COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE

FOR


Senate Bill No. 365

(By Senator Rowe)

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[Originating in the Committee on Government Organization;

reported February 24, 2003.]

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A BILL to amend article twenty-two, chapter thirty of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section five-a, relating to board of landscape architects; and authorizing the board to set fees by rule.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article twenty-two, chapter thirty of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section five-a, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 22. LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS.
§30-22-5a. Fees.
(a) The board is authorized to set all fees imposed by the board by rule, proposed for legislative approval in accordance with the provisions of article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code.
(b) The fees imposed on the first day of July, two thousand two, shall remain in effect until the new fees have been set in rule. No emergency rule may be proposed.
(c) After the new fees have been set by rule, the fees specifically set out in this article shall no longer apply.




NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide that the board of landscape architects set fees by rule.


Section five-a is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.