Bill Text: MS SB2831 | 2023 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Pearl River Valley Water Supply District; add two board members from the City of Jackson.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2023-01-31 - Died In Committee [SB2831 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2023-SB2831-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2023 Regular Session
To: Municipalities
By: Senator(s) Horhn
Senate Bill 2831
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 51-9-107, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT THE GOVERNOR SHALL APPOINT TWO MEMBERS FROM THE CITY OF JACKSON TO SERVE ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE PEARL RIVER VALLEY WATER SUPPLY DISTRICT; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 51-9-107, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
51-9-107. All powers of the district shall be exercised by a board of directors, to be composed of the following:
(a) Each member of the Pearl River Industrial Commission whose county becomes a part of the Pearl River Valley Water Supply District shall be a member of the Board of Directors of the Pearl River Valley Water Supply District. Such directors shall serve on this board during their term of office on the Pearl River Industrial Commission. In addition, the board of supervisors of each county that becomes a part of the district shall appoint one (1) additional member, who shall serve for a term concurrent with the terms of the members of the board of supervisors. The members shall be appointed at the first meeting of the board of supervisors in January after the supervisors take office. The members appointed from Madison County and Rankin County shall be persons who reside on and are holders of residential leases from the Pearl River Valley Water Supply District that are located in Madison County and Rankin County, respectively, or who reside in established subdivisions in Madison County and Rankin County, respectively, in which some of the residential property of the subdivision is leased from the Pearl River Valley Water Supply District.
The members appointed from Madison County and Rankin County who are serving on July 1, 2012, shall continue to serve until January 1, 2013, after which date the Board of Supervisors of Madison County and the Board of Supervisors of Rankin County each shall appoint one (1) member who meets the residency requirements of this section. The persons appointed under the provisions of this paragraph shall serve for the remainder of the unexpired term.
(b) The Governor shall appoint two (2) members from the City of Jackson from a list of six (6) names submitted by the governing authority of the City of Jackson.
( * * *c) The Mississippi Commission on
Environmental Quality, the Mississippi Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries and
Parks, Forestry Commission and the State Board of Health of the State of
Mississippi shall each appoint one (1) director from that department to serve on
the Board of Directors of the Pearl River Valley Water Supply District to serve
at the pleasure of the respective board appointing him. From and after January
1, 2013, each of the members appointed under this paragraph ( * * *c) shall be a person who resides on and
is a holder of a residential lease from the Pearl River Valley Water Supply
District.
( * * *d) Each director shall take and
subscribe to the oath of office required by Section 268 of the Constitution of
the State of Mississippi before a chancery clerk, that he will faithfully
discharge the duties of the office, which oath shall be filed with the clerk
and by him preserved.
( * * *e) Each director shall receive per
diem compensation in the amount as provided in Section 25-3-69 for attending
each meeting of the board and for each day spent in attending to the necessary
business of the district and shall be reimbursed for actual expenses thus
incurred upon express authorization of the board, including travel expenses, as
provided in Section 25-3-41.
( * * *f) The board of directors shall
annually elect from its number a president and a vice president of the
district, and such other officers as in the judgment of the board are
necessary. The president shall be the chief executive officer of the district
and the presiding officer of the board, and shall have the same right to vote
as any other director. The vice president shall perform all duties and
exercise all powers conferred by this article upon the president when the
president is absent or fails or declines to act, except the president's right
to vote. The board shall also appoint a secretary and a treasurer who may or
may not be members of the board, and it may combine those offices. The
treasurer shall give bond in the sum of not less than Fifty Thousand Dollars
($50,000.00) as set by the board of directors and each director shall give bond
in the sum of not less than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), and the premiums
on those bonds shall be an expense of the district. The condition of each such
bond shall be that the treasurer or director will faithfully perform all duties
of office and account for all money which shall come into his custody as
treasurer or director of the district.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2023.
