ENROLLED

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE

FOR

H. B. 2663

(By Delegate Shook )


[Passed March 12, 2010; in effect ninety days from passage.]



AN ACT to amend and reenact §8-14-5a of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to expanding the power of municipal parking authority officers to ticket for municipal parking violations.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §8-14-5a of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 14. LAW AND ORDER; POLICE FORCE OR DEPARTMENTS; ETC.
§8-14-5a. Parking enforcement officers.
(a) A municipality or parking authority created by a municipality may employ parking enforcement officers, whose sole duties are to patrol and to enforce municipal parking ordinances upon or within designated municipal parking areas and upon municipal streets. Parking enforcement officers may sign complaints and issue citations.
(b) Parking enforcement officers shall:
(1) Be in uniform;
(2) Display a badge or other sign of authority; and
(3) Serve at the will and pleasure of their employer.
(c) The governing body of the municipality may require the parking enforcement officers to give a surety bond, payable to the municipality. The governing body shall set the amount of the bond conditioned for the faithful performance of their duties. . Nothing in this section may be construed to mean that parking enforcement officers come within the civil service provisions of this article or the policemen's pension and relief fund provisions of article twenty-two of this chapter.