COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
H. B. 2266
(By Delegates Mezzatesta and Stemple)
(Originating in the Committee on Veterans Affairs and
Homeland
Security)
[February 6, 2003]
A BILL to amend and reenact section three, article ten, chapter
fifteen of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine
hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to cooperation
between law-enforcement agencies generally, including the
state fire marshal and deputy and assistant fire marshals
within the definition of criminal justice enforcement
personnel for the purpose of authorizing the state fire
marshal and deputy and assistant fire marshals to cooperate
and assist other law-enforcement agencies.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section three, article ten, chapter fifteen of the code
of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 10. COOPERATION BETWEEN LAW-ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES.
§15-10-3. Definitions.
In this article, unless a different meaning plainly is
required:
(1) "Criminal justice enforcement personnel" means those
persons within the state criminal justice system who are actually
employed as members of the
division of public safety West Virginia
state police, members of the division of protective services, state
conservation officers,
the state fire marshal and deputy and
assistant fire marshals, chiefs of police and police of
incorporated municipalities, and county sheriffs and their
deputies, and whose primary duties are the investigation of crime
and the apprehension of criminals.
(2) "Head of a law-enforcement agency" means the
superintendent of the
division of public safety West Virginia state
police, the director of the division of protective services, the
chief conservation officer of the division of natural resources,
the state fire marshal, a chief of police of an incorporated
municipality or a county sheriff.