SB2679 S JUD AMT

Smith 7980

The Committee on the Judiciary moved to amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting therefor a new title, to read as follows:

Eng. Com. Sub. for House Bill 2679–A Bill to repeal §20-2-19a of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; to amend and reenact §7-11-5 of said code; to amend and reenact §20-2-5, §20-2-42g and §20-2-42h, all relating to firearms and hunting generally; eliminating authority for trappers to carry certain firearms on Sundays while checking traps; prohibiting county parks and recreation commissions from promulgating or enforcing rules which prohibit possession of firearms in parks; updating antiquated language; allowing the carrying of an uncased or loaded long firearm in the woods of this state and state parks, state forests, state wildlife management areas or state rail trails; excepting recreation facilities therein from areas where uncased or loaded long guns may be possessed; providing exceptions to the prohibition for self-defense purposes; eliminating local option election regarding to hunting on private land on Sundays; permitting Sunday hunting on private land with written permission of the owner of an authorized agent of the owner; clarifying that hunting on public land on Sundays after five o’clock ante meridian is illegal; superseding ballot measures in elections prior to the effective date of legislation making Sunday hunting on private land lawful with the written permission of the landowner or an authorized agent thereof; creating the misdemeanor offense of catching, taking, or killing of fish within two hundred feet of Division of Natural Resources personnel engaged in stocking fish in public waters; and establishing criminal penalties.