Senate Bill No. 360
(By Senators Bowman and Kessler)
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[Introduced January 29, 2007; referred to the Committee on
Government Organization.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact §11-8-9 of the Code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, relating to extending the time a local
levying body may meet as a levying body.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §11-8-9 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 8. LEVIES.
§11-8-9. Meetings of local levying bodies.
(a) Each local levying body shall hold a meeting or meetings
between the seventh and twenty-eighth days of March for the
transaction of business generally and particularly for the business
herein required.
(b) When a levy is placed on the ballot for consideration
during a primary election, each local levying body may extend its
time to meet as a levying body until the first day of June of that year.
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(NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to allow a levying body to
extend its time to meet, when the levy is placed on the ballot for
consideration during a primary election.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.)