Senate Bill No. 674
(By Senator Snyder)
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[Introduced February 23, 1998; referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.]
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A BILL to amend article one, chapter seven of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section thirteen, relating to prohibiting county commissions from paying membership dues to any organization which engages in political lobbying.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article one, chapter seven of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section thirteen, to read as follows:

ARTICLE 1. COUNTY COMMISSIONS GENERALLY.

§7-1-13. County commissions prohibited from paying membership dues to political lobbying organizations.
No county commission or county commissioner may pay or cause to be paid in behalf of the county commission any membership dues to any organization which engages in political lobbying.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to prohibit county commissions from paying membership dues to any organization that engages in political lobbying.

Section thirteen is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.