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WEST virginia legislature

2016 regular session

ENROLLED

Committee Substitute

for

House Bill 4360

(By Delegates Shaffer, Sponaugle, Shott, Reynolds, Miley, Mr. Speaker, (Mr. Armstead), Hanshaw and Weld)

[Passed March 11, 2016; in effect ninety days from passage.]



WEST virginia legislature

2016 regular session

ENROLLED

Committee Substitute

for

House Bill 4360

(By Delegates Shaffer, Sponaugle, Shott, Reynolds, Miley, Mr. Speaker, (Mr. Armstead), Hanshaw and Weld)

[Passed March 11, 2016; in effect ninety days from passage.]


 

 

 

 AN ACT to amend and reenact §30-2-4 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to unauthorized practice of law; increasing criminal penalties for unlawful practice of law; setting penalties for second or subsequent offense; removing antiquated language; and providing that a lawyer may advertise services or hire a person to assist in advertising services as permitted by the Rules of Professional Conduct.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:


That §30-2-4 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

 ARTICLE 2. ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.

§30-2-4. Practice without license or oath; penalty; qualification after institution of suits.


(a) It is unlawful for any person to practice or appear as an attorney-at-law for another in a court in this state or to make it a business to solicit employment for any attorney, or to hold himself or herself out to the public or any member thereof as being entitled to practice law, or in any other manner to assume, use or advertise the title of lawyer, attorney and counselor-at-law,   attorney and counselor or equivalent terms in any language, in such manner as to convey the impression that he or she is a legal practitioner of law, or in any manner to advertise that he or she, either alone or together with other persons, has, owns, conducts or maintains a law office, without first having been duly and regularly licensed and admitted to practice law in  the courts of this state, and without having subscribed and taken the oath required by the  provisions of section three of this article.

(b) Any person violating the provisions of subsection (a) of this section  is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $5,000, or confined in jail not more than ninety days, or both fined and confined, and on any subsequent offense, is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than $10,000, or confined in jail not more than one year, or both fined and confined:  Provided, That nothing herein prohibits a lawyer from advertising services or hiring a person to assist in advertising services as permitted by the Rules of Professional Conduct.



The Joint Committee on Enrolled Bills hereby certifies that the foregoing bill is correctly enrolled.

 

 

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        Chairman, House Committee

 

 

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                             Chairman, Senate Committee

                                                   

 

Originating in the House.

 

In effect ninety days from passage.

 

 

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                  Clerk of the House of Delegates

 

 

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                                                   Clerk of the Senate

 

 

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                                                   Speaker of the House of Delegates

 

 

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                                                                                     President of the Senate

 

 

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      The within ................................................... this the...........................................

 

day of ..........................................................................................................., 2016.

 

 

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                                                                                       Governor

 

 

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