WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2023 FIRST EXTRAORDINARY SESSION
Introduced Senate Bill 1024
By Senators Blair (Mr. President) and Woelfel [By Request of the Executive]
[Introduced August 6, 2023]
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1 A BILL to amend §20-1-19 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to
2 establishing Summersville Lake State Park.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 1. ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION.
§20-1-19. West Virginia state parks and state forests.
1 (a) The state parks of West Virginia are:
2 (1) Audra; (2) Babcock; (3) Beartown; (4) Beech Fork; (5) Berkeley Springs; (6) Blackwater
3 Falls; (7) Blennerhassett Island Historical; (8) Bluestone; (9) Cacapon Resort; (10) Camp Creek;
4 (11) Canaan Valley Resort; (12) Carnifex Ferry Battlefield; (13) Cass Scenic Railroad; (14)
5 Cathedral; (15) Cedar Creek; (16) Chief Logan; (17) Droop Mountain Battlefield; (18) Fairfax
6 Stone Historical Monument; (19) Hawks Nest; (20) Holly River; (21) Little Beaver; (22) Lost River;
7 (23) Moncove Lake; (24) North Bend; (25) Pinnacle Rock; (26) Pipestem Resort; (27) Prickett's
8 Fort; (28) Stonewall Resort; (29) Summersville Lake; (30) Tomlinson Run; (30) (31) Tu-Endie-Wei
9 (Point Pleasant Battle Monument); (31) (32) Twin Falls Resort; (32) (33) Tygart Lake; (33) (34)
10 Valley Falls; (34) (35) Watoga; and (35) (36) Watters Smith Memorial.
11 (b) The state forests of West Virginia are:
12 (1) Cabwaylingo; (2) Calvin Price; (3) Camp Creek; (4) Coopers Rock; (5) Greenbrier; (6)
13 Kanawha; (7) Kumbrabow; (8) Panther Forest/WMA, consisting of approximately twenty-six acres
14 containing park facilities; and (9) Seneca.
15 (c) Neither the director nor any officer, employee or agent of the Division of Natural
16 Resources may close, change the name or the designated use of a state park or state forest
17 without statutory authorization.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to establish Summersville Lake State Park.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
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