WEST virginia legislature

2018 regular session

Enrolled

Committee Substitute

for

Senate Bill 521

Senators Trump, Gaunch, Maynard, Stollings, and Boso, original sponsors

[Passed March 10, 2018; to take effect July 1, 2018]

AN ACT to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §30-29-13, relating to requiring any newly appointed chief executive of a municipal law-enforcement agency to be either a certified law-enforcement officer, or to be certifiable as such, according to the requirements set forth in other applicable provisions of this code; and providing that chief executives employed prior to the effective date are exempt from this requirement.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 29. LAW-ENFORCEMENT TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION.

§30-29-13. Chief executive requirements.

Notwithstanding any provision of this code to the contrary, on or after July 1, 2018, any person appointed to serve as the chief executive of a municipal law-enforcement agency shall be a certified, or certifiable as, a law-enforcement officer as provided in §30-29-5 of this code: Provided, That chief executives of municipal law-enforcement agencies employed prior to July 1, 2018, who are not certified law-enforcement officers are exempt from this requirement for purposes of the position he or she holds as of that date.