Senate Bill No. 511
(By Senator Love)
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[Introduced February 19, 1996; referred to the Committee
on Natural Resources; and then to the Committee on Finance
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A BILL to amend article two, chapter twenty of the code of West
Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended,
by adding thereto a new section, designated section
sixty-four, relating to allowing out-of-state residents to
hunt and fish for free for two designated days in
celebration of the state's homecoming.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article two, chapter twenty of the code of West
Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be
amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section
sixty-four, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2. WILDLIFE RESOURCES.
§20-2-64. Out-of-state residents; two days free hunting.
In celebration of the state's homecoming, out-of-state
residents shall be permitted to hunt and fish for free on October
eighteenth and nineteenth, one thousand nine hundred ninety-six,
if the out-of-state resident possesses a valid West Virginia
birth certificate. The West Virginia birth certificate shall
serve as both a hunting and fishing license during the two days.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to allow out-of-state
residents to hunt and fish for free during a designated two-day
period in celebration of Homecoming 1996.
This article is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.