Senate Bill No. 548

(By Senators Tomblin (Mr. President), Stollings and Plymale)

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[Introduced February 11, 2010; referred to the Committee on Government Organization.]

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A BILL to extend the time for the governing body of the Board of Education of Boone County, West Virginia, to meet as a levying body for the purpose of presenting to the voters of that county an election to consider a renewal of an existing excess levy for schools, from the third Tuesday of April until the last day in May, 2010 that is not a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

§1. Extending the time for the Board of Education of Boone County to meet as levying body for election to consider an excess levy amendment.

Notwithstanding the provisions of article eight, chapter eleven of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, to the contrary, the Board of Education of Boone County, West Virginia, is authorized to extend the time for its meeting as a levying body, setting the levying rate and certifying its actions to the Auditor from the third Tuesday in April until the last day in May, 2010 that is not a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, for the purpose of submitting to the voters of Boone County, West Virginia, a renewal of an existing excess levy, said excess levy scheduled to expire on June 30, 2010, so as to extend the excess levy until the end of the fiscal year commencing on July 1, 2014.

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(NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to extend the time for the Board of Education of Boone County to meet as a levying body to present to the voters of Boone County the question of renewing an excess levy for schools.

This is a local bill; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.
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