WEST virginia legislature
2020 regular session
Committee Substitute
for
Senate Bill 142
Senators Sypolt, Hamilton, Jeffries, and Lindsay, original sponsors
[Originating in the Committee on Agricultural and Rural Development; reported on January 23, 2020]
A BILL to amend and reenact §7-7-6e of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to Coyote Control Program; providing for voluntary assessment on breeding-age cows to participate in Coyote Control Program; deleting language regarding expenditures for fiscal year ending June 30, 2006; requiring notice by certain cow owners participating in program; and making technical changes.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 7. COMPENSATION OF ELECTED COUNTY OFFICIALS.
§7-7-6e. Collection of head tax on sheep and goats;
duties of county assessors and Commissioner of Agriculture; deposit of tax
collections; creation of special revenue fund; purposes. Coyote Control
Program; purpose; assessment on breeding-age sheep, goats, and cows;
participation; notice.
After June 30, 2005, it shall be the duty of the (a) The
county assessor and his or her deputies of each county within the state, at the
time they are making assessments of the personal property within such county, shall
assess and collect an assessment of $1 on all breeding-age sheep, and $1
on all breeding-age goats, and $1 on
all breeding-age cows: Provided, That payment of
the assessment on breeding-age cows is voluntary at the option of the cow owner.
(b) The
assessor collecting the assessment on breeding-age sheep and goats shall be
allowed a commission of 10 percent upon all such taxes moneys
collected and shall send the Commissioner of Agriculture 90 percent of such
taxes so the assessment collected, who shall deposit the same in a
special account in the State Treasury to be known as the Integrated Predation
Management Fund. Expenditures from the fund shall be for the purposes set forth
in this section and are not authorized from collections but are to be made only
in accordance with appropriation by the Legislature and in accordance with the
provisions of §12-3-1 et seq. of this code and upon the fulfillment of
the provisions set forth in §11B-2-1 et seq. of this code. Provided,
That for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2006, expenditures are authorized from
collections rather than pursuant to an appropriation by the Legislature.
(c) The
moneys in the fund shall be used by the Commissioner of Agriculture solely to
enter into a cooperative service agreement
agreements with the United States Department of Agriculture Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service and Wildlife Services to expand the Coyote
Control Program statewide.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to expand the Coyote Control Program by providing for a voluntary assessment on breeding-age cows to participate in the program.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.