ENROLLED

H. B. 2946


(By Delegates Yeager, Williams and Stemple)


[Passed April 14, 2001; in effect ninety days from passage.]




AN ACT to amend and reenact section forty-six-d, article two, chapter twenty of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to requiring a person hunting boar with a Class P license to additionally have a valid Class A, Class AB, Class X, Class A-L or Class AB-L license.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That section forty-six-d, article two, chapter twenty of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

ARTICLE 2. WILDLIFE RESOURCES.
§20-2-46d. Class P special resident boar hunting license; fee; authority of director to propose rules limiting the number of licenses issued.

A Class P license is a special resident boar hunting license for wild boar of either sex and entitles the licensee to hunt and kill boar during the Class P license season. A Class P license may be issued only to residents. Only one Class P license may be acquired during any calendar year in which a wild boar season is held and a Class P license may be used only by the applicant to whom such license is issued. The fee for a Class P license is five dollars.
The director shall promulgate rules governing the issuance of Class P licenses. The director may limit, on an equitable basis, the number of persons who may hunt wild boar in any county or any part of a county. The licenses shall be issued in a form prescribed by the director. A person hunting boar with a Class P license must additionally have a valid Class A, Class AB, Class X, Class A-L or Class AB-L license.