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Senate Bill No. 722

(By Senators Helmick, Mitchell, Anderson, Bowman, Love, Minard, Plymale, Prezioso, Ross, Rowe and Snyder )

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[Originating in the Committee on Natural Resources;


reported February 26, 2002.]

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A BILL to amend and reenact section forty-six-m, article two, chapter twenty of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to Class XJ junior sportsman's hunting, fishing and trapping licenses for residents fifteen to eighteen years old and nonresidents under the age of fifteen.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section forty-six-m, 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.

§20-2-46m. Class XJ junior sportsman's hunting, fishing and trapping license.

On or after the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred eighty-nine two thousand three, a Class XJ license shall be a resident junior sportsman's hunting, fishing and trapping license and shall entitle the licensee to hunt and trap for all legal species of wild animals and wild birds, to fish for all legal species of fish and to take frogs in all counties of the state, except as prohibited by the rules and regulations of the director or when additional licenses and permits are required.
No additional fees shall be required of Class XJ licensees for a Class I, U, UU, V, VV, or W or WW license or for the resident conservation stamp required by section nine, article two-b of this chapter in order for the Class XJ licensee to participate in the seasons for which said licenses are required. Trout fishing is not permitted with a Class XJ license unless said the licensee possesses a valid Class O or Class O-L trout license.
The Class XJ license shall may be issued only to citizens of the United States or Canada and to unnaturalized persons who possess the permit referred to in section twenty-nine of this article who are residents of this state and who have reached their fifteenth birthday and who have not reached their eighteenth birthday and who are otherwise required to purchase a license pursuant to this article and chapter
pursuant to section twenty- seven of this article. The fee for the Class XJ license shall be fifteen dollars, of which three dollars shall be designated as conservation stamp revenue and expended pursuant to section nine, article two-b of this said chapter.
The Class XJ license may be issued to
nonresidents who have not reached their fifteenth birthday, except that a license shall not be required for fishing by nonresidents who have not reached their fifteenth birthday pursuant to section twenty-seven of this article. The fee charged to a nonresident for the Class XJ license shall be fifteen dollars. In addition to paying the Class XJ license fee, a nonresident applicant shall purchase a conservation stamp pursuant to section nine, article two-b of this chapter, and a law-enforcement and sports education stamp pursuant to section ten, article two-b of this chapter.
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