WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2021 THIRD EXTRAORDINARY session

Enrolled

Senate Bill 3029

By Senators Blair (Mr. President) and Baldwin
(By Request of the Executive)

[Passed October 14, 2021; in effect from passage]

AN ACT to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §51-1-23, relating to the creation of a Court Facilities Maintenance Fund; providing for administration of the fund; providing for moneys received by the fund; providing for the uses for the funds; providing for collections to be from rent and other payments; and providing for expenditures for specified purposes in accordance with legislative appropriation.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 1. SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS.

§51-1-23 Court Facilities Maintenance Fund created.

(a) There is created within the State Treasury a special revenue fund designated the Court Facilities Maintenance Fund to be administered by the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.

(b) The fund shall consist of moneys received from rent or other payments from tenants leasing space owned by the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

(c) All moneys deposited into the State Treasury and credited to the Court Facilities Maintenance Fund shall be used to offset the cost to maintain property owned by the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

(d) All moneys collected by the administrator of the Supreme Court of Appeals from rent or other payments from tenants leasing space owned by the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia shall be deposited into the Court Facilities Maintenance Fund. Expenditures from the fund shall be for the purposes set forth in subsection (c) of this section and are not authorized from collections but are to be made only in accordance with appropriation by the Legislature in accordance with §12-3-1 et seq. of this code and upon fulfillment of the requirements of §11B-2-1 et seq. of this code.