ENGROSSED
Senate Bill No. 79
(By Senator Dittmar)
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[Introduced January 13, 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 thirty-three, article two,
chapter twenty of the code of West Virginia, one thousand
nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to issuance of
hunting, trapping and fishing licenses; providing that
certain hunting, trapping and fishing licenses may be
purchased and issued electronically; director of natural
resources may prescribe fee for electronic purchase and
issuance; removal of one thousand dollar bonding requirement
for agents issuing licenses; and promulgation of rules.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section thirty-three, 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.
§20-2-33. Authority of director to designate agents to issue
licenses; bonds; fees.
(a)The director may appoint, in addition to the clerk of the
county commission, agents to issue licenses under the provisions
of this article to serve the convenience of the public. Each
person
, so appointed, shall, before issuing any license, file
with the director a bond payable to the state of West Virginia,
in the amount to be fixed by the director,
at not less than one
thousand dollars conditioned upon the faithful performance of his
or her obligation to issue licenses only in conformity with the
provisions of this article and to account for all license fees
received by him or her. The form of the bond shall be prescribed
by the attorney general. No person, other than those designated
as issuing agents by the director, shall sell licenses or buy the
same licenses for the purposes of resale.
(b)Except After the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine
hundred ninety, except when a license is purchased from a state
official, every person making application for a license shall pay, in addition to the license fee prescribed
therefor in the
later sections of for it in this article, an additional fee of
seventy-five cents to any county official issuing the license and
all fees collected by county officials shall be paid by them into
the general fund of the county treasury or, in the case of an
agent issuing the license, an additional fee of one dollar as
compensation:
Provided, That only one fee of seventy-five cents
or one dollar shall be collected by county officials or
authorized agents, respectively, for issuing two or more licenses
at the same time for use by the same person or for issuing
combination resident statewide hunting, trapping and fishing
Class AB licenses:
Provided, however, That licenses may be
issued electronically in a manner prescribed by the director, and
persons purchasing electronically issued licenses may be
assessed, in addition to the license fee prescribed in this
article, an electronic issuance fee to be prescribed by the
director.
The director may propose rules for legislative approval in
accordance with the provisions of article three, chapter twenty- nine-a of this code to implement the provisions of this section.
SB79 S FIN AM #1
The Committee on Finance moved to amend the bill on page
two, section thirty-three, line one, before the word "The" by inserting "(a)";
On page two, section thirty-three, line four, by striking
out the comma and the word "so";
On page two, section thirty-three, line fourteen, by
striking out the word "same" and inserting in lieu thereof the
word "licenses";
On pages two and three, section thirty-three, lines fifteen
and sixteen, by striking out the words "After the thirtieth day
of June, one thousand nine hundred ninety, except" and inserting
in lieu thereof the following: "(b) Except";
On page three, section thirty-three, line nineteen, by
striking out the words "therefor in the later sections of" and
inserting in lieu thereof the words "for it in";
And,
On pages three and four, section thirty-three, by striking
out all of lines thirty-five through thirty-eight, and inserting
in lieu thereof a new subsection, designated subsection (c), to
read as follows:
(c) In lieu of the license issuance fee prescribed in
subsection (b) of this section, the director shall proposed rules
for legislative approval in accordance with the provisions of
article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code, governing the application for and issuance of licenses by telephone and other
electronic methods.
Adopted
Rejected