H. B. 4021


(By Delegate Williams)

[Introduced January 13, 2000; referred to the

Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources.]




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 section. 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.





This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.