H. B. 2130
(By Delegate Williams)
[Introduced February 14, 2001
; referred to the
Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources then Finance.]
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.