61 CSR 2

H. B. 2605

(By Delegates Brown, D. Poling, Fleischauer, Talbott, Overington and Sobonya)

[Introduced January 19, 2011; referred to the

Committee on Agriculture then the Judiciary.]

A BILL to amend and reenact article 9, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Commissioner of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to apiaries.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

    That article 9, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

ARTICLE 9. AUTHORIZATION FOR MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES AND BOARDS TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-9-1. Commissioner of Agriculture.

    The legislative rule filed in the state register on the twenty-sixth day of July, two thousand ten, authorized under the authority of section four, article thirteen, chapter nineteen, of this code, modified by the Commissioner of Agriculture to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the state register on the twenty-first day of September, two thousand ten, relating to the Commissioner of Agriculture (West Virginia Apiary Rule, 61 CSR 2), is authorized.

    NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Commissioner of Agriculture to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Apiaries.

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