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Introduced Version Senate Bill 39 History

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Senate Bill No. 39

(By Senator Ross, Dempsey, Love, White, Facemyer, Fanning, Caldwell, Rowe, McCabe, Minard, Hunter, Weeks, Boley and Smith)

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[Introduced January 14, 2004; referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.]

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A BILL to amend and reenact §22-13-15 of the code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to allowing landowners to enter small streams and ditches for the purpose of removing debris to prevent flooding without criminal or civil liability.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §22-13-15
of the code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 13. NATURAL STREAMS PRESERVATION ACT.
§22-13-15. Exceptions as to criminal liabilities.
(a) The criminal liabilities provided for in section fourteen of this article may not be imposed for any violation resulting from accident or caused by an act of God, war, strike, riot or other catastrophe as to which negligence or willful conduct on the part of such person was not the proximate cause.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code to the contrary, landowners are authorized to enter small streams and ditches for the purpose of removing debris to prevent the flooding of their homes and property without incurring criminal or civil liabilities.


NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to allow landowners to enter small streams and ditches for the purpose of removing debris to prevent flooding of their property.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
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