West Virginia SB 112: Clarifying that natural resources police officers' subsistence allowance is pensionable

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WEST virginia Legislature

2018 regular session

Introduced

Senate Bill 112

By Senators Trump and Boso

[Introduced January 
10, 2018; Referred

to the Committee on Natural Resources; and then to the Committee on Pensions]

A BILL to amend and 
reenact §20-7-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to natural 
resources police officers; finding that the administrative and law-enforcement 
activities of the natural resources police officers are important to the 
state’s conservation of fish and wildlife; and clarifying that the subsistence 
allowance is pensionable.

Be it enacted by the 
Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 7. Law-enforcement, 
motorboating, litter.

§20-7-1. Chief natural resources police officer; 
natural resources police officers; special and emergency natural resources 
police officers; subsistence allowance; expenses.

(a) The division’s law-enforcement policies, practices, 
and programs are under the immediate supervision and direction of the division 
law-enforcement officer selected by the director and designated as chief 
natural resources police officer as provided in §20-1-13 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. The chief natural 
resources police officer may also assign natural resources police officers to 
perform law-enforcement duties on any trail, grounds, appurtenant facility, or 
other areas accessible to the public within the Hatfield-McCoy Recreation Area, 
under agreement that the Hatfield-McCoy Regional Recreation Authority, created 
pursuant to article fourteen of this chapter, shall reimburse the division for 
salaries paid to the officers and shall either pay directly or reimburse the 
division for all other expenses of the officers in accordance with actual or 
estimated costs determined by the chief natural resources police officer.

(c) The chief natural resources police officer, acting 
under supervision of the director, is authorized to select and appoint 
emergency natural resources police officers for a limited period for effective 
enforcement of the provisions of this chapter when considered necessary because 
of emergency or other unusual circumstances. The emergency natural resources 
police officers shall be selected from qualified civil service personnel of the 
division, except in emergency situations and circumstances when the director 
may designate officers, without regard to civil service requirements and 
qualifications, to meet law-enforcement needs. Emergency natural resources 
police officers shall exercise all powers and duties prescribed in §20-7-4 of 
this code for full-time salaried natural resources police officers except the 
provisions of §20-7-4(b)(8) of this code.

(d) The chief natural resources police officer, acting 
under supervision of the director, is also authorized to select and appoint as 
special natural resources police officers any full-time civil service employee 
who is assigned to, and has direct responsibility for management of, an