ENGROSSED
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 580
(By Senators Facemyer, Edgell and Love)
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[Originating in the Committee on Government Organization;
reported March 23, 2005.]
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A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by
adding thereto a new section, designated §19-16-4a, relating
to prohibiting political subdivisions from regulating seeds.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended
by adding thereto a new section, designated §19-16-4a, to read as
follows:
ARTICLE 16. WEST VIRGINIA SEED LAW.
§19-16-4a. Local laws prohibited.
(a) No political subdivision may regulate the registration,
packaging, labeling, sale, storage, distribution, transportation
or any other use of seeds.
(b) No political subdivision may adopt or continue in effect
any local laws, ordinances or regulations relating to the
regulating, registration, packaging, labeling, sale, storage, distribution, transportation or any other use of seeds.
(c) Local laws, ordinances or regulations in violation of this
section are void and unenforceable.
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