ENROLLED

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE

FOR

H. B. 2119

(By Delegate Warner)


[Passed April 13, 2001; in effect ninety days from passage.]



AN ACT to amend and reenact section four, article one, chapter fifty-nine of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to updating financial reporting requirements of the auditor, supreme court of appeals and the secretary of state to recognize the electronic accounting control system.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section four, article one, chapter fifty-nine of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 1. FEES AND ALLOWANCES.

§59-1-4. Fees collected by secretary of state, auditor and clerk of supreme court of appeals to be paid into state treasury; accounts; reports.

The fees to be charged by the auditor, secretary of state and clerk of the supreme court of appeals, by virtue of this article or any other law, shall be the property of the state of West Virginia, and they and each of them shall account for and pay into the state treasury at least once every thirty days all fees, by any of them collected, or appearing to be due to the state, to the credit of the general state fund or other fund as provided by law. The auditor, secretary of state and clerk of the supreme court of appeals shall each keep a complete and accurate account by items of all fees collected by them, and the nature of the services rendered for which all fees were charged and collected, in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, as provided in article two, chapter five-a of this code, and all accounts shall be open to inspection and audit as provided in article two, chapter four of this code.