Source: http://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2013/rs/floor_amends/HB2760%20HJUD%20FBM%203-11.htm
Timestamp: 2018-01-17 18:31:55
Document Index: 398465755

Matched Legal Cases: ['§22', '§61', '§8', '§61', '§61', '§61', '§8', '§22']

SPONSORS: Delegates R. Phillips, Eldridge, Miley, Boggs, White, Marcum, Stowers, O’Neal, Hartman, Hamilton, and Tomblin.
Even after the adoption of the constitutional amendment, the WV Supreme Court of Appeals recognized that the West Virginia legislature may, through the valid exercise of its police power, reasonably regulate the right of a person to keep and bear arms in order to promote the health, safety and welfare of all citizens of the state, provided that the restrictions or regulations imposed do not frustrate the constitutional freedoms guaranteed Article III, §22 of the WV Constitution, known as the “Right to Keep and Bear Arms Amendment”.
The State of West Virginia has adopted certain statewide provisions and restrictions which impact an individual’s right to carry a gun in certain settings. West Virginia Code §61-7-11a, prohibits the carrying of handguns and other deadly weapons at court houses, family law masters offices, magistrates offices, primary and secondary school property and school buses; any facility being used for a primary or secondary school function while that function is occurring, any vocational educational buildings, regional jails, detention facilities, Division of Corrections facilities and their grounds.
In WVCDL v. City of Martinsburg, et al., pending before the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia, the Citizens Defense League has asserted the City of Martinsburg’s ordinance is contrary to the provisions and limitations of WV Code §8-12-5a, and violates the rights of citizens under the United States Constitution and Article III, Section 23 of the West Virginia Constitution.
D. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ADOPTED COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE AND ORIGINAL BILL: The adopted Committee Substitute made technical corrections, and one addition for clarification. Three separate references to “section” in Code §§61-7B-2, 61-7B-3 and 61-7B-4 were corrected to read “article”, and duplicative language in §61-7B-6 was deleted. Additional language was added tp §61-7B-6 to clarify the impact of repealing WV Code §8-12-5a, and the associated repeal of its provisions which had grandfathered preexisting municipal ordinances. The effect of the added language provides that, as of the date this legislation becomes effective, any previously grandfathered ordinance provisions would be null and void, to the extent they are contrary with the generally applicable state standards or the provisions of Article 61-7B.
2. A political subdivisions’s authority to regulate firearms, ammunition or firearms accessories may not be inferred from the political subdivision’s proprietary authority, home rule status or any other inherent or general power.
1. Any person who is adversely affected by a municipal or county ordinance enacted or enforced in violation of this “section” (sic- should be “article”) has the right to file suit in an appropriate court for declarative and injunctive relief, and to recover any actual and consequential damages attributable to the violation.
(b) An employer may regulate and prohibit an employee’s carrying or possession of firearms, firearm accessories or ammunition during and in the course of the employee’s official duties;
The West Virginia legislature may, through the valid exercise of its police power, reasonably regulate the right of a person to keep and bear arms in order to promote the health, safety and welfare of all citizens of the state, provided that the restrictions or regulations imposed do not frustrate the constitutional freedoms guaranteed by Article III, §22 of the WV Constitution, known as the “Right to Keep and Bear Arms Amendment”. See State ex rel. City of Princeton v. Buckner, 180 W.Va. 457, 377 S.E.2d 139 (1988); State ex rel. W.Va. Div. Of Natural Resources v. Cline, 488 S.E. 2d 376 (WV 1997).