Senate Bill No. 729
(By Senators Jenkins and Plymale)
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[Introduced February 19, 2007; referred to the Committee on the
Judiciary.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact §64-6-1 the Code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, relating
to amending the Fire Commission
rule adopting the State Fire Code
; and limiting the exemption
given to buildings used wholly as dwelling houses for no more
than two families to those buildings only when owner occupied.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §64-6-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 6. AUTHORIZATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY AFFAIRS AND
PUBLIC SAFETY TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.
§64-6-1. Fire commission.
The legislative rule contained in title eighty-seven, series
one, and filed in the state register on the twenty-third day of
April, two thousand two, under the authority of section five, article three, chapter twenty-nine of this code,
relating to the
Fire Commission (State Fire Code, 87 CSR 1)
is reauthorized with
the following amendment:
On page one, section one, subsection 1.5, by inserting before
the word "buildings" the words "owner-occupied".
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to amend the Fire Commission
Rule adopting the Fire Code. The bill limits the exemption given
to buildings used wholly as dwelling houses for no more than two
families to those buildings only when owner-occupied.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.