Bill Text: WV SB721 | 2022 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to municipalities required to be represented on county authority boards
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-03-02 - To House Government Organization [SB721 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2022-SB721-Introduced.html
WEST virginia legislature
2022 regular session
Originating
Senate Bill 721
By Senators Swope, Martin, Brown, Hamilton, Jeffries, Roberts, Romano, Tarr, Woelfel, and Woodrum
[Originating in the Committee on Economic Development; reported on February 24, 2022]
A BILL to amend and reenact §7-12-3 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to municipalities required to be represented on county authority boards.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 12. COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITIES.
§7-12-3. Management and control of county authority vested in board; appointment and terms of members; vacancies; removal of members.
The management and control of a county authority, its
property, operations, business, and affairs shall be lodged in a board
of not fewer than twelve 12 nor more than twenty-one 21
persons who shall be appointed by the county commission and be known as members
of the authority. The county commission shall appoint one member to represent
the county commission on the board and, for each municipality with 1,000 or
more residents located within the county, the county commission shall
appoint one member to represent the municipality. The city and town council of
each municipality with 1,000 or more residents located within the county
shall submit to the county commission the names of three persons, one of whom
the county commission shall appoint to be the municipality's representative on
the board. Other members of the board shall be appointed by the county
commission and shall include representatives of business, industry, and
labor. The members of the authority first appointed shall serve respectively
for terms of one year, two years, and three years, divided equally or as nearly
equal as possible between these terms. Thereafter, members shall be appointed
for terms of three years each. A member may be reappointed for such additional
term or terms as the county commission may deem proper. If a member resigns, is
removed, or for any other reason his or her membership terminates
during his or her term of office, a successor shall be appointed by the
county commission to fill out the remainder of his or her term. Members
in office at the expiration of their respective terms shall continue to serve
until their successors have been appointed and have qualified. The county
commission may at any time remove any member of the board by an order duly
entered of record and may appoint a successor member for any member so removed.
Other persons, firms, unincorporated associations, and
corporations, who reside, maintain offices, or have economic interests, as
the case may be, in the county, shall be eligible to participate in and
request the county commission to appoint members to the development authority
as the said authority shall by its bylaws provide.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to limit representation on county authorities to municipalities with 1,000 or more residents.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
