Senate Bill No. 19
(By Senator Chernenko)
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[Introduced February 10, 1993;referred
to the Committee on Government Organization.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact section two, chapter one hundred
seventy-nine, acts of the Legislature, regular session, one
thousand nine hundred eighty-five, relating to changing the
residency requirements for membership on the city of
Wheeling centre market commission and providing that
citizens in Wheeling or Ohio County are eligible for
appointment to the commission.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section two, chapter one hundred seventy-nine, acts of
the Legislature, regular session, one thousand nine hundred
eighty-five, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
CENTRE MARKET COMMISSION.
§2. Centre commission may be created; board of directors;
appointment; powers and duties generally; officer; bylaws,
rules and regulations.
The governing body of the city of Wheeling is hereby
authorized to create a centre market commission by ordinance, thesame to be a body corporate and politic which shall have a board
of directors as its governing body. The commission may be
created for a time certain or until terminated by like ordinance
of such governing body. The board consists of five persons
appointed by the city council, the members shall be citizens of
Wheeling or Ohio County and shall serve without compensation.
They shall be appointed for a period of four years and may hold
no political office, municipal, county or state. The city
council shall, on or after the effective date of this act,
appoint five members, one for two years, two for three years and
two for four years, respectively, as designated by the city
council. Their respective successors, however, shall be
appointed for the term of four years excepting that any person
appointed to fill a vacancy occurring, before the expiration of
a term, shall serve only for the unexpired term. Any
commissioner is eligible for reappointment. However, any vacancy
created either by the expiration of a term, or otherwise, shall
be filled by the appointing body. Upon the appointment of the
commission, the members thereof shall elect from among their
number a chairman and a secretary-treasurer who shall hold office
for one year and be eligible for reelection. Annually thereafter
the commission shall organize by the election of a secretary-
treasurer and such other officers from its own number as it may
deem advisable. Members of the commission may be removed from
office in the same manner as provided for the removal of county
officers under article six, chapter six of the code of WestVirginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended.
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(NOTE: The purpose of this local bill is to change the
residency requirements for appointment to the Wheeling Centre
Market Commission. The bill changes the requirement that members
be residents of the city of Wheeling and allows citizens of the
city of Wheeling or Ohio County to be appointed to the
commission.)