ENROLLED
H. B. 2130
(By Delegate Williams)
[Passed April 13, 2001; in effect ninety days from passage.
]
AN ACT 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 civil penalty in
addition to any fines and costs 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 civil penalty to the division of natural resources,
law-enforcement section. The civil penalty 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.