West Virginia Code of State Rules › Agency 149 - Crime, Delinquency And Correction › Title 149 - LEGISLATIVE RULE GOVERNOR'S COMMITTEE ON CRIME, DELINQUENCY AND CORRECTION › Series 149-05 - Motor Vehicle Stop Data Collection Standards For The Study Of Racial Profiling › Section 149-5-2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 28, July 12, 2024
2.1. "Chief
				executive" means the Superintendent of the State Police; the Chief Conservation
				Officer of the Division of Natural Resources; the sheriff of any West Virginia
				county; any administrative deputy appointed by the Chief Conservation Officer
				of Natural Resources; the chief of any West Virginia municipal law- enforcement
				agency; or the duly authorized designee of any chief executive.
2.2. "Composition of patrol area" means the
				demographic description of the population in the patrol area to include
				elements of ethnicity, national origin, gender and age.
2.3. "County" means any one of the fifty-five
				major political subdivisions of the state.
2.4. "Driver" or "operator" means the person
				who drives or is in actual physical control of a motor vehicle upon a highway
				or who is exercising control over or steering a vehicle being towed by a motor
				vehicle.
2.5. "Governor's Committee
				on Crime, Delinquency and Correction" or "Governor's committee" means the
				committee established as a state planning agency pursuant to W. Va. Code
				§15- 9-1.
2.6. "Gross data"
				means aggregate data regarding the information obtained pursuant to section 3
				of this rule.
2.7. "Law-enforcement
				agency" means every West Virginia state, county or municipal agency with
				officers who are authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests or
				issue citations or warnings for violations of traffic laws and
				ordinances.
2.8. "Law-enforcement
				officer" or "officer" means any duly authorized member of a law-enforcement
				agency who is authorized to maintain public peace and order, prevent and detect
				crime, make arrests and enforce the laws of the state or any county or
				municipality of the state, including persons employed as campus police officers
				at state institutions of higher education and those persons employed as rangers
				by the Hatfield-McCoy Regional Recreation Authority.
2.9. "Minority group" means individuals of
				any ethnic descent, including, but not limited to, African-American, Hispanic,
				Native American, Middle Eastern, Asian or Pacific Islander.
2.10. "Municipality" means any incorporated
				town, village or city whose boundaries lie within the geographic boundaries of
				the state.
2.11. "Originating
				agency Identifier, or ORI Number" means the standard identification number
				assigned by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to law-enforcement and other
				agencies that submit data required for criminal justice purposes.
2.12. "Patrol area" means a clearly defined
				geographic area, identified by a number assigned by the chief law-enforcement
				official, that is established for the general purpose of providing a visible
				law enforcement presence in the area, in order to:
(1) Secure property and to protect the public
				from the risks of damage or injury arising from criminal activity;
(2) respond to emergency and non-emergency
				demands of citizens in a timely manner;
(3) conduct prevention and other proactive
				patrol tasks effectively; and
(4)
				conduct all other patrol tasks effectively, including traffic control and
				special missions work.