Bill-Forestry, Certification
H. B. 2420


(By Delegate Gallagher)

[Introduced March 1, 1993; referred to the

Committee on the Judiciary.]






A BILL to amend article three, chapter sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section sixteen, relating to authorizing the division of forestry to promulgate legislative rules relating to sediment control during commercial timber-harvesting operations - logger certification.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That article three, chapter sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section sixteen, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 3. AUTHORIZATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, LABOR AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-3-16. Division of forestry.
The legislative rules filed in the state register on the eighteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred ninety-two, modified by the division of forestry to meet theobjections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the twentieth day of January, one thousand nine hundred ninety-three, relating to the division of forestry (sediment control during commercial timber-harvesting operations - logger certification), are authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division of Forestry to promulgate legislative rules relating to sediment control during commercial timber-harvesting operations - logger certification.

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