Senate Bill No. 511
(By Senators Plymale, Helmick, Ross, Minear and Anderson)
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[Introduced March 24, 1997; referred to the Committee
on Natural Resources; and then to the Committee on Finance.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact section seven, article nineteen,
chapter thirty of the code of West Virginia, one thousand
nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to raising the
board of foresters annual license renewal fee.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section seven, article nineteen, chapter thirty of the
code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 19. FORESTERS.
§30-19-7. Expiration and renewal of license; fee.
Licenses shall expire on the last day of the month of June
following their issuance or renewal and shall become invalid on
that date unless renewed. It shall be the duty of the secretary
of the board to notify every person registered under this article, at his or her last registered address, of the date of
the expiration of his or her license and the amount of the fee
that shall be required for its renewal for one year; such notice
shall be mailed at least sixty days in advance of the date of the
expiration of said license. The fee for the renewal of licenses
shall be five dollars per year. On the first day of July, one
thousand nine hundred ninety-seven, the annual fee for renewal of
a license is fifteen dollars per year. Thereafter the board may
increase the annual renewal fee in increments of five dollars per
year, up to a maximum annual renewal fee of forty dollars.
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(NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to raise the Board of
Foresters annual license renewal fee.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken
from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language
that would be added.)