West Virginia Code of State Rules › Agency 91 - Motor Vehicles › Title 91 - LEGISLATIVE RULE DIVISION OF MOTOR VEHICLES › Series 91-04 - Examination and Issuance of Drivers License › Section 91-4-3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 28, July 12, 2024
3.1. Birth
				Certificate. Means the certified original or certified copy of a birth
				certificate issued by a state or other governmental agency of the United
				States, its territories, or Puerto Rico responsible for the collection of vital
				records indicating a person's name and date of birth. The term birth
				certificate also means a Consular Report of Birth Abroad of a Citizen of the
				United States in a form authorized by Federal Law. For the purposes of this
				rule, a document issued by a hospital is not considered a birth certificate.
				For the purposes of this rule, the term birth certificate shall also include a
				valid United States Passport or a military identification card subject to the
				provisions of WV Code §
									17B-2-8(i).
3.2. Certified. Means a validation of a
				document by a state or other governmental agency responsible for the issuance,
				collection or verification of documents with a raised or stamped seal
				indicating the authenticity of the document. Duplicate copies, notarized copies
				not certified by the issuing agency are not acceptable.
3.3. Court Order. Means an original or copy
				of a court's official determination or final order.
3.4. Divorce Decree. Means an original or
				copy of a court's judgment or decree dissolving a marriage.
3.5. Driver's License. Means any permit or
				license issued by this state or any other state or jurisdiction which
				authorizes a person to operate a motor vehicle including an instruction permit,
				level 1, 2, or 3 driver's license or a commercial driver's license.
3.6. Full Legal Name. Means a person's first
				name, middle names or family names and last name without the use of initials or
				nicknames as established by identity documents.
3.7. United States Citizen and Immigration
				Services or USCIS. Means the United States Department of Homeland Security,
				Citizen and Immigration Services or if applicable, the Immigration and Custom
				Enforcement Agency or either's successor agency of the United States Department
				of Homeland Security. Wherever the term United States Immigration and
				Naturalization Services or INS is used, it shall be construed as referring to
				its successor agency, the United States Citizen and Immigration Services or if
				applicable the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency.
3.8. Marriage Certificate. Means the original
				or copy of the record of marriage verified by the state or other governmental
				agency responsible for the collection or verification of marriage
				records.
3.9. Residence Address.
				Means the address of the applicant's principal residence required to be on the
				face of the driver's license document by the provision of West Virginia Code
				§
									17B-2-8 with the exception of:
3.9.a. An applicant who can verify that his
				or her principal residence is physically located in West Virginia but who has
				no fixed address or designated address to which mail can be delivered by the
				United States Postal Service and who must use another address for the purposes
				of receiving mail;
3.9.b. Addresses
				protected under the provisions of the Violence Against Women and Department of
				Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 or another state sponsored address
				confidentiality program;
3.9.c.
				Addresses protected under the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant
				Responsibility Act of 1996;
3.9.d.
				Addresses on restricted driver's licenses issued under the provision of the
				alcohol test and lock program established under the provisions of West Virginia
				Code §
										17C-5A-3a; or
3.9.e. Addresses on licenses issued to
				participants in witness protection programs, law enforcement officers,
				prosecutors or members of the judicial system who in opinion of the
				commissioner face substantial risk of harm if his or her license contains their
				residence address.