WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2025 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced
House Bill 3128
By Delegate Kelly
[Introduced March 04, 2025; referred to the Committee on the Judiciary]
A BILL to amend and reenact §30-29-13 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to municipal chief executive requirements; and clarifying that persons elected as municipal police chiefs shall be certified law-enforcement officers.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
## ARTICLE 29. LAW-ENFORCEMENT TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION.
Notwithstanding any provision of this code to the contrary, on or after July 1, 2018, any person elected or appointed to serve as the chief executive of a municipal law-enforcement agency shall be a certified, or certifiable as, a law-enforcement officer as provided in §30-29-5 of this code: Provided, That chief executives of municipal law-enforcement agencies employed prior to July 1, 2018, who are not certified law-enforcement officers are exempt from this requirement for purposes of the position he or she holds as of that date.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to clarify that elected municipal police chiefs shall be certified law-enforcement officers.
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