H. B. 2690
(By Delegates Ennis, By Request,
and Givens)
[Introduced February 9, 1999; referred to the
Committee on Agriculture and Natural
Resources then Finance.]
A BILL to amend and reenact section thirty-three, article two,
chapter twenty of the code of West Virginia, one thousand
nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to providing
that when county officials or authorized agents have issued
a hunting, trapping or fishing license and have assessed an
issuing fee, an issuing fee may not be subsequently assessed
if a person later purchases an additional stamp for that
license, so long as the stamp is purchased where the license
was initially purchased.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section thirty-three, article two, chapter twenty of
the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one,
as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2. WILDLIFE RESOURCES.
§20-2-33. Authority of director to designate agents to issue licenses; bonds; fees.
The director may appoint, in addition to the clerk of the
county commission, agents to issue licenses under the provisions
of this article to serve the convenience of the public. Each
person, so appointed, shall, before issuing any license, file
with the director a bond payable to the state of West Virginia,
in the amount to be fixed by the director at not less than one
thousand dollars, conditioned upon the faithful performance of
his or her obligation to issue licenses only in conformity with
the provisions of this article and to account for all license
fees received by him or her. The form of the bond shall be
prescribed by the attorney general. No person, other than those
designated as issuing agents by the director, shall sell licenses
or buy the same for the purposes of resale.
After the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred
ninety, except when a license is purchased from a state official,
every person making application for a license shall pay, in
addition to the license fee prescribed therefor in the later
sections of this article, an additional fee of seventy-five cents
to any county official issuing the license and all fees collected
by county officials shall be paid by them into the general fund
of the county treasury or, in the case of an agent issuing the
license, an additional fee of one dollar as compensation:
Provided, That only one fee of seventy-five cents or one dollar shall be collected by county officials or authorized agents,
respectively, for issuing two or more licenses at the same time
for use by the same person or for issuing combination resident
statewide hunting, trapping and fishing Class AB licenses:
Provided, however, That when a county official or authorized
agent has issued a license and assessed the respective fee of
seventy-five cents or one dollar, an issuing fee may not be
subsequently assessed if a person later purchases an additional
stamp for that license, so long as the stamp is purchased where
the license was initially purchased.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide that where
county officials or authorized agents have issued a hunting,
trapping or fishing license and have assessed an issuing fee, an
issuing fee may not be subsequently assessed if a person later
purchases an additional stamp for that license, so long as the
stamp is purchased where the license was initially purchased.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken
from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language
that would be added.