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2000 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 33.1-2 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 33.1-2. Residence requirements; statewide interest.
Of such Board, one member shall be a resident of the territory now included in
the Bristol construction district, one in the Salem construction district, one
in the Lynchburg construction district, one in the Staunton construction
district, one in the Culpeper construction district, one in the Fredericksburg
construction district, one in the Richmond construction district, one in the
Suffolk Hampton Roads construction district and one in the Northern
Virginia construction district. The remaining five members shall be appointed
from the Commonwealth at large, but at least two shall reside in standard
metropolitan statistical areas and be designated as urban at-large members, and
at least two shall reside outside standard metropolitan statistical areas and
be designated as rural at-large members. The at-large members shall be
appointed to represent rural and urban transportation needs and be mindful of
the concerns of seaports and seaport users, airports and airport users,
railways and railway users, and mass transit and mass transit users. Each
member so appointed shall be mindful of the best interest of the Commonwealth
at large primarily instead of those of the district from which chosen or of the
transportation interest represented.