Senate Bill No. 142

(By Senator Snyder)

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[Introduced January 8, 2014; referred to the Committee

on Natural Resources; and then to the Committee on the Judiciary.]

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A BILL to amend and reenact article 10, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Division of Natural Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the electronic registration of wildlife.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

    That article 10, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

ARTICLE 10. AUTHORIZATION FOR BUREAU OF COMMERCE TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-10-1. Division of Natural Resources.

    The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 25, 2013, authorized under the authority of section four, article two, chapter twenty of this code, modified by the Division of Natural Resources to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on October 8, 2013, relating to the Division of Natural Resources (electronic registration of wildlife, 58 CSR 72), is authorized.

    NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division of Natural Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the electronic registration of wildlife.

    This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.