Bill Text: WV SB508 | 2022 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Requiring certain attire for deer hunters with muzzleloaders

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)

Status: (Passed) 2022-04-20 - Chapter 193, Acts, Regular Session, 2022 [SB508 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2022-SB508-Enrolled.html

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WEST virginia legislature

2022 regular session

ENROLLED

Committee Substitute

for

Senate Bill 508

By Senators Hamilton, Stover, Martin, Sypolt, Lindsay, and Beach

[Passed March 09, 2022; in effect 90 days from passage]

 

 

AN ACT to amend and reenact §20-2-60 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to requiring daylight fluorescent orange attire for deer hunters hunting with a muzzleloader; creating misdemeanor offense for violation; and penalty.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

§20-2-60. Required attire for deer hunters; exemption; penalty.

Any person who hunts deer on public lands or the lands of another during the period designated for firearms hunting of deer or muzzleloader hunting of deer shall wear a daylight fluorescent orange outer garment over at least 400 square inches of his or her person: Provided, That persons engaged in agricultural occupations shall be exempt from the provisions of this section while hunting deer on their own property. Any person violating any provision of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than $5 nor more than $50.