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H. B. 2908
(By Delegates Folk, Hamrick and Kump)
[Introduced March 12, 2013; referred to the
Committee on Government Organization then Finance.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §8-29-4 of the Code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, relating to regional airports; reducing the
terms of members; altering membership; and calculating
membership for each municipality.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §8-29-4 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 29. INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS - REGIONAL AIRPORTS.
§8-29-4. Management of authority vested in members; appointment
and terms of members; vote of members; valuation of
property contributed to an authority; participation by
additional municipalities or counties without state.
(a) The management and control of each authority, its
property, operations, business and affairs shall be lodged in a board of not less than five nor more than twenty-one individuals
who shall be known as members of the authority and who shall be
appointed for terms of three one years year each by the
municipalities and county courts commissions contributing moneys
or property to the authority. However, the first board shall be
comprised of one member appointed by each participating
municipality and one member appointed by each participating county
court commission, and any such member shall serve a term of one
year, beginning as of the date the authority is created. No more
than three members shall serve from one county on the first board.
(b) Each municipality or county shall have one vote member for
each $5,000 dollars it has contributed to the authority in the form
of moneys or property. When property is contributed, the
contributing municipality or county court commission and the
authority shall agree in writing at the time the contribution is
made as to the fair market value of such property, which valuation
shall determine the number of votes members to be allocated to the
municipality or county on the basis thereof. For the fiscal year
during which any authority is formed, the number of votes members
to which any municipality or county shall be entitled shall be
determined as of the time of formation of the authority and shall
govern until the end of that fiscal year, even though additional
moneys or property are contributed during that fiscal year.
Thereafter, the number of votes members shall be determined at the end of each fiscal year and such determination shall govern for the
ensuing fiscal year, even though additional moneys or property are
contributed during that fiscal year. When calculating the number of
members to which any municipality or county is entitled, any
matching grant moneys tied to any Airport Improvement Project, or
any grants received from the Federal Aviation Administration or any
successor agency, shall be excluded from the amount of moneys or
properties contributed. Subsequent to its formation, any authority
may permit any municipality or county without this state to
participate in the affairs of the authority, to appoint members of
the authority in the same manner, and to have such vote or votes
beginning as of the next ensuing fiscal year, as prescribed by law
with respect to the original participating municipalities or
counties or any combination thereof.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to change the length of
terms of regional airport authority board members, and to clarify
how such members are to be allocated.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.