Bill Text: WV HB3210 | 2023 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the performance of installation of propane gas systems
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-01 - Chapter 285, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 [HB3210 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2023-HB3210-Enrolled.html
WEST virginia legislature
2023 regular session
ENROLLED
Committee Substitute
for
House Bill 3210
By Delegates Phillips, Horst, Crouse and Thorne
[Passed March 2, 2023; in effect ninety days from passage.]
AN ACT to amend and reenact §15A-10-15 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to the performance of installation of propane gas systems; providing definitions; and creating certain prohibitions related to liquefied petroleum containers without consent of the owner.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 10. FIRE MARSHAL.
§15A-10-15. Performance of installation of propane gas systems.
(a) Notwithstanding any statutory or regulatory provisions to the contrary, any person who installs, fuels, maintains, or services any fuel gas system to a one- or two-family dwelling shall comply with rules promulgated by the Fire Commission relating to fuel gas systems.
(b) This section does not apply to any person who performs this work on a single-family dwelling, owned or leased, and occupied by that person. The personal exemption provided in this subsection is the same as the personal exemption provided in §29-3D-1, et seq. of this code.
(c) Use of, refilling of, or work upon a liquefied petroleum gas container without the consent of the tank owner is prohibited.
(d) No person shall sell, install, fill, refill, deliver or permit to be delivered, or use in any manner any liquefied petroleum gas container unless the container is owned by the person, or its use is authorized by its owner.
(e) For purposes of this section "Liquefied petroleum gas" means propane and or predominantly a mixture of propane and butane.
The Clerk of the House of Delegates and the Clerk of the Senate hereby certify that the foregoing bill is correctly enrolled.
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Clerk of the House of Delegates
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Clerk of the Senate
Originated in the House of Delegates.
In effect ninety days from passage.
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Speaker of the House of Delegates
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President of the Senate
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Governor
