Senate Bill No. 120
(By Senator Love)
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[Introduced January 9, 2008; referred to the Committee on
Government Organization; and then to the Committee on Finance.]
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A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by
adding thereto a new section, designated §24-2-19, relating to
requiring the Public Service Commission to conduct quarterly
safety inspections of propane tanks.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended
by adding thereto a new section, designated §24-2-19, to read as
follows:
ARTICLE 2. POWERS AND DUTIES OF PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION.
§24-2-19. Propane tank inspection.
Beginning the first day of January, two thousand ten, in
addition to all other duties herein prescribed, the commission
shall conduct quarterly inspections of all propane tanks, used for
residential or commercial purposes, in this state. The
commissioner shall propose rules for legislative approval in accordance with the provisions of article three, chapter
twenty-nine-a of this code designed to provide and train an
adequate number of inspectors to perform quarterly inspections of
all such tanks. The rules shall include minimum conditional
standards related to the safe use, storage and operation of propane
tanks including conditional standards related to tubing, regulators
or other apparatus used in the operation of propane tanks.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require the Public
Service Commission to conduct quarterly safety inspections of
propane tanks.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.