Bill Text: WV HB124 | 2023 | 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishing Summersville Lake State Park
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-08-28 - Chapter 34, Acts, 1st Extraordinary Session, 2023 [HB124 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2023-HB124-Introduced.html
WEST virginia legislature
2023 FIRST EXTRAORDINARY session
Introduced
House Bill 124
By Delegates Hanshaw (Mr. Speaker), Skaff, Hanna and Tully
(By Request Of The Executive)
[Introduced August 6, 2023]
A BILL to amend §20-1-19 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to establishing Summersville Lake State Park.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 1. ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION.
§20-1-19. West Virginia state parks and state forests.
(a) The state parks of West Virginia are:
(1) Audra; (2) Babcock; (3) Beartown; (4) Beech Fork; (5) Berkeley Springs; (6) Blackwater Falls; (7) Blennerhassett Island Historical; (8) Bluestone; (9) Cacapon Resort; (10) Camp Creek; (11) Canaan Valley Resort; (12) Carnifex Ferry Battlefield; (13) Cass Scenic Railroad; (14) Cathedral; (15) Cedar Creek; (16) Chief Logan; (17) Droop Mountain Battlefield; (18) Fairfax Stone Historical Monument; (19) Hawks Nest; (20) Holly River; (21) Little Beaver; (22) Lost River; (23) Moncove Lake; (24) North Bend; (25) Pinnacle Rock; (26) Pipestem Resort; (27) Prickett’s Fort; (28) Stonewall Resort; (29) Summersville Lake; (30) Tomlinson Run; (30) (31) Tu-Endie-Wei (Point Pleasant Battle Monument); (31) (32) Twin Falls Resort; (32) (33) Tygart Lake; (33) (34) Valley Falls; (34) (35) Watoga; and (35) (36) Watters Smith Memorial.
(b) The state forests of West Virginia are:
(1) Cabwaylingo; (2) Calvin Price; (3) Camp Creek; (4) Coopers Rock; (5) Greenbrier; (6) Kanawha; (7) Kumbrabow; (8) Panther Forest/WMA, consisting of approximately twenty-six acres containing park facilities; and (9) Seneca.
(c) Neither the director nor any officer, employee or agent of the Division of Natural Resources may close, change the name or the designated use of a state park or state forest without statutory authorization.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to establish Summersville Lake State Park.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.