COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 522
(By Senators Lanham and Facemyer)
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[Originating in the Committee on Government Organization;
reported March 17, 2005.]
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A BILL to extend the time for the city council of Hurricane to meet
as a levying body for the purpose of presenting to the voters
of the city an election authorizing continuation of an
additional city levy to maintain the present salaries of its
paid fire and paid police departments, to repair and service
existing fire-fighting and police
equipment and to purchase
additional fire-fighting and police equipment, where
necessary, 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 five.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
THE CITY COUNCIL OF HURRICANE AS A LEVYING BODY EXTENDED.
§1. Extending time for the City of Hurricane to meet as a levying
body for an election
authorizing continuation of an
additional city levy
to maintain present salaries of its paid fire and paid police departments, to repair and
service existing fire-fighting and police equipment, and to
purchase additional fire-fighting and police equipment.
Notwithstanding the provisions of article eight, chapter
eleven of the code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, to the
contrary, the City Council of Hurricane is hereby authorized to
extend the time for its meeting as a levying body and certifying
its actions to the State Tax Commissioner from between the seventh
and twenty-eighth days of March and the third Tuesday in April
until the thirty-first of May, two thousand five, for the purpose
of submitting to the voters of the City of Hurricane the question
of authorizing the continuation of an additional city levy to
maintain the present salaries of all employees of the paid fire and
paid police departments of the City of Hurricane, to repair and
service existing fire-fighting and police department equipment, and
to purchase additional fire-fighting and police department
equipment where necessary.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to extend the time for the
city council of Hurricane to meet as levying body.
This is a local bill; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.