Bill Text: WV HB2091 | 2019 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Increasing the minimum number of magisterial districts in a county
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-01-23 - To House Judiciary [HB2091 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2019-HB2091-Introduced.html
WEST
virginia Legislature
2019 regular session
Introduced
House Bill 2091
By Delegate Cowles
[Introduced January 9, 2019; Referred
to the Committee on Political
Subdivisions then the Judiciary.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §7-2-2 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to increasing the minimum number of magisterial districts in a county from three to four.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 2. COUNTY AND DISTRICT BOUNDARIES; CHANGE OF COUNTY SEAT AND NAMES OF UNINCORPORATED TOWNS AND OF DISTRICTS.
§7-2-2. Magisterial districts; boundary lines.
Each county shall be laid off by the county court commission
into magisterial districts, not less than three four nor more
than 10 in number, and as nearly equal as may be in territory and population.
The districts as they now exist shall remain until changed by the county court
commission. The county court commission may, from time to
time, increase or diminish the number of such the districts, and
change the boundary lines thereof of the districts as necessity
may require, in order to conform the same them to the provisions
of the Constitution of the State.
Whenever the county court shall deem commission
finds it advisable to change the boundary line between two or more
districts, or to establish a new district out of another or two or more
districts, or to consolidate two or more existing districts into one, it may
make such the change, establishment or consolidation, by an order
entered of record. And if a survey be deemed is necessary, it may
employ the surveyor of lands for the county, or any other competent surveyor,
who shall survey and make a plat of the several districts as the same they
are thus altered, on which the new lines shall be plainly delineated, noting
particularly such the places of notoriety or prominent objects
through or by which such the lines pass, and return such the
plat and description to the court and the same county commission. The
plat shall be filed in the clerk's office of such court office of
the clerk of the county commission and recorded by the clerk. But before such
the districts shall be are increased or diminished, or the
boundary lines thereof changed, the court county commission
shall cause a notice of its intention to do so to be posted on the front door
of the courthouse of the county, and at some public place in each district
affected thereby, for at least 30 days prior to the term of court the
commission at which such this action is proposed to be taken.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to increase the minimum number of magisterial districts in a county from three to four.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
