WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2016 REGULAR SESSION

    

Introduced

House Bill 4191

 

By delegates howell, Arvon, Moffatt, Phillips, Eldridge, Faircloth, Cadle, Walters, Ellington, Cooper and R. Smith

 

  [Introduced January 21, 2016; referred to the

Committee on Political Subdivisions then the Judiciary.]

 

A BILL to amend and reenact the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new article, designated §8-5A-1, relating to creating the Taxation With Representation Act whereby nonresidents of a municipality who work in that municipality and who pay user fees pursuant to a municipal ordinance may vote in municipal elections.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new article, designated §8-5A-1, to read as follows:

ARTICLE 5A.  Taxation With Representation Act.

§8-5A-1.  Taxation With Representation Act.

Notwithstanding any other provision in this code to the contrary, and provided that a person is not otherwise disqualified, a person who lives outside a municipality’s corporate limits and who pays a user fee or other tax imposed by that municipality pursuant to section thirteen, article thirteen of this chapter may vote in all elections of that municipality.

 

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to create Taxation With Representation Act whereby nonresidents of a municipality who work in that municipality and who pay user fees pursuant to a municipal ordinance may vote in municipal elections

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.