Bill Text: WV HB4667 | 2022 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibition on county, city, or municipality restrictions on advanced air mobility aircraft

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-04-19 - Chapter 44, Acts, Regular Session, 2022 [HB4667 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2022-HB4667-Introduced.html

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WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2022 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

House Bill 4667

By Delegates Howell, Hanshaw (Mr. Speaker), and Summers

[Introduced February 14, 2022; Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary]

A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §61-16-3, relating generally to creating a prohibition on county, municipality, city or town restrictions on advanced air mobility aircraft.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 16. use of unmanned aircraft systems.

§61-16-3. Counties, municipalities, cities and towns prohibited from enacting restrictions upon advanced air mobility aircraft.

(a) Except as authorized by law, a county, city, village, or township shall not enact or adopt an ordinance, policy, or rule that relates to the ownership or operation of an advanced air mobility aircraft or advanced air mobility and shall not otherwise engage in the regulation or ownership of an advanced air mobility aircraft or advanced air mobility. Any ordinance, policy, or rule that violates this subsection, whether enacted or adopted by the county, municipality, city or town before or after the effective date of this section, is void.

(b) As used in this section, "advanced air mobility" means a system that transports people and property by air between points in the United States using aircraft, including electric aircraft and electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, in both controlled and uncontrolled airspace.

NOTE: This bill relates to prohibiting counties, municipalities, cities and towns from enacting restrictions upon advanced air mobility aircraft.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.