Bill Text: WV SB83 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Limiting landowner's liability for injuries occurring on property while hunting
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-13 - To Natural Resources [SB83 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2011-SB83-Introduced.html
A BILL to amend and reenact §19-25-2 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to limiting a landowner from civil liability for injuries that may occur to a person or property on the landowner's property or surrounding property caused while hunting.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §19-25-2 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 25. LIMITING LIABILITY OF LANDOWNERS.
§19-25-2. Limiting duty of landowner generally.
(a) Subject to the provisions of section four of this article, an owner of land owes no duty of care to keep the premises safe for entry or use by others for recreational or wildlife propagation purposes, or to give any warning of a dangerous or hazardous condition, use, structure or activity on such premises to persons entering for such purposes.
(b) Subject to the provisions of
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to limit the landowner from civil liability for injuries that may occur to person or property on the landowner's property or surrounding property caused while hunting.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.