ENROLLED
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 521
(Senators Tomblin, Mr. President, Sprouse and Plymale, original sponsors)
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[Passed March 9, 2007; in effect ninety days from passage.]
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AN ACT to amend and reenact §20-14-8 of the Code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, relating to civil and criminal penalties
within the Hatfield-McCoy Regional Recreation Area;
establishing civil penalty fund; and providing for criminal
penalties for certain offenses.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §20-14-8 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
§20-14-8. Violation of rules, criminal and civil penalties; fund
established.
(a) Any person who violates any of the rules promulgated by
the board pursuant to this article is guilty of a misdemeanor and,
upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than five hundred
dollars for each offense
.
(b) Any person who violates any of the rules promulgated by
the board pursuant of this article relating to permits or failure to purchase a permit, safety violations or other civil violations
is subject to a civil penalty of one hundred dollars.
Authority
rangers shall issue citations for civil violations.
(c) All civil penalties for civil violations received pursuant
to this section shall be remitted to the authority
for deposit, on
or before the last day of each month,
with the State Treasurer in
the State Treasury to the credit of a special revenue fund to be
known as the
Hatfield-McCoy Recreation Area Fund,
which is hereby
created
for the benefit of the Hatfield-McCoy Recreation Area
.
Amounts collected which are found, from time to time, to exceed the
funds needed for the purposes set forth in this article may be
transferred to other accounts or funds and designated for other
purposes by appropriation of the Legislature.
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