Bill-Oil & Gas
H. B. 4271
(By Delegates Hunt, Linch, Compton,
Jenkins, Faircloth and Riggs)
[Introduced January 28, 2000; referred to the Committee
on Government Organization then the Judiciary.]
A BILL to amend article three, chapter sixty-four of the
code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred
thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto a new
section, designated section three, relating to
authorizing the oil and gas commission to promulgate
a legislative rule relating to the commission.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article three, chapter sixty-four of the code of
West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section,
designated section three, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 3. AUTHORIZATION FOR BUREAU OF ENVIRONMENT TO
PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.
§64-3-3. Oil and gas commission.
The legislative rule filed in the state register on
the third day of August, one thousand nine hundred
ninety-nine, under the authority of section two, article
nine, chapter twenty-two-c, of this code, modified by the
oil and gas commission to meet the objections of the
legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the
state register on the sixteenth day of December, one
thousand nine hundred ninety-nine, relating to the oil and
gas commission (rules of the commission, 39 CSR 1), is
authorized.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the
Oil and Gas Commission to promulgate a legislative rule
relating to the Commission.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.