ENROLLED
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 477
(Senators Prezioso, Facemyer, Bowman, Deem, Green, Love, Barnes, White,
Plymale, Jenkins, Kessler, Foster, Stollings and Hunter, original
sponsors)
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[Passed March 6, 2008; to take effect July 1, 2008.]
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AN ACT to amend and reenact §20-7-1a and §20-7-1c of the Code of
West Virginia, 1931, as amended, all relating to compensation
of conservation officers; providing an increase in length of
service and base salaries for conservation officers; providing
a hiring bonus for conservation officers; amending ranks of
conservation officers; and eliminating provisions relating to
certain other compensation.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §20-7-1a and §20-7-1c of the Code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted, all to read as follows:
ARTICLE 7. LAW ENFORCEMENT, MOTORBOATING, LITTER.
§20-7-1a. Conservation officers salary increase based on length
of service.
(a) Each conservation officer shall receive a four hundred-
dollar increase in salary over that set forth in section one-c of
this article for grade in rank, based on length of service
following the first two years of service, to be effective the next
year of service and for each year thereafter, with the increases to
be cumulative.
(b) A salary increase shall be based upon years of service as
of the first day of July of each year and may not be recalculated
until the first day of July of the following year.
(c) Conservation officers in service at the time the length of
service salary increase become effective shall be given credit for
prior service.
(d) This section does not apply to special or emergency
conservation officers appointed under the authority of section one
of this article.
§20-7-1c. Conservation officers, ranks, salary schedule, base pay,
exceptions.
(a) Notwithstanding any provision of this code to the
contrary, the ranks within the law-enforcement section of the
Division of Natural Resources are colonel, lieutenant colonel,
major, captain, lieutenant, sergeant, corporal, conservation
officer first class, senior conservation officer, conservation officer and conservation officer-in-training. Each officer while
in uniform shall wear the insignia of rank as provided by the chief
conservation officer.
(b) Beginning on the first day of July, two thousand two, and
continuing thereafter, conservation officers shall be paid the
minimum annual salaries based on the following schedule:
ANNUAL SALARY SCHEDULE (BASE PAY)
SUPERVISORY AND NONSUPERVISORY RANKS
Conservation Officer-in-training (first year until end of
probation)................................................$26,337
Conservation Officer (second year)........................$29,768
Conservation Officer (third year).........................$30,140
Senior Conservation Officer(fourth and fifth year)........$30,440
Senior Conservation Officer First Class(after fifth year)..$32,528
Senior Conservation Officer (after tenth year)............$33,104
Senior Conservation Officer (after fifteenth year)........$33,528
Corporal (after sixteenth year)...........................$36,704
Sergeant..................................................$40,880
First Sergeant............................................$42,968
Lieutenant................................................$47,144
Captain...................................................$49,232
Major.....................................................$51,320
Lieutenant Colonel........................................$53,408
Colonel...................................................
Beginning on the first day of July, two thousand eight, each
new conservation officer shall receive a three thousand-dollar
hiring bonus in addition to the following salary schedules.
Beginning on the first day of July, two thousand eight, until
and including the thirtieth day of June, two thousand nine,
conservation officers shall be paid the annual salaries based on
the following schedule:
ANNUAL SALARY SCHEDULE (BASE PAY)
SUPERVISORY AND NONSUPERVISORY RANKS
Conservation Officer (in training 1-6 months)..............$31,622
Conservation Officer (after training through first year)....$38,458
Conservation Officer Second Year .........................$39,922
Conservation Officer Third Year ..........................$40,294
Senior Conservation Officer (4th - 6th year)................$40,682
Conservation Officer First Class (7th - 9th year)...........$41,270
Corporal (10+ years)......................................$41,858
Sergeant .................................................$46,034
First Sergeant............................................$48,122
Lieutenant ...............................................$52,298
Captain...................................................$54,386
Major.....................................................$56,474
Lieutenant Colonel .......................................$58,562
Colonel ..................................................
Beginning on the first day of July, two thousand nine, and continuing thereafter, conservation officers shall receive annual
salaries as follows:
ANNUAL SALARY SCHEDULE (BASE PAY)
SUPERVISORY AND NONSUPERVISORY RANKS
Conservation Officer (in training 1-6 months)..............$33,122
Conservation Officer (after training through first year)...$39,958
Conservation Officer Second Year...........................$40,922
Conservation Officer Third Year............................$41,294
Senior Conservation Officer (4th - 6
th Year).................$41,682
Conservation Officer First Class (7
th - 9th Year)............$42,270
Corporal (10+ years)......................................$42,858
Sergeant ..................................................$47,034
First Sergeant ............................................$49,122
Lieutenant ................................................$53,298
Captain ...................................................$55,386
Major .....................................................$57,474
Lieutenant Colonel ........................................$59,562
Colonel ...................................................
Each conservation officer whose salary is fixed in this salary
schedule is also entitled to the length of service increases set
forth in subsection one-a of this article.
Conservation officers in service at the time the salary
schedules become effective shall be given credit for prior service.
(c) This section does not apply to special or emergency conservation officers appointed under the authority of section one
of this article.