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Senate Bill No. 120

(By Senator Love)

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[Introduced January 9, 2008; referred to the Committee on Government Organization; and then to the Committee on Finance.]

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A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §24-2-19, relating to requiring the Public Service Commission to conduct quarterly safety inspections of propane tanks.

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 §24-2-19, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2. POWERS AND DUTIES OF PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION.
§24-2-19. Propane tank inspection.

Beginning the first day of January, two thousand ten, in addition to all other duties herein prescribed, the commission shall conduct quarterly inspections of all propane tanks, used for residential or commercial purposes, in this state. The commissioner shall propose rules for legislative approval in accordance with the provisions of article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code designed to provide and train an adequate number of inspectors to perform quarterly inspections of all such tanks. The rules shall include minimum conditional standards related to the safe use, storage and operation of propane tanks including conditional standards related to tubing, regulators or other apparatus used in the operation of propane tanks.


NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require the Public Service Commission to conduct quarterly safety inspections of propane tanks.

This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.
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