Senate Bill No. 563
(By Senator Bailey)
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[Introduced March 22, 2001; referred to the Committee on
Government Organization; and then to the Committee on Finance.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact section three, article one, chapter
twenty of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred
thirty-one, as amended, relating to renaming the division of
natural resources the division of wildlife, recreation and
parks.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section three, article one, 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 1. ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION.
§20-1-3. Division of natural resources, office of director and
commission established; renaming division; termination
date for division of natural resources and for parks section of division of natural resources.
A division of natural resources, the office of director of the
division of natural resources and a natural resources commission
are hereby created and established in the state government with
jurisdiction, powers, functions, services and enforcement processes
as provided in this chapter and elsewhere by law.
On the first day of July, two thousand one, the division of
natural resources shall be renamed the division of wildlife,
recreation and parks, and thereafter, wherever the term "Division
of Natural Resources" is used in this code it means "Division of
Wildlife, Recreation and Parks."
Pursuant to the provisions of article ten, chapter four of
this code, the division of natural resources shall continue to
exist until the first day of July, two thousand one.
Pursuant to the provisions of article ten, chapter four of
this code, the parks section and parks functions of the division of
natural resources, transferred to the division of natural resources
pursuant to the provisions of section twelve, article one, chapter
five-b of this code, shall continue to exist within the division of
natural resources until the first day of July, two thousand two.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is
to rename the Division of
Natural Resources the Division of Wildlife, Recreation and Parks.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.