H. B. 4163

(By Delegates Hunt, Linch, Compton, Jenkins,


Faircloth and Riggs)

[Introduced January 30, 1998; referred to the

Committee on Government Organization then the Judiciary.]





A BILL to amend and reenact section one, article six, chapter sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to authorizing the fire commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the state building code.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That section one, article six, chapter sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended and reenacted, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 6. AUTHORIZATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY AFFAIRS AND PUBLIC SAFETY TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-6-1. Fire commission.
(a) The legislative rule filed in the state register on the first twenty-second day of August October, one thousand nine hundred ninety-six ninety-seven, modified by the fire commission to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the twenty-ninth twentieth day of October January, one thousand nine hundred ninety-six ninety- eight, relating to the fire commission (state building code, 87 CSR 4), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Fire Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the State Building Code.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.