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I recently got 3 charges of no insurance in West Virginia in a month what will happen?

You should contact the court(s) listed on your citations to find out what penalties you will be facing, especially since you were ticketed 3 times in one month. The courts will probably take it quite seriously that you were cited and then continued to drive without insurance.

West Virginia Code Chapter 17D deals with the WV Motor Vehicle Responsibility Laws. Section 17D-2A-7 states under subsection (a) that any owner of a motor vehicle who fails to have the required security in effect at the time such vehicle is being operated upon the roads or highways of this state shall have his or her driver's license suspended by the Commissioner of the Division of Motor Vehicles for a period of thirty days and shall have his or her motor vehicle registration revoked until such time as he or she shall present to the Division of Motor Vehicles the proof of security required by WV laws.

Subsection (g) notes that if the commissioner has previously suspended the person's driver's license for any reason related to failure to maintain insurance on a motor vehicle within the previous five years, the period of suspension shall be for a period of ninety days.

So at the very least it would appear you will get a 90 driver's license suspension and revocation of your registration until you have proof of security. There are other criminal penalties for being an uninsured motorist plus if your license was already suspended by the WV DMV from your first citation for driving without insurance then you may also be found guilty by the court of driving with a suspended license.

Section 17D-2A-9 of the WV Code gives the criminal penalty for driving without insurance. Here it states that in addition to any administrative penalty provided for violation of any provision of this article, any person who violates any provision of this article for which another penalty is not provided in this article is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than two hundred dollars nor more than five thousand dollars, or confined in the county or regional jail not less than fifteen days nor more than one year, or both.

It also notes that the arrest procedures authorized in section four, article nineteen, chapter seventeen-c of this code shall apply to the enforcement of the provisions of this article. So you could be arrested for driving without insurance or another form of financial security on your vehicle.

Keep in mind that while your registration has been suspended or revoked West Virginia laws will not allow the registration on the vehicle to be transferred until the commissioner is satisfied that such transfer of registration is proposed in good faith and not for the purpose or with the effect of defeating the penalties. So you could not register you car in another person's name for them to drive you around.

If you are found to have been driving on a suspended license from your prior citations for driving without insurance then WV Code section 17B-5-1 notes that you can be convicted of a misdemeanor and can be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

As you can see the possible penalties that you face for driving without insurance in West Virginia are quite severe, from the fines and jail time to suspension of license and revocation of your vehicle's registration. Since you have three citations for the same offense it is likely the court will give you the highest penalties possible since they will probably believe you had a disregard for the law.

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