Bill-Oil & Gas
H. B. 4271

(By Delegates Hunt, Linch, Compton,

Jenkins, Faircloth and Riggs)


[Introduced January 28, 2000; referred to the Committee on Government Organization then the Judiciary.]




A BILL to amend article three, chapter sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section three, relating to authorizing the oil and gas commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the commission.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That article three, chapter sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section three, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 3. AUTHORIZATION FOR BUREAU OF ENVIRONMENT TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.


§64-3-3. Oil and gas commission.
The legislative rule filed in the state register on the third day of August, one thousand nine hundred ninety-nine, under the authority of section two, article nine, chapter twenty-two-c, of this code, modified by the oil and gas commission to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the sixteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred ninety-nine, relating to the oil and gas commission (rules of the commission, 39 CSR 1), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Oil and Gas Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Commission.

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