WEST virginia legislature

2021 regular session

Introduced

Senate Bill 359

By Senators Sypolt, Stollings, Woodrum, Nelson, Baldwin, and Roberts

[Introduced February 18, 2021; referred
to the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development]

A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §17C-4-17, relating to law enforcement making reasonable attempt to contact landowner when an accident occurs that damages a fence that could contain livestock.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 4. ACCIDENTS.

§17C-4-17.  Notification of landowner when accident damages livestock fence.

Whenever a member of the West Virginia State Police, Natural Resources police officer, a member of a county sheriff's department, or a municipal police officer, in the regular course of their duties, reports on a crash that causes damage to any fence that could contain livestock, that officer must make a reasonable attempt following the accident to contact the landowner that owns the fence.