ENROLLED
H. B. 2675

(By Delegates Douglas, Collins, Prunty,
H. White, Hatfield, Manchin and McGraw )
[Passed March 12, 1999; in effect ninety days from passage.]

AN ACT to amend and reenact section one, article twenty, chapter twenty-two of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, relating to the continuation of the office of the environmental advocate of the division of environmental protection.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section one, article twenty, chapter twenty-two of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

ARTICLE 20. ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATE.

§22-20-1. Appointment of environmental advocate; powers and duties; salary; continuation of position.
The director of the division of environmental protection shall appoint a person to serve as the environmental advocate within the division of environmental protection, and shall adopt and promulgate rules in accordance with the provisions of article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code governing and controlling the qualifications, powers and duties of the person to be appointed to the position of environmental advocate. The environmental advocate shall serve at the will and pleasure of the director, who shall also set the salary of the environmental advocate. All funding for the office of environmental advocate shall be from existing funds of the division of environmental protection. The director shall provide an office and secretarial and support staff as needed. The position of environmental advocate shall continue to exist until the first day of July, two thousand, pursuant to article ten, chapter four of this code.