Bill Text: WV HB5009 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Creating a process by which voters may recall a county ordinance in a special election
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-23 - To House Political Subdivisions [HB5009 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2024-HB5009-Introduced.html
FISCAL NOTE
2024 regular session
Introduced
House Bill 5009
By Delegate Martin
[Introduced January 23, 2024; Referred
to the Committee on Political Subdivisions then Judiciary ]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §7-1-17, relating to creating a process by which voters may recall a county ordinance in a special election.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 1. COUNTY COMMISSIONS GENERALLY.
§7-1-17. Recall of ordinance or code provision.
A county shall, upon presentation of a petition bearing the signatures, written in their own handwriting, of not less than 15 percent of the voters of the last general election, hold a special county election to submit to the qualified voters of such county the question of a recall of any ordinance or code provision previously enacted by the governance of the county.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to create a process by which voters may recall a county ordinance in a special election.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
