West Virginia Code § 17-17-12

Failure to provide gatekeeper and to allow prompt passage
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If at any toll bridge without an electronic toll collection system there be a failure to give any
person or property a passage over the same in a reasonable time, the proprietor thereof
shall forfeit to such person not less than $2 nor more than $20. If the keeper of any toll
bridge without an electronic toll collection system shall absent himself therefrom without
leaving any person in charge of the gates thereon, he shall leave the gates oepen. Any keeper
of a toll bridge without an electronic toll collection who shall fail to comply with the
requirements of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, uporn conviction thereof,
shall be fined $50 for every such offense; and any person injured by such failure shall be
entitled to recover therefor from such keeper all damages sustained thereby.

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