Senate Bill No. 93
(By Senators Dittmar, Minard, Ross, Plymale,
Craigo, Anderson, Schoonover and Withers)
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[Introduced January 24, 1994; referred to the Committee
on Natural Resources; and then to the Committee on Finance.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact section thirty-three, article two,
chapter twenty of the code of West Virginia, one thousand
nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to the
issuance of hunting, trapping and fishing licenses;
authorizing issuance of hunting, trapping and fishing
licenses by employees of the division of tourism and parks;
and administrative fees.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section thirty-three, 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.
ยง20-2-33. Authority of director to designate agents to issue
licenses; bonds; fees.
The director may appoint, in addition to the clerk of the
county commission and employees of the division of tourism and
parks, agents to issue licenses under the provisions of this
article to serve the convenience of the public. Each person, soappointed, shall, before issuing any license, file with the
director a bond payable to the state of West Virginia, in the
amount to be fixed by the director at not less than one thousand
dollars, conditioned upon the faithful performance of his or her
obligation to issue licenses only in conformity with the
provisions of this article and to account for all license fees
received by him or her. The form of the bond shall be prescribed
by the attorney general. No person, other than those designated
as issuing agents by the director, shall may sell licenses or buy
the same for the purposes of resale.
After the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred
ninety ninety-four, except when a license is purchased from a
state official an employee of the division of natural resources,
every person making application for a license shall pay, in
addition to the license fee prescribed therefor in the later
sections of this article, an additional fee of seventy-five cents
one dollar to any county official issuing the license and all
fees collected by county officials shall be paid by them into the
general fund of the county treasury or, in the case of an
employee of the division of tourism and parks or an agent issuing
the license, an additional fee of one dollar as compensation, and
all fees collected by employees of the division of tourism and
parks shall be paid by them into the parks operating account of
the division of tourism and parks:
Provided,
That only one fee
of seventy-five cents or one dollar shall be collected by county
officials, by employees of the division of tourism and parks orauthorized agents, respectively, for issuing two or more licenses
at the same time for use by the same person or for issuing
combination resident statewide hunting, trapping and fishing
Class AB licenses.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division
of Tourism and Parks to charge a one dollar administrative fee
when an individual purchases a hunting or fishing license from
the Division.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken
from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language
that would be added.