Senate Bill No. 243
(By Senator Jackson)
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[Introduced March 5, 1997; referred to the Committee
on Finance.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact section three, article twelve-d,
chapter eleven of the code of West Virginia, one thousand
nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to requiring
that the office of business registration or some other
appropriate section of the department of tax and revenue
annually provide at no cost a list of businesses registered
within a county to the county assessor; and limiting the fee
for lists provided thereafter.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section three, article twelve-d, chapter eleven of the
code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 12D. ESTABLISHMENT OF OFFICE OF BUSINESS REGISTRATION;
CREATION OF CENTRALIZED RECORDS.
§11-12D-3. Agency contact list, dispersal of data base information to agencies, agency contact with
prospective businesses.
(a) An agency contact list consisting of those state
government agencies and offices having registration, licensing or
other similar statutory provisions related to the initiation of
new businesses in West Virginia or which should otherwise have
contact with a new business, will be maintained by the office of
business registration in conjunction with the centralized records
for new business registration.
(b) Based upon the proposed location, size, number of
employees, type of business, standard industry code or codes and
other pertinent information relating to the business, each
prospective new business, upon having a record established in the
centralized records for new business registration, shall be
informed by the office of business registration of those state
agencies or offices having a registration, licensing and other
similar statutory provisions related to the initiation of a new
business in West Virginia or other function relating to
prospective new business such that the agency or office should by
law or regulation be given notice of the establishment or
operation of a new business in West Virginia. The office of
business registration shall establish a record of the new business in the centralized data base for the use and benefit of
any agency or officer of the state of West Virginia having access
to the data base and which should, by law, or regulation receive
notice of the establishment or operation of a particular
business. The record should contain such information as is
necessary to fulfill the regulatory, registration or licensing
function of that agency, or in lieu of such information, the
name, address and other pertinent information relating to the
particular business whereby the agency or office may initiate
such procedures or make such contact with the particular business
as is appropriate for the fulfillment of the regulatory,
registration, licensing or other statutory duties of the office
or agency.
(c) The office of business registration or some other
appropriate section of the department of tax and revenue shall
provide a list of all registered businesses located within a
county to the county assessor. The list shall be provided at
no cost to the county assessor between the first day of July and
the first day of August of each year. Any additional list of
businesses provided to the county assessor before the next annual
list is provided shall be provided at no more than the actual
cost to copy the list.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require that the
office of business registration or some other appropriate section
of the department of tax and revenue annually provide a list of
businesses located within a county to the county assessor at no
cost; and that any additional list of businesses be provided at
no more than the actual cost to produce the list.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken
from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language
that would be added.