ENROLLED

Senate Bill No. 387

(By Senators Prezioso, Oliverio, Minard, Stollings, Kessler, Unger and Hunter)

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[Passed March 6, 2007; in effect ninety days from passage.]

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AN ACT to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §24F-1-3a, relating to the opportunity to install certain deceased veterans' grave markers.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
 That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §24F-1-3a, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 1. VETERANS' GRAVE MARKERS.

 §24F-1-3a. Setting of Department of Veterans' Affairs' grave
markers by cemeteries and companies that set and
install memorial monument markers.
All cemeteries, cemetery associations, cemetery companies and perpetual care cemetery companies, irrespective of how each may be defined in articles five, five-a and five-b, chapter thirty-five of this code, and companies that set and install memorial monument markers shall not deny a person or entity the opportunity for installation and maintenance of United States Department of Veterans' Affairs' grave markers at the graves of deceased United States armed forces veterans for the total charges authorized by section two of this article.