ENROLLED
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 239
(Senators McCabe, Foster, Palumbo, Wells and Kessler, original sponsors)
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[Passed April 10, 2009; in effect ninety days from passage.]
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AN ACT to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by
adding thereto a new section, designated §7A-7-4a, relating to
authorizing counties with a population exceeding 150,000 and
a Class I municipality
to approve metro government by a
majority vote.
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 section, designated §7A-7-4a
, to read as
follows:
ARTICLE 7. ELECTIONS ON METRO GOVERNMENT.
§7A-7-4a. Modifying the percentage vote required to approve metro
government in municipal and countywide elections from fifty-
five percent to a majority in counties with populations in
excess of 150,000.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter to the
contrary, where the election is on the question of consolidation of
a county with a population exceeding 150,000, based on the 2000 or
2010 census of population taken under the authority of the United
States government, and a single Class I city that is the principal
municipality of the county, then metro government becomes effective
pursuant to the charter if a majority of the legal votes cast by
the qualified voters of the principal city and a majority of the
legal votes cast by the qualified voters of all incorporated and
unincorporated areas of the affected county, excluding the
principal city, approves the consolidation.
(b) As used in this section, a Class I city is a municipality
so classified under section eight, article one, chapter eight of
this code.
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