Source: http://www.wvlegislature.gov/bill_status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4188%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2010&sesstype=RS&i=4188
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HB4188 SUB ENR
AN ACT to amend and reenact §30-29-3 and §30-29-10 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, and to further amend said code by adding thereto a new article, designated §61-13-1, §61-13-2, §61-13-3, §61-13-4, §61-13-5 and §61-13-6, all relating to requiring an organized criminal organization investigation component with accompanying anti-racial profiling education and training for law enforcement; creating anti-organized criminal enterprise act; authorizing rulemaking, including emergency rules; creating timetable for developing procedures and rules; creating offenses of being a member of an organized criminal enterprise; criminalizing witness intimidation in organized criminal enterprise prosecutions; establish qualifying offenses; creating the offense of soliciting or inviting membership in an organized criminal enterprise; making premises used by organized criminal enterprises subject to public nuisance laws; allowing for forfeiture of property used for or obtained through organized criminal enterprises; establishing exempted activities; offenses; and penalties.
That §30-29-3 and §30-29-10 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted, and that said code be further amended by adding thereto a new article, designated article §61-13-1, §61-13-2, §61-13-3, §61-13-4, §61-13-5 and §61-13-6, all to read as follows:
(f) Promulgate standards governing the qualification of law-enforcement officers and the entry-level law-enforcement training curricula. These standards shall require satisfactory completion of a minimum of four hundred classroom hours, shall provide for credit to be given for relevant classroom hours earned pursuant to training other than training at an established law-enforcement training academy if earned within five years immediately preceding the date of application for certification, and shall provide that the required classroom hours can be accumulated on the basis of a part-time curricula spanning no more than twelve months, or a full- time curricula;
(k) Certify law-enforcement officers, as provided in section five of this article;
(l) Seek supplemental funding for law-enforcement training academies from sources other than the fees collected pursuant to section four of this article;
(m) Any responsibilities and duties as the Legislature may, from time to time, see fit to direct to the committee; and
(n) Submit, on or before September 30 of each year, to the Governor, and upon request to individual members of the Legislature, a report on its activities during the previous year and an accounting of funds paid into and disbursed from the special revenue account establish pursuant to section four of this article.
"Qualifying offense" means a violation of the felony provisions of section eleven, article forty-one, chapter thirty- three of this code; the felony provisions of chapter 60A of this code; the felony provisions of article two of this chapter; the provisions of sections one, two, three, four, five, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty-four, twenty-four-a, twenty-four-b and twenty-four-d, article three of this chapter; the felony provisions of sections article three-c of this chapter; the felony provisions of article three-e of this chapter; the felony provisions of article four of this chapter; the provisions of section eight, article eight of this chapter; the felony provisions of article eight-a of this chapter and the felony provisions of article eight-c of this chapter.
(b) Any person who knowingly solicits, invites, recruits, encourages or causes another to become a member of an organized criminal enterprise or to assist members of an organized criminal enterprise to aid or assist in the commission of a qualifying offense by one or more members of an organized criminal enterprise shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, be confined in a state correctional facility for not more than five years or fined not more than $10,000, or both.
(a) Every private building or place used by members of an organized criminal enterprise for the commission of qualifying offenses is a nuisance and may be the subject of an injunction or cause of action for damages or for abatement of the nuisance as provided for an article nine of this chapter.
(b) In any action under this section, the court may
enter such restraining orders or take other appropriate action, including acceptance of performance bonds, in connection with any interest that is subject to forfeiture.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent lawful assembly and petition for the lawful redress of grievances, including, but not limited to: any labor or employment relations issue; demonstration at the seat of federal, state, county, or municipal government; or activities protected by the West Virginia Constitution or the United States Constitution or any statute of this state or the United States.