COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
H. B. 2075
(By Delegate Love)
(Originating in the House Committee on the Judiciary)
[February 23, 1993]
A BILL to amend and reenact section sixteen, article fourteen-b,
chapter seven of the code of West Virginia, one thousand
nine hundred thirty-one, as amended; and to amend and
reenact section nine, article ten, chapter sixty-two of said
code, all relating to correctional officers generally;
defining the qualifications and duties of correctional
officers; reducing the retraining requirements of
correctional officers; and prescribing the power and
authority of correctional officers to execute warrants when
the person named in the warrant surrenders to the
correctional officer.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section sixteen, article fourteen-b, chapter seven of
the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one,
as amended, be amended and reenacted; and that section nine,
article ten, chapter sixty-two of said code be amended and
reenacted, all to read as follows:
ARTICLE 14B. CIVIL SERVICE FOR CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS.
§7-14B-16. Training and retraining programs for all correctional
officers required.
(a) The civil service commission of any such county shall
establish or prescribe a training program which every
correctional officer first appointed a correctional officer of
such county on or after the effective date of this article, must
satisfactorily complete during his probationary period.
(b) The civil service commission of any such county shall
also establish or prescribe annual retraining programs of at
least forty eight hours which every correctional officer, whether
first appointed such correctional officer was first appointed
before or after the effective date of this article, must
satisfactorily complete from time to time annually after the
effective date of this article, in order to continue as a
correctional officer of such county or to be eligible for
promotion.
(c) On a quarterly basis, the civil service commission of
each county shall submit an information-only report containing
the names of each correctional officer completing training, and
the hours of training each such officer received, to the
Governor's committee on crime, delinquency and corrections, which
committee was established pursuant to the provisions of section
one, article nine, chapter fifteen of this code.
ARTICLE 10. PREVENTION OF CRIME.
§62-10-9. Power and authority of sheriffs and deputy sheriffs
to make arrests.
Sheriffs and each of their deputies are hereby authorized
and empowered within their respective counties to make arrests
for any crime for which a warrant has been issued in violation ofany laws of the United States or of this state, and to make
arrests without warrant for all violations of any of the criminal
laws of the United States, or of this state, when committed in
their presence. A county correctional officer may execute a
warrant, issued for the arrest of a person, only when the person
named in the warrant voluntarily surrenders to the correctional
officer at the county jail at which the correctional officer is
employed.