COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE

FOR

H. B. 2671

(By Delegates Williams, Stemple, Everson, Stalnaker, Thompson,

Coleman and Collins)


(Originating in the Committee on Finance)

[March 5, 1999]


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 five-e, relating to the assessment of a fifty dollar fee as an additional penalty for crimes involving the division of natural resources' use of decoy animals.

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 five-e, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2. WILDLIFE RESOURCES.
§20-2-5e. Assessment fee for decoy animals.

Any person convicted for the violation of any law involving the division of natural resources' use of a decoy animal shall, in addition to any fines and costs for the criminal violation, pay a fifty dollar assessment to the division of natural resources, law-enforcement. The assessment shall be collected by the court in which the person is convicted and forwarded to the division of natural resources, law-enforcement section. All funds collected are to be placed in a special account and used for (1) the purchase or repair of decoy animals; and (2) the purchase of equipment for use with decoy animals.