
ENROLLED
Senate Bill No. 722
(By
Senators Helmick, Mitchell, Anderson, Bowman, Love, Minard, Plymale,
Prezioso, Ross, Rowe and Snyder
)
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[Passed March 9, 2002; in effect ninety days from passage.]
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AN ACT to amend and reenact section forty-six-m, article two,
chapter twenty of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine
hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to Class XJ junior
sportsman's hunting, fishing and trapping licenses for
residents fifteen to eighteen years old and nonresidents
under
the age of fifteen.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section forty-six-m, 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.
§20-2-46m. Class XJ junior sportsman's hunting, fishing and
trapping license.
(a) On or after the first day of January, two thousand three,
a Class XJ license shall be a junior sportsman's hunting, fishing
and trapping license and shall entitle the licensee to hunt and
trap for all legal species of wild animals and wild birds, to fish for all legal species of fish and to take frogs in all counties of
the state, except as prohibited by the rules of the director or
when additional licenses and permits are required.
No additional fees shall be required of Class XJ licensees for
a Class I, U, UU, V, VV, W, or WW license or for the resident
conservation stamp required by section nine, article two-b of this
chapter in order for the Class XJ licensee to participate in the
seasons for which said licenses are required. Trout fishing is not
permitted with a Class XJ license unless said licensee possesses a
valid Class O trout license.
(b) The Class XJ license may be issued to:
(1) A resident of this state who has not reached his or her
eighteenth birthday and is otherwise required by section twenty-
seven of this article to purchase a license; or
(2) A nonresident of this state who has not reached his or her
fifteenth birthday and is at least eight years old and is otherwise
required by section twenty-seven of this article to purchase a
license.
(c)(1) The fee charged to a resident for the Class XJ license
shall be fifteen dollars, of which three dollars shall be
designated as conservation stamp revenue and expended pursuant to
section nine, article two-b of this chapter.
(2) The fee charged to a nonresident for the Class XJ license
shall be fifteen dollars. In addition to paying the XJ license
fee, a nonresident applicant must purchase a conservation stamp for
the fee required of a nonresident in section nine, article two-b of this chapter, and a law-enforcement and sports education stamp for
the fee required of a nonresident in section ten, article two-b of
this chapter.