H. B. 2425


(By Delegates Schadler, Evans and Rowan)
[Introduced January 23, 2007; referred to the
Committee on Political Subdivisions then the Judiciary.]




A BILL extending the time for the City Council of Piedmont to meet as a levying body for the purpose of presenting to the voters of the city an election to continue an additional city levy to maintain the existing public streets, fire hydrants and lines for the City of Piedmont and for payment of any obligation by the city due to higher costs and for the purpose of paying all costs incurred in the laying of this additional levy from between the seventh and twenty-eighth days of March and the third Tuesday in April until the thirty-first day of May, two thousand seven.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
THE CITY COUNCIL OF PIEDMONT MEETING AS A LEVYING BODY EXTENDED.
§1. Extending time for the City of Piedmont to meet as a levying body for election of additional levies to maintain the existing public streets, fire hydrants and lines for the City of Piedmont and for payment of any obligation by the city due to higher costs and for the purpose of paying all costs incurred in the laying of the additional levy.

Notwithstanding the provisions of article eight, chapter eleven of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, to the contrary, the City Council of Piedmont is authorized to extend the time for its meeting as a levying body and certifying its actions to the State Auditor from between the seventh and twenty-eighth days of March and the third Tuesday in April until the thirty-first of May, two thousand seven, for the purpose of submitting to the voters of the City of Piedmont the continuation of an additional city levy to maintain the existing public streets, fire hydrants and lines for the City of Piedmont and for payment of any obligation by the city due to higher costs and for the purpose of paying all costs incurred in the laying of this additional levy.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to extend the time for the City Council of Piedmont to meet as a levying body.

This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.