Bill Text: WV HB4258 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requiring the purchase by county commissions and display of POW/MIA flags at county courthouses
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 8-3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-23 - To House Political Subdivisions [HB4258 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2018-HB4258-Introduced.html
WEST virginia legislature
2018 regular session
Introduced
House Bill 4258
By Delegates Statler, Frich, Cooper, Pethtel, Fleischauer, Criss, deem, Hill, Martin, Hollen and Williams
[Introduced January 23,
2018; Referred
to the Committee on Political Subdivisions then Finance.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §7-3-2a of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to requiring the purchase by county commissions and display of POW/MIA flags at county courthouses.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
§7-3-2a. County commissions to purchase and display flags.
The county commission of every county of the state
shall purchase, out of its General Revenue Fund, a United States flag, and
a flag of the State of West Virginia, and a POW/MIA flag, four feet by
six feet in dimensions and of regulation bunting, or of other appropriate size
and quality, for its courthouse, and shall require the flags to be displayed
from the courthouse, or from an appropriate nearby staff or pole, every day
between the hours of sunrise and sunset, except in inclement weather. Each
county commission shall also purchase a United States flag and a flag of the
State of West Virginia and require the flags to be displayed at all times in
the circuit courtroom of the county. Each county and any municipality
therein may purchase a POW-MIA flag to be displayed from its courthouse or
other governmental building alongside the state flag and United States flag on
Memorial Day, Armed Forces Day, Flag Day, Independence Day, National POW/MIA
Recognition Day and Veteran's Day each year The custodian or other person
in charge of the courthouse shall display the flags as required by this
section.
Any United States flag, or flag of the State of
West Virginia, or and POW/MIA flag purchased out of the general
revenue of the county must be manufactured in the United States.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require the POW/MIA flag to be purchased by county commissions and displayed at county courthouses.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.