WEST virginia legislature
2016 regular session
Introduced
Senate Bill 122
[Introduced January 13,
2016;
Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources; and then to the Committee on
the Judiciary.]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as
amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §20-1-7a, relating to
right of nonprohibited persons to carry firearms for self defense or defense of
others in state parks and certain other areas.
Be it enacted
by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West
Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section,
designated §20-1-7a, to read as follows:
Article 1. Organization
and administration.
§20-1-7a. When
firearms permitted to be carried in state parks, state forests, recreation
areas in state wildlife management areas and on state trails.
A person not
under the age of twenty-one or not otherwise prohibited from possessing a
firearm pursuant to section seven, article seven, chapter sixty-one of this
code or by applicable federal law, may carry firearms for self defense, or
defense of others, in state parks, state forests, recreation areas in state
wildlife management areas and state trails under management of the Division of
Natural Resources.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is
to permit nonprohibited persons to carry firearms for defense purposes in state
parks and certain other lands and trails managed by the Division of Natural
Resources.
Strike-throughs indicate language
that would be stricken from a heading or the present law, and underscoring indicates
new language that would be added.