H. B. 2946


(By Delegates Yeager, Williams and Stemple)

[Introduced March 21, 2001; referred to the

Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources then Finance.]





A BILL 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 shall be is a special resident boar hunting license for wild boar of either sex and shall entitle entitles the licensee to hunt and kill such 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 shall be is five dollars.
The director shall promulgate propose rules and regulations for legislative approval in accordance with the provisions of article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code governing the issuance of Class P licenses. The director he deems necessary to may limit, on a fair and 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.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.