Bill Text: VA HB2152 | 2017 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Charter; City of Hopewell; water renewal commission.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-03-13 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0391) [HB2152 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2017-HB2152-Prefiled.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §1, as amended, and §3 of Chapter XXV (A.1) of Chapter 431 of the Acts of Assembly of 1950 are amended and reenacted as follows:
§1. Created; general function; composition; appointment and terms of members.
There shall be a regional wastewater treatment facility
commission which shall be known as the Hopewell Water Renewal Commission
(hereinafter in this chapter referred to as the "Commission"), which
shall act on behalf of the City of Hopewell as hereinafter provided, with
respect to a regional wastewater treatment facility to be
owned by the City of Hopewell to provide treatment for disposal of sanitary and
industrial waste from the City of Hopewell and vicinity. The Commission shall
consist of eight members who need not be
residents of the city and who shall be appointed by a majority of city council. Five of such members Members
shall be from nominees submitted by five
manufacturers (each nominating with respect to one membership) which provide
assistance in the planning and financing of for the
regional wastewater treatment facility or which are or will be users of said
facility. Each manufacturer shall provide a capital
contribution in an amount determined by the city council. Additional members
shall be a city councilor, the
city manager, and the city attorney. Any vacancy in the
appointive membership of the Commission, however occurring, shall be promptly filled
by the city council for the unexpired term in the same manner and from the same
source as the original appointment to the vacated position.
Council may provide
for additional nominees to the Commission by manufacturers not involved in
planning assistance as aforesaid who contract with the city to provide
a capital contribution of four per centum or more of the original capital cost
of the facility by increasing the Commission membership to provide for one
nominee from each such manufacturer.
§3. Powers and duties.
The Commission shall help and assist in the planning and construction maintenance and expansion of
the facility. The Commission shall exercise full authority and responsibility
in the operation, maintenance, improvement and repair of the facility, subject,
however, to overrule of any of its actions by the city council. The Commission
shall have such further duties as the city council may from time to time
direct.