ENROLLED
Senate Bill No. 346
(By Senators Kessler, Browning, Foster, Jenkins, Laird, Minard, Oliverio,
Palumbo, Snyder, Stollings, Williams, Yost, Barnes, Caruth, Deem and Hall)
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[Passed April 3, 2009; in effect ninety days from passage.]
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AN ACT to amend and reenact §20-2-22 of the Code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, relating to making a technical correction to
an internal code reference related to bear tagging.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §20-2-22 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2. WILDLIFE RESOURCES.
§20-2-22. Tagging, removing, transporting and reporting bear,
bobcat, deer, wild boar and wild turkey.
(a) Each person killing a bear, bobcat, deer, wild boar or
wild turkey found in a wild state shall either attach a completed
game tag to the animal or remain with the animal and have upon his
or her person a completed game tag before removing the carcass in
any manner from where it was killed.
(b) While transporting the carcass of a bear, bobcat, deer,
wild boar or wild turkey from where it was killed, each person shall either attach a completed game tag to the animal or have upon
his or her person a completed game tag.
(c) Upon arriving at a residence, camp, hunting lodge, vehicle
or vessel each person shall attach a game tag to the killed bear,
bobcat, deer, wild boar or wild turkey. The game tag shall remain
on the carcass until it is retagged by a conservation officer or an
official checking station.
(d) If a person who does not possess a game tag kills a bear,
bobcat, deer, wild boar or wild turkey, he or she shall make a tag.
The tag shall bear the name, address and, if applicable, the
license number of the hunter and the time, date and county of
killing.
(e) The carcass of a wild turkey shall be delivered to a
conservation officer or an official checking station for checking
and retagging before it is either skinned or transported beyond the
boundaries of the county adjacent to that in which the kill was
made.
(f) The fresh skin and head or carcass of the deer shall be
delivered to a conservation officer or an official checking station
for checking and retagging before it is transported beyond the
boundaries of the county adjacent to that in which the kill was
made.
(g) A person who kills a bear shall treat the carcass and
remains in accordance with the provisions of section twenty-two-a of this article.
(h) For each violation of this section a person is subject to
the penalties provided in this article.
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