WEST virginia legislature

2025 regular session

Committee Substitute

for

Committee Substitute

for

Senate Bill 626

By Senators Garcia and Oliverio

[Reported March 27, 2025, from the Committee on Government Organization]

 

 

A BILL to amend and reenact §8-29-6 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to qualifications of members of regional airport authority; and authorizing participating municipality or county to appoint a nonresident member to a regional airport authority after complying with required legal advertisement.

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 saidthat the members represent: Provided, That a participating municipality or county may appoint a nonresident member 90 days after publishing a notice to fill an initial appointment or vacancy as a Class II legal advertisement in compliance with the provisions of §59-3-1 et seq. of this code.