COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 420
(By Senators Minard, Fanning and Sharpe)
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[Originating in the Committee on Government Organization;
reported February 22, 2007.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact §7-7-2 of the Code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, relating to county in-service training
program; transferring certain county in-service training
programs from the State Tax Commissioner to the Auditor and
Supreme Court of Appeals; and deleting obsolete language.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §7-7-2 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be
amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 7. COMPENSATION OF ELECTED COUNTY OFFICIALS.
§7-7-2. County in-service training programs; further additional
duties for prosecuting attorney in any county in excess of two
hundred thousand.
(a) There is hereby established The county in-service training
programs as hereinafter set forth are continued.
(b) The Attorney General is hereby authorized and directed to
establish such in-service training programs as in his opinion will do most provided by the Attorney General to assist the prosecuting
attorneys in the performance of their duties are continued. The
Attorney General is authorized to may accept any federal aid which
may be made available or any financial assistance which may be
available from any private nonprofit organization for the purposes
of this section. The prosecuting attorney in any county having a
population in excess of two hundred thousand shall also discharge
the additional duties imposed upon him or her by the provisions of
section thirteen-a, article five, chapter forty-nine of this code.
(c) The state Tax Commissioner State Auditor is hereby
authorized and directed to establish such provide in-service
training programs for county commissioners, county clerks, circuit
clerks, assessors, sheriffs and their assistants and employees as
in his or her opinion will do the most to modernize and improve the
services of their respective offices.
(d) The State Tax Commissioner is authorized to provide in-
service training programs for assessors and their assistants and
employees as in his or her opinion will do the most to modernize
and improve the services of the assessor's office.
(e) The Supreme Court of Appeals is authorized to provide in-
service training programs for circuit clerks as in its opinion will
do the most to modernize and improve the services of the circuit
clerks' offices.
(f) The State Tax Commissioner is, the State Auditor and the
Supreme Court of Appeals are authorized to accept any federal aid
which may be made available or any financial assistance which may
be available from any private nonprofit organization for the
purpose of this article section.
(g) Each of the county officials mentioned in this section,
and, at his or her option, one or more of his or her assistants,
deputies and employees, shall participate in the programs
established under this section.
(h) The county court commission is authorized and directed to
expend funds for the purpose of reimbursing such the officials and
employees for the actual amount expended by them for food, lodging
and registration while in attendance at meetings called in-service
training pursuant to the provisions of this section, provided by
the Attorney General, the State Auditor, or the State Tax
Commissioner, or the Supreme Court of Appeals. for the purpose of
this section, not to exceed thirty-five dollars per day, with
mileage not to exceed the rate of ten cents per mile to be computed
according to the distance by the nearest practicable route for
travel to and from such meetings.