WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2020 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

House Bill 4224

By Delegate Foster

[Introduced January 14, 2020; Referred

to the Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources then the Judiciary]

A BILL to amend and reenact §64-10-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Division of Forestry to promulgate a legislative rule relating to sediment control during commercial timber-harvesting operations-licensing.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 10. Authorization for DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE to promulgate legislative rules.

§64-10-1. Division of Forestry.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 26, 2019, authorized under the authority of §19-1B-4 of this code, relating to the Division of Forestry (sediment control during commercial timber-harvesting operations-licensing, 22 CSR 02), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division of Forestry to promulgate a legislative rule relating to sediment control during commercial timber-harvesting operations-licensing.

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