Bill Text: WV HB2991 | 2021 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to sheriff’s commission for collection of taxes
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-09 - To House Judiciary [HB2991 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2021-HB2991-Introduced.html
WEST virginia legislature
2021 regular session
Introduced
House Bill 2991
By Delegates Brown, Lovejoy, Dean, Paynter, Zukoff and Boggs
[Introduced March 09, 2021; Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary]
A BILL to amend and reenact §11A-1-17 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to sheriff’s commission for collection of taxes and fixing the commission at $15,000 annually.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 1. ACCRUAL AND COLLECTION OF TAXES.
§11A-1-17. Sheriff's commission for collection.
After the sheriff has
collected 75% of the combined total of all taxes assessed on real and personal
property, he or she shall, in addition to the salary and compensation
now authorized by law, be allowed a commission as follows: Two and one-half
percent on the remainder of the taxes actually collected up to ninety percent
of the combined total of all taxes assessed on real and personal property,
three and one-half percent of the remainder collected above ninety percent and
up to ninety-five percent of the combined total of all taxes assessed on real
and personal property, and five percent on the remainder of taxes collected
above ninety-five percent of the combined total of all taxes assessed on real
and personal property. In all cases the taxes collected on which any commission
shall be paid will be exclusive of interest and charges thereon, if the
collection be made before the delinquent list has been approved by the county
commission: Provided, That the total amount of commissions paid to any
sheriff shall not exceed the sum of $15,000 in any one year annually.
The commission so allowed shall be determined by the county commission and
charged against the various funds for which the taxes are collected and
become a regular part of the budgeted and annual compensation of the sheriff
and paid in accordance with provisions of §7-7-9 of this code.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to clarify the sheriff’s commission compensation for the job duty of tax collector for the county and fix the amount at $15,000, annually.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.