Source: http://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB458%20SUB1%20enr2.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=458
Timestamp: 2018-02-25 20:42:40
Document Index: 571996374

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

Enrolled Version - Final Version (2) Senate Bill 458 History
SB458 SUB1 enr2
(Senators Laird, Fanning, D. Facemire, Williams, McCabe and Plymale, original sponsors )
AN ACT to amend and reenact §19-1B-3, §19-1B-4, §19-1B-5, §19-1B-7, §19-1B-11 and §19-1B-12a of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, all relating to updating the Logging Sediment Control Act; increasing licensure and certification fees; requiring the Division of Forestry to report certain information to the Tax Commissioner on a monthly basis; requiring the Director of the Division of Forestry to notify the Director of the Division of Water and Waste Management of the Department of Environmental Protection of licensure suspension or revocation within thirty days; modifying licensure and certification renewal and application procedures; revising certification training requirements; permitting the director the discretion to immediately suspend a timbering operator or operation, or any part of a timbering operation, in any part of the state; and requiring the Director of the Division of Forestry to convene a committee to review best management practices every five years.
(b) Exemptions.- A person who severs or removes, or hires or contracts with another to sever or remove, standing trees from his or her own land is exempted from the timbering operations licensure requirement of this section during any calendar year in which all trees severed or removed by or for this owner have an aggregate stumpage value that does not exceed $15,528. A person hired or contracted to sever or remove standing trees from the land of another is exempted from the timbering operations licensure requirement of this section during any calendar year in which all trees severed or removed by the hired or contracted person have an aggregate stumpage value that does not exceed $15,528.
(a) A person who knowingly or willingly commits one of the following violations is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than $250 and not more than $500 for each violation:
(1) Conducts timbering operations or purchases timber or buys logs for resale in this state without holding a valid license from the Director of the Division of Forestry, as required by section four of this article;
(4) Continues to conduct timbering operations in violation of an existing suspension or revocation order that has been issued by the Director of the Division of Forestry or a conference panel under sections five, ten or eleven of this article.
(b) For the purposes of this section, each day that a person conducts timbering operations in this state without a license as required by this article, without the supervision of a certified logger as required by this article, without providing notice of the location to the director as required by this article, or in violation of an outstanding suspension or revocation order shall constitute a separate offense.
(c) In addition to any other law-enforcement agencies that have jurisdiction over criminal violations, any forester or forest technician employed by the Division of Forestry, who, as a part of his or her official duties is authorized by the Director of the Division of Forestry to inspect timbering operations, is authorized to issue citations for any of the listed violations in this article that he or she has witnessed. The limited authority granted to employees of the Division of Forestry to issue citations to enforce the provisions of this section does not include the power to place any individual or person under arrest.