Source: http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB460%20SUB1.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=460
Timestamp: 2018-01-24 00:10:02
Document Index: 751125729

Matched Legal Cases: ['§15', '§19', '§20', '§15', '§19', '§20', '§19']

SB460 SUB1 Senate Bill 460 History
A BILL to amend and reenact §15-10-3 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; to amend and reenact §19-1A-4 of said code; and to amend and reenact §20-7-1 of said code, all relating to clarifying that Division of Forestry natural resources police officers are under the control and direction of the Director of the Division of Forestry; permitting the director to enter into memorandums of understanding with other law-enforcement agencies; and clarifying the duties of the director.
That §15-10-3 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted; that §19-1A-4 of said code be amended and reenacted; and that §20-7-1 of said code be amended and reenacted, all to read as follows:
(2) “Head of a law-enforcement agency” means the Superintendent of the State Police, the Director of the Division of Protective Services, the chief natural resources police officer of the Division of Natural Resources, a chief of police of an incorporated municipality or, a county sheriff or the Director of the Division of Forestry.
(3) “State or local law-enforcement officer” means any duly authorized member of a law-enforcement agency who is authorized to maintain public peace and order, prevent and detect crime, make arrests and enforce the laws of the state or any county or municipality thereof, other than parking ordinances, and includes those persons employed as campus police officers at state institutions of higher education in accordance with the provisions of section five, article four, chapter eighteen-b of this code, although those institutions may not be considered law-enforcement agencies. The term also includes those persons employed as rangers by the Hatfield-McCoy Regional Recreation Authority in accordance with the provisions of section six, article fourteen, chapter twenty of this code, although the authority is not a law-enforcement agency.
(3) Conduct research on marketing and developing forest products and forest products industries; conserving, managing, and utilizing the state’s forest land and its multiple uses; and
improving the forestry knowledge and practices of private landowners.
(1) Accept and use gifts, donations or contributions from individuals, organizations or corporations, and to acquire by gift, lease or purchase real estate.
(3) To promulgate rules and regulations, subject to the provisions of chapter twenty-nine-a of this code.
(b) Under the supervision of the director, the chief natural resources police officer shall organize, develop and maintain law-enforcement practices, means and methods geared, timed and adjustable to seasonal, emergency and other needs and requirements of the division’s comprehensive natural resources program. All division personnel detailed and assigned to law-enforcement duties and services under this section shall be known and designated as natural resources police officers and are under the immediate supervision and direction of the chief natural resources police officer except as otherwise provided. All natural resources police officers shall be trained, equipped and conditioned for duty and services wherever and whenever required by division law-enforcement needs.
(e) The chief natural resources police officer, acting under supervision of the Director of the Division of Forestry is also authorized to appoint and revoke Division of Forestry as special natural resources police officers any who are full-time civil service forest fire control personnel who have satisfactorily completed a course of training as required by the Director of the Division of Forestry. established and administered by the chief natural resources police officer. The jurisdiction of forest fire control full-time civil service personnel appointed as special natural resources police officers is limited to the enforcement of the provisions of article three of this chapter. The jurisdiction, powers and duties of Division of Forestry special natural resources police officers are set forth by the Director of the Division of Forestry pursuant to article three of this chapter, and articles one-a and one-b, chapter nineteen of this code.
(j) After June 30, 2010, all those full time law-enforcement officers employed by the Division of Natural Resources as conservation officers shall be titled and known as natural resources police officers. Wherever used in this code the term “conservation officer,” or its plural, means “natural resources police officer,” or its plural, respectively.
(NOTE: The purpose of this bill is transfer the supervision of special natural resources police officers working on forestry issues from the Division of Natural Resources to the Division of Forestry, where they are paid, housed and supervised. The bill also clarifies the jurisdiction of the Division of Forestry special natural resources police officers in the code and permits the director to enter into memorandums of understanding with other law- enforcement agencies.
§19-1A-4 is completely rewritten; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.)