WEST virginia legislature

2025 regular session

ENGROSSED

Committee Substitute

for

House Bill 2964

By Delegates DeVault, Mallow, Ferrell, and Fehrenbacher

[Originating in the Committee on Government Organization; Reported March 24, 2025]

A BILL to amend and reenact §8-29-6 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to allowing members of regional airport boards to be a resident of the municipality or county in which the airport is located.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 29. INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS — REGIONAL AIRPORTS. §8-29-6. Qualification of members.

All members of the board of each authority shall be residents of the municipality or county which said members represent. To be qualified to serve, members of the board of each authority shall be drawn from residents of the municipality(ies) and/or contiguous county(ies) which created and established the regional airport authority. The municipality or county is each authorized to make their regional airport authority board appointments from within either government entity’s boundaries. Such regional airport authority board membership may be composed of any combination of such qualified municipal and county residents, with number of votes of each municipality and county to remain subject to the requirements of §8-29-4 of this code.