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SB 606 Text
Enrolled Version - Final Version Senate Bill 606 History
(By Senators Palumbo, Unger, Jenkins, Klempa and Foster)
AN ACT to amend and reenact §60A-7-706 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; and to amend said code by adding thereto six new sections, designated §61-8C-6, §61-8C-7, §61-8C-8, §61-8C-9, §61-8C-10 and §61-8C-11, all relating to forfeiture of certain property; correcting a technical error; stating legislative findings; providing for the forfeiture of certain materials related to recording sexually explicit conduct of minors or soliciting minors; establishing a procedure for seizure of forfeitable property; creating procedures for forfeiture; setting process for disposition and distribution of forfeited moneys, securities and negotiable instruments; and creating process for disposition and distribution of other forfeited properties.
That §60A-7-706 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted; and that said code be amended by adding thereto six new sections, designated §61-8C-6, §61-8C-7, §61-8C-8, §61-8C-9, §61-8C-10 and §61-8C-11, all to read as follows:
§60A-7-706. Disposition of forfeited moneys, securities or other negotiable instruments; distribution of proceeds.
(2) The balance shall be deposited in a special law-enforcement investigation fund. The fund may be placed in any interest-bearing depository insured by an agency of the federal government. The fund shall be administered by the chief of the law-enforcement agency that seized the forfeited property.
(b) No funds shall be expended from the special law-enforcement investigation fund except as follows:
(1) In the case of the funds belonging to the State Police, the funds shall only be expended at the direction of the Superintendent of the State Police and in accordance with the provisions of article two, chapter eleven-b of this code and the provisions of subdivision (10), subsection (b), section two, article two, chapter twelve of this code;
(4) All moneys, negotiable instruments, securities or other things of value furnished or intended to be furnished in violation of articles eight-a or eight-c of this chapter or section fourteen-b, article three-c of this chapter by any person in exchange for a visual depiction, all proceeds traceable to the exchange and all moneys, negotiable instruments and securities used, or which are intended to be used, to facilitate any violation of article eight-a or eight-c of this chapter or section fourteen-b, article three-c of this chapter: Provided, That no property may be forfeited under this subdivision, to the extent of the interest of an owner, by reason of any act or omission established by that owner to have been committed or omitted without his or her knowledge or consent; and
(a)(1) Any proceeding wherein the state seeks forfeiture of property subject to forfeiture under this article shall be a civil proceeding. A petition for forfeiture may be filed on behalf of the state and any law-enforcement agency making a seizure under this article by the prosecuting attorney of a county, or duly appointed special prosecutor.
(2) The balance shall be deposited in a special law-enforcement investigation fund. The fund may be placed in any interest-bearing depository insured by an agency of the federal government. The fund shall be administered by the Superintendent of the State Police or his or her designee.
(1) Title to the forfeited property be vested in the law-enforcement agency so petitioning;
(2) The balance shall be deposited in a special law-enforcement investigation fund. Such fund shall be administered by the Superintendent of the State Police or his or her designee and shall take the form of an interest-bearing account with any interest earned to be compounded to the fund. Any funds deposited in the special law-enforcement investigative fund pursuant to this article shall be expended only to defray the costs of protracted or complex investigations, to provide additional technical equipment or expertise, to provide matching funds to obtain federal grants or for such other law-enforcement purposes as the Superintendent of the State Police or his or her designee may deem appropriate; however, these funds may not be utilized for regular operating needs.