ENROLLED
Senate Bill No. 749
(By Senators Helmick, Sharpe, Chafin, Plymale, Prezioso,
Edgell, Love, Bailey, Bowman, McCabe, Unger, Minear,
Boley, Facemyer, Yoder, Guills and Sprouse)
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[Passed April 8, 2005; in effect ninety days from passage.]
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AN ACT to amend and reenact §16-13A-4 of the Code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, authorizing a change in the official name of
a public service district in certain circumstances.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §16-13A-4 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 13A. PUBLIC SERVICE DISTRICTS FOR WATER, SEWERAGE,
STORMWATER AND GAS SERVICES.
§16-13A-4. Board chairman; members' compensation; procedure;
district name.
(a) The chairman shall preside at all meetings of the board
and may vote as any other member of the board. If the chairman is
absent from any meeting, the remaining members may select a
temporary chairman and if the member selected as chairman resigns
as such or ceases for any reason to be a member of the board, the board shall select one of its members as chairman to serve until
the next annual organization meeting.
(b) Salaries of the board members are:
(1) For districts with fewer than six hundred customers, up to
seventy-five dollars per attendance at regular monthly meetings and
fifty dollars per attendance at additional special meetings, total
salary not to exceed fifteen hundred dollars per annum;
(2) For districts with six hundred customers or more but fewer
than two thousand customers, up to one hundred dollars per
attendance at regular monthly meetings and seventy-five dollars per
attendance at additional special meetings, total salary not to
exceed two thousand five hundred fifty dollars per annum;
(3) For districts with two thousand customers or more, up to
one hundred twenty-five dollars per attendance at regular monthly
meetings and seventy-five dollars per attendance at additional
special meetings, total salary not to exceed three thousand seven
hundred fifty dollars per annum; and
(4) For districts with four thousand or more customers, up to
one hundred fifty dollars per attendance at regular monthly
meetings and one hundred dollars per attendance at additional
special meetings, total salary not to exceed five thousand four
hundred dollars per annum.
The public service district shall certify the number of
customers served to the Public Service Commission beginning on the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred eighty-six, and
continue each fiscal year thereafter.
(c) Public service districts selling water to other water
utilities for resale may adopt the following salaries for its board
members:
(1) For districts with annual revenues of less than fifty
thousand dollars, up to seventy-five dollars per attendance at
regular monthly meetings and fifty dollars per attendance at
additional special meetings, total salary not to exceed fifteen
hundred dollars per annum;
(2) For districts with annual revenues of fifty thousand
dollars or more, but less than two hundred fifty thousand dollars,
up to one hundred dollars per attendance at regular monthly
meetings and seventy-five dollars per attendance at special
meetings, total salary not to exceed two thousand five hundred
fifty dollars per annum;
(3) For districts with annual revenues of two hundred fifty
thousand dollars or more, but less than five hundred thousand
dollars, up to one hundred twenty-five dollars per attendance at
regular monthly meetings and seventy-five dollars per attendance at
additional special meetings, total salary not to exceed three
thousand seven hundred fifty dollars per annum; and
(4) For districts with annual revenues of five hundred
thousand dollars or more, up to one hundred fifty dollars per attendance at regular monthly meetings and one hundred dollars per
attendance at additional special meetings, total salary not to
exceed five thousand four hundred dollars per annum.
The public service district shall certify the number of
customers served and its annual revenue to the public service
commission beginning on the first day of July, two thousand, and
continue each fiscal year thereafter.
(d) Board members may be reimbursed for all reasonable and
necessary expenses actually incurred in the performance of their
duties as provided for by the rules of the board.
(e) The board shall by resolution determine its own rules of
procedure, fix the time and place of its meetings and the manner in
which special meetings may be called. Public notice of meetings
shall be given in accordance with section three, article nine-a,
chapter six of this code. Emergency meetings may be called as
provided for by said section. A majority of the members
constituting the board also constitute a quorum to do business.
(f) The members of the board are not personally liable or
responsible for any obligations of the district or the board, but
are answerable only for willful misconduct in the performance of
their duties. The county commission which created a district or
county commissions if more than one created the district may, upon
written request of the district, adopt an order changing the
official name of a public service district:
Provided, That such name change will not be effective until approved by the public
service commission of West Virginia and the owners of any bonds and
notes issued by the district, if any, shall have consented, in
writing, to the name change. If a district includes territory
located in more than one county, the county commission or county
commissions changing the name of the district shall provide any
county commission into which the district also extends with a
certified copy fo the order changing the name of the district. The
official name of any district created under the provisions of this
article may contain the name or names of any city, incorporated
town or other municipal corporation included therein or the name of
any county or counties in which it is located.