House 2655

WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2025 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

House Bill 2655

By Delegates Pritt and Moore

[Introduced February 20, 2025; referred to the Committee on Energy and Public Works]

A BILL to amend and reenact §17C-3-2 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to requiring that a three-second pause be added to all traffic-control lights and devices.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 3. traffic signs, signals and markings.

§17C-3-2. Placing and maintaining traffic-control devices and signs on state highways.

(a) The state road commission shall place and maintain such traffic-control devices, conforming to its manual and specifications, upon all state highways as it shall deem necessary to indicate and to carry out the provisions of this chapter or to regulate, warn, or guide traffic: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of this code to the contrary, the commission shall reprogram all traffic-control lights and devices to add a three-second pause from the time one set of lights turns red and the opposite set of lights turns green.

(b) No local authority shall place or maintain any traffic- control device upon any highway under the jurisdiction of the state road commission except by the latter's permission.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require that a three-second pause be added to all traffic-control lights and devices.

Strike-throughs language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.