Bill Text: WV HB2774 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the effects of a criminal conviction and incarceration on a municipal officer
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-09 - To House Judiciary [HB2774 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2014-HB2774-Introduced.html
(By Delegates Howell (By Request), Rowan, Shott, Frich,
[Introduced March 1, 2013; referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §8-5-9 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to the effects of a criminal conviction and incarceration on a municipal officer; immediate removal and, if a felony, inability to hold public office again.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §8-5-9 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 5. ELECTION, APPOINTMENT, QUALIFICATION AND COMPENSATION OF OFFICERS; GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES; ELECTIONS AND PETITIONS GENERALLY; CONFLICT OF INTEREST.
§8-5-9. Terms of office; removal from office.
_____(a) Except as otherwise provided in the charter of
(b) All municipal officers, whether elected at the first election of officers or at regular municipal elections, or appointed,
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the immediate removal from office a municipal officer convicted of a crime and incarcerated and, if the crime is a felony, to render the municipal officer unable to hold a public office again.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.