 — PUBLIC HEALTH	State Water Commission	Entering Premises	Any commissioner or any assistant or employee of said commission may, at any reasonable time, enter any premises while engaged in the performance of duty under …	Proofed
16-11-5	Ch. 16 — PUBLIC HEALTH	State Water Commission	Citations for Pollution; Procedure	Any person, causing the pollution of any water, or alleged to be causing the pollution of any water, may be cited by the commission on its own motion, and shall…	Proofed
16-11-6	Ch. 16 — PUBLIC HEALTH	State Water Commission	Orders Controlling and Eliminating Pollution; Enforcement	If upon hearing, the commission shall find that any person is polluting any of the waters of the State, it shall make and enter an order directing such person t…	Proofed
16-11-7	Ch. 16 — PUBLIC HEALTH	State Water Commission	Review of Commission’s Orders; Prosecuting Attorney and Attorney General to Represent Commission	Such circuit court of the county shall have jurisdiction, by certiorari, to review any order of said commission upon the application of any person or intervener…	Proofed
16-11-8	Ch. 16 — PUBLIC HEALTH	State Water Commission	Investigations and Reports Regarding Pollution; Aid from other Agencies	The commission shall study questions arising in connection with pollution of waters in the State and make reports and recommendations in respect thereto; and, i…	Proofed
16-11-9	Ch. 16 — PUBLIC HEALTH	State Water Commission	Sections of Code Not Repealed or Modified	Nothing in this article contained shall be so interpreted or construed as to in any way repeal, supersede or modify section six, article six, chapter twenty of …	Proofed
17-1-1	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	Definitions	In General	Whenever in this chapter, or in any rule or regulation authorized by it, any of the words, terms or phrases defined in this article are used, they shall be take…	Proofed
17-1-2	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	Definitions	Commission; Road Commission; State Road Commission	The words and terms “commission, ” “road commission,’’ or “state road commission,” shall refer to and mean “The State Road Commission of West Virginia.”	Proofed
17-1-3	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	Definitions	Road; Public Road; Highway	The words or terms “road,” “public road,” or “highway,” shall be deemed to include the right of way, roadbed and all necessary culverts, sluices, drains, ditche…	Proofed
17-1-4	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	Definitions	Vehicle	“Vehicle” shall mean and include any mechanical device for the conveyance, drawing or other transportation of persons or property upon the public roads and high…	Proofed
17-1-5	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	Definitions	Truck	“Truck” shall mean and include any motor vehicle designed and used for carrying freight, or any regularly constructed passenger automobile regularly carrying fr…	Proofed
17-1-6	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	Definitions	Motor Vehicle	“Motor vehicle” shall mean and include any self-propelled vehicle not operated exclusively upon stationary tracks, except tractors.	Proofed
17-1-7	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	Definitions	Tractor	“Tractor” shall mean and include any self-propelled vehicle designed or used as a traveling power plant or for drawing, other vehicles, but having no provisions…	Proofed
17-1-8	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	Definitions	Trailer	“Trailer” shall mean and include any vehicle without motive power designed for carrying property or passengers, wholly on its own structure, and for being drawn…	Proofed
17-1-9	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	Definitions	Semi-Trailer	“Semi-trailer” shall mean and include a vehicle of a trailer type so designed and used in conjunction with a self-propelled vehicle that a considerable part of …	Proofed
17-1-10	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	Definitions	Pneumatic Tires	“Pneumatic tires” shall mean and include tires of rubber or other material inflated with air, and depending solely upon confined air for the support of the load…	Proofed
17-1-11	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	Definitions	Solid Tires	“Solid tires” shall mean and include tires of rubber or similar elastic material that do not depend upon confined air for the support of the load, except cushio…	Proofed
17-1-12	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	Definitions	Solid Tired Vehicle	“Solid tired vehicle” shall mean and include any vehicle equipped with two or more solid tires.	Proofed
17-1-13	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	Definitions	Manufacturer	“Manufacturer” shall mean and include any person, firm or corporation actively engaged in the manufacture of motor vehicles who has an established place of busi…	Proofed
17-1-14	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	Definitions	Dealer	“Dealer” shall mean and include any person, firm or corporation actively engaged in the sale, purchase or exchange of motor vehicles who for such purpose has an…	Proofed
17-1-15	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	Definitions	Owner	“Owner” shall mean and include any person, firm, corporation or association holding title to a vehicle.	Proofed
17-1-16	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	Definitions	Operator	“Operator” shall mean and include any person who drives or operates a motor vehicle or tractor, except for the transportation of persons or property, or both, f…	Proofed
17-1-17	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	Definitions	Chauffeur	“Chauffeur” shall mean and include any person who operates for hire, who receives pay directly or indirectly to operate, any motor vehicle or tractor, or who op…	Proofed
17-1-18	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	Definitions	State	“State” shall mean the State of West Virginia, unless by the context some other state or territory or federal district of the United States is meant or intended…	Proofed
17-1-19	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	Definitions	Political Subdivision	“Political subdivision” shall mean and include any county, city, town, or other similar governmental unit of the State.	Proofed
17-1-20	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	Definitions	Local Authorities	“Local authorities” shall mean and include representatives of political subdivisions of the State, duly elected or appointed to administer the laws and ordinanc…	Proofed
17-1-21	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	Definitions	Open Country Highway	“Open country highway” shall mean a highway, or portion thereof, greater than one-fourth of a mile in length, along either side of which the buildings average m…	Proofed
17-1-22	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	Definitions	Urban Street	“Urban street” shall mean a public street, road or highway, or portion thereof, other than an open country highway or suburban street.	Proofed
17-1-23	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	Definitions	Suburban Street	A “suburban street” shall mean a public street, road or highway, or portion thereof, not less than one-fourth of a mile in length, on either side of which the b…	Proofed
17-1-24	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	Definitions	Stand	“Stand” shall mean a fixed place of business in charge of a person and maintained by a person, firm or corporation operating motor vehicles for hire, where moto…	Proofed
17-1-25	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	Definitions	Secondhand Car	“Secondhand car” shall mean a motor vehicle which has been sold, bargained, exchanged, given away or title transferred from the person who first took title to i…	Proofed
17-2-1	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	State Road Commission	Appointment of Commission; Term of Office; Oath; Bond; Salary	There shall be a commission known as “The State Road Commission of West Virginia,” which shall be a corporation, and, as such, may sue and be sued, contract and…	Proofed
17-2-2	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	State Road Commission	Qualifications of Commissioners, Appointees and Employees	No person while in the employ of, or holding any official relation to, any person, firm or corporation selling or furnishing any materials entering into the con…	Proofed
17-2-3	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	State Road Commission	Organization; Assistants and Employees Agreement With County Court for Their Services	The commission shall make necessary rules and regulations for its own government, appoint a secretary, and may from time to time appoint and employ such other a…	Proofed
17-2-4	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	State Road Commission	Offices of Commission; Reports	Th state road commission shall be provided by the State with suitable office rooms in the City of Charleston, and its offices shall be open at all reasonable ti…	Proofed
17-2-5	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	State Road Commission	Attorney General and Prosecuting Attorneys to Act as Counsel	It shall be the duty of the attorney general of this State and of his assistants, and of the prosecuting attorneys of the several counties, to render to the com…	Proofed
17-2-6	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	State Road Commission	Aid to Commission by University; Schools of Good Roads; National Conferences	At the request of the state road commission it shall be the duty of the dean of the college of engineering of West Virginia university, the director of the expe…	Proofed
17-2-7	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	State Road Commission	Duties of Commission as to Road Plan Statistics, Standards, Information and Aid; Copies of Public Records at Richmond	The commission shall cause to be made and kept for its department a general road or highway plan of the State, and shall compile, publish and disseminate statis…	Proofed
17-2-8	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	State Road Commission	Administration of Vehicle Laws; Records; Accounting; Commissioners May Administer Oaths	The commission shall have charge of the administration of the vehicle laws of this State, including the collection of all license fees and charges, forfeitures,…	Proofed
17-2-9	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	State Road Commission	Interstate Agreements as to Vehicles	The state road commission is authorized and empowered to enter into such reciprocal contracts and agreements as it may deem proper or expedient with the proper …	Proofed
17-2-10	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	State Road Commission	Authority of Commission and Employees to Enforce Road Law; Bond of Special Officer	The state road commission, and such of its employees and servants as are designated by it as special officers for that purpose, shall have authority to enforce …	Proofed
17-2-11	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	State Road Commission	Sale of Surplus Equipment	The commission may, at either public or private sale, as may seem to it most advantageous, dispose of any equipment purchased by it, when such equipment can no …	Proofed
17-2-12	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	State Road Commission	Hearings and Proceedings Before Commission; Immunity of Witnesses	In all hearings and proceedings before the road commission, the evidence of witnesses and the production of documentary evidence may be required at any designat…	Proofed
17-2-13	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	State Road Commission	Statements and Estimates of Expenditures of Road Commission in Counties	At the end of every fiscal year, and before the respective county courts are required by law to lay their levies for the ensuing year, the commission shall prep…	Proofed
17-2-14	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	State Road Commission	Additional General Powers of Commission	In addition to the powers of the state road commission specifically conferred by any article of this chapter, it shall possess such other powers as may be neces…	Proofed
17-3-1	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	State Road Fund	State Road Fund	There shall be a state road fund, which shall consist of the proceeds of all state license taxes imposed upon automobiles or other motor or steam driven vehicle…	Proofed
17-3-2	Ch. 17 — ROADS AND HIGHWAYS	State Road Fund	Cost of Construction, Reconstruction, Improvement and Maintenance of State Roads	The cost and expense of the construction, reconstruction, improvement or maintenance of all state roads shall be paid out of any moneys received by or appropria…	Proofed