H. B. 2894


(By Delegates Butcher, Ennis, Hatfield, Manchin, Prunty, Yeager and Leggett)

(Originating in the Committee on Government Organization)


[March 16, 2001]



A BILL to amend and reenact section four-a, article nine, chapter twenty-two-c of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to continuing the oil and gas conservation commission.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section four-a, article nine, chapter twenty-two-c of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
 §22C-9-4a. Termination of commission; reports.
(a) The commission is hereby continued until the first day of July, two thousand one.
(b) On or before the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred ninety-eight, and for the next two consecutive years thereafter, the oil and gas conservation commission shall submit a report annually to the joint committee on government operations of its activities for the year and any recommendations for improving the function of the commission.
Pursuant to the provisions of article ten, chapter four of this code, the oil and gas conservation commission shall continue to exist until the first day of July, two thousand five, unless sooner terminated, continued or reestablished pursuant to the provisions of that article.