ENGROSSED
Senate Bill No. 529
(By Senator Dittmar)
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[Introduced February 12, 1999; referred to the Committee on
Natural Resources; and then to the Committee on Finance.]
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A Bill to amend and reenact section forty-four-b, article two,
chapter twenty of the code of West Virginia, one thousand
nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to increasing
the fee for the bear damage stamp; and authorizing
additional purposes for use of bear damage fund.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section forty-four-b, article two, chapter twenty of
the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one,
as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2. WILDLIFE RESOURCES.
§20-2-44b. Bear damage stamp; distribution of fees; purposes, etc.
Any hunter licensed to hunt bear in this state shall in addition to a hunting license of either Class A, or AB, in the
case of a resident, or C, E, EE, L, LL or M, in the case of a nonresident, have a bear damage stamp which shall be issued by
the
department division of natural resources and which shall be
sold at places where hunting and fishing licenses are sold. The
fee for a bear damage stamp
shall be is four tentwenty dollars and all
proceeds from the sale of
such the stamps shall be
distributed as
follows: thirty percent shall be
paid into paid
intocredited to the bear damage fund which shall be maintained by the
department division of natural resources for the purposes of
paying claims of property owners for damages to real and personal
property caused by acts of bear
and to cover , of covering the
expense of hunting, capturing and removing offending bear to
remote areas
and seventy percent shall be credited to the
division of natural resources law-enforcement section. conducting investigationbss into illegal bear
hunting and other relevant violations of tlaw.