Senate Bill No. 183
(By Senators Kessler, Dittmar, Hunter, Oliverio, Snyder, Deem,
Mitchell, McCabe, Sharpe, McKenzie, Schoonover, Love and Walker)
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[Introduced January 21, 1999;
referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.]
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A BILL to amend article one chapter, seven of the code of West
Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by
adding thereto a new section, designated section three-gg,
relating to authorizing county commissions to hire county
facilities' security personnel; providing that the security
personnel be employed by the county sheriff; and prohibiting
security personnel from undertaking certain law-enforcement
activities.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article one, chapter seven of the code of West Virginia,
one thousand nine hundred thirty-one as amended, be amended and
reenacted by adding thereto a new section, designated section
three-gg, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 1. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AND OFFICERS.
§7-1-3gg. Authority of county sheriff to employ county
facility security officers.
County sheriffs shall employ persons to provide security at
county facilities as the county commission deems necessary. The
county commission shall appropriate necessary funds for the payment
of wages and benefits and the sheriff of the county shall hire and
supervise these personnel. No security officer herein authorized
may, in the course of his or her employment, carry a weapon, escort
county inmates, or conduct any duties granted solely to certified
law enforcement officers of this state, pursuant to the provisions
of section five, article twenty-nine, chapter thirty of this code.
Note: The purpose of this bill is to authorize county
commissions to hire security officers, supervised by the county
sheriff, for policing of county facilities.
Section 3gg is new; therefore strike-throughs and underscoring
have been omitted.
This bill was recommended by the Joint Committee on the
Judiciary for introduction and passage in the 1999 legislative
session.
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