ENROLLED

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE

FOR

H. B. 4456

( By Delegates Stemple, Poling, Varner and Pethtel)



[Passed March 11, 2006; in effect ninety days from passage.]


AN ACT to amend and reenact §20-2-20 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to beaver trapping; removing limitations on numbers and location of traps; allowing disturbance of structures constructed by beavers when trapping; and removing certain duties for persons who unintentionally trap or kill beavers.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §20-2-20 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2. WILDLIFE RESOURCES.
§20-2-20. Trapping beaver.
A person may not have in his possession an untagged beaver hide, or part thereof, within the period beginning thirty days after the end of the open season and ending with the first day of the next succeeding open season for beavers.