The purpose of this article is to promote the public welfare by requiring every owner or registrant of a motor vehicle licensed in this state or operated in this state to maintain certain security during the registration period for the vehicle and to provide the means for the Division of Motor Vehicles, law enforcement and the judicial branch to electronically verify evidence of current insurance coverage at any time while a vehicle has a current registration or is operated on the roads and highways.
W. Va. Code § 17D-2A-1
Purpose of article
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 173 W. Va. 129 - Vanmeter v. W. Va. Dept. of Motor Vehicles (1984)
Most recently applied in 223 W. Va. 486 - Boniey v. Kuchinski (May 2009)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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