Bill Text: WV HB4665 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Creating a mandatory grace period for the payment of water and sewer bills
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-22 - To House Political Subdivisions [HB4665 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2016-HB4665-Introduced.html
WEST virginia Legislature
2016 regular session
Introduced
House Bill 4665
By Delegates Hartman, Sponaugle, Campbell, Perry and Lynch
[Introduced February 22,
2016; Referred
to the Committee on Political Subdivisions then Government Organization.]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §24-3-11, relating to creating a mandatory grace period for the payment of water and sewer bills.
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 §24-3-11, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 3. DUTIES AND PRIVILEGES OF PUBLIC UTILITIES SUBJECT TO REGULATIONS OF COMMISSION.
§24-3-11. Grace period for payment of water and sewer bills.
Any water or sewer facility which is owned or operated by a public or private utility, city, incorporated town, municipal corporation or public service district shall give every customer a thirty-day grace period for payment of the customer’s water and sewer bill before charging a late fee.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require water and sewer facilities to give every customer a thirty-day grace period for payment of their bill before instituting a late fee.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
