WEST virginia Legislature
2017 regular session
Introduced
House Bill 2169
By Delegates Fleischauer and Pushkin
[Introduced February
8, 2017; Referred
to the Committee on Political Subdivisions then Finance.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §7-5-22 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to clarifying that the county or regional solid waste authority that may impose and collect an additional solid waste assessment fee is the county or region where the waste originates.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §7-5-22 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 5. FISCAL AFFAIRS.
§7-5-22. County solid waste assessment fees authorized.
Each county or regional
solid waste authority is hereby authorized to impose a similar solid waste
assessment fee to that imposed by section eleven, article fifteen, chapter
twenty-two of this code at a rate not to exceed 504 per ton or part thereof upon the disposal of that
solid waste: in that county or region Provided, That
the county or regional solid waste authority that may impose and collect that
solid waste assessment fee is the county or region where the waste originates.
All assessments due shall be applied to the reasonable costs of administration
of the county's regional or county solid waste authority including the
necessary and reasonable expenses of its members, and any other expenses
incurred from refuse cleanup, litter control programs, or any solid waste
programs deemed necessary to fulfill its duties.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to clarify that the county or regional solid waste authority that may impose and collect an additional solid waste assessment fee is the county or region where the waste originates.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.