# Funding; property and revenue license fees **Citation:** W. Va. Code ยง 24B-5-3 **Type / status:** regulation / current **Agency:** West Virginia Legislature **Effective:** Not stated **Published:** Not stated (a) Every pipeline company shall pay a special license fee in addition to those now required by law. The amount of such fees shall be fixed by the Public Service Commission and levied by it annually on each pipeline company at a rate of $18.60 per mile of three-inch equivalent pipeline included in a company's pipeline ## Document text (a) Every pipeline company shall pay a special license fee in addition to those now required by law. The amount of such fees shall be fixed by the Public Service Commission and levied by it annually on each pipeline company at a rate of $18.60 per mile of three-inch equivalent pipeline included in a company's pipeline facilities. The calculation of a company's number of miles of three-inch equivalent pipeline for the purposes of assessing fees shall be determined on the basis of the pipeline company's reports submitted to the commission in such form as the commission may prescribe. All fees assessed pursuant to this section shall be paid on or before July 1 in each year. (b) Such sums collected under subsection (a) of this section shall be paid into the State Treasury and kept as a special fund, designated the Public Service Commission Pipeline Safety Fund, to be appropriated as provided by law for the purpose of paying the salaries, compensation, costs and expenses of its employees to the extent of the employees' direct involvement in the enforcement of the provisions of this article. Any balance in said fund at the end of any fiscal year shall not revert to the Treasury, but shall remain in said fund and may be appropriated as provided in this subsection. All funds which heretofore were in the Public Service Commission Gas Pipeline Safety Fund shall be transferred to the Public Service Commission Pipeline Safety Fund. ## Provenance - Official: Yes - Source: - Source ID: `wv-pipeline-safety` - SHA-256: `593d59e134736abea15ac858903f5d54901238a56f5c03a9898ac85c3de3898a` - Retrieved: 2026-08-20T12:04:38.773Z - Exported: 2026-08-25T23:02:57.784Z - Document slug: `wv-code-24b-5-3` ### Source metadata ```json { "jurisdiction": "US-WV", "legalLayer": "statute", "pipelineScope": "intrastate-gas-and-hazardous-liquid-with-separate-phmsa-certifications", "exactScope": "This corpus contains the complete current text of the two directly applicable pipeline-safety sections of active 150 CSR 4 (sections 9 and 11) and all 21 current sections of West Virginia Code Chapter 24B. The Secretary of State active rule record and Legislature Chapter 24B publication are the completeness boundaries.", "applicabilityCaveat": "The PSC program covers intrastate natural-gas distribution and transmission, covered LPG systems, certain regulated gathering lines, and intrastate hazardous-liquid transmission under separate 49 U.S.C. 60105 certifications. PHMSA's 2024 gas and hazardous-liquid evaluations each identify the West Virginia PSC as 60105(a) certified and as an interstate agent. Interstate-agent work is federal assistance, not independent state jurisdiction; the PSC states that interstate gas and hazardous-liquid pipelines remain regulated by PHMSA. Facility, commodity, gathering-line, rural-production, storage, and interstate status must be resolved before applying any provision.", "incorporationCaveat": "150 CSR 4 sections 9.3.1 and 11.3.1 adopt 49 CFR Parts 191, 192, 195, and 199 without naming an edition. This connector records those dynamic references but does not reproduce federal text, determine the effect of later federal amendments, or infer adoption of an unlisted federal part.", "publicationCaveat": "The Secretary of State identifies the July 11, 2018 version of 150 CSR 4 as active and prior versions as historical. The active rule still states superseded section 9.10 penalty limits of $1,000 per violation and $200,000 per related series; current W. Va. Code section 24B-4-6 instead states up to $200,000 per violation per day and $2 million per related series. Users must reconcile the current statute, later orders, and federal law rather than relying on the stale rule figures. Retrieval dates are observations, not legal effective dates.", "excludedScope": "150 CSR 4 utility-service, rates, metering, customer relations, gas quality, engineering, testing, promotional-practice, and tariff provisions are not made searchable except where sections 9 and 11 directly govern pipeline safety. Sections 5, 6, and 8 are inventoried as adjacent utility engineering, inspection, and odorization material. Chapter 24C damage prevention is adjacent and not reproduced as a direct pipeline-operator corpus. Dockets, orders, forms, operator lists, incident records, siting, routing, economic regulation, environmental requirements, local law, federal text, and private standards are excluded.", "rights": "Official West Virginia and federal-government artifacts are archived with attribution and SHA-256 provenance. Public availability does not resolve rights in site presentation, agency marks, forms, maps, photographs, or incorporated material; downstream redistribution requires separate review.", "rightsReviewRequired": true, "certificationStatus": { "intrastateGas": "49 U.S.C. 60105(a) certified", "intrastateHazardousLiquid": "49 U.S.C. 60105(a) certified", "interstateGas": "PHMSA; WVPSC acts only as federal interstate agent", "interstateHazardousLiquid": "PHMSA; WVPSC acts only as federal interstate agent" }, "federalIncorporation": null, "incorporatedFederalParts": [], "references": [], "phmsaEvidenceUrls": [ "https://primis-uat.phmsa.dot.gov/stakeholder-comms/states/west%20virginia/", "https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/sites/phmsa.dot.gov/files/2026-03/wv-2024-gas-program-evaluation.pdf", "https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/sites/phmsa.dot.gov/files/2026-03/wv-2024-hazardous-liquid-program-evaluation.pdf" ], "originSourceId": "wv-legislature-chapter-24b", "region": "WV" } ```