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2000 SESSION
004901568Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 4, as amended, of Chapter 46 of the Acts of Assembly of 1952 is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 4. The Authority shall be governed by a commission composed of nine seven
commissioners. All powers and duties of the Authority shall be exercised and
performed by the commission. The nine incumbent members of the
commission are declared to be and are the lawfully constituted members of the
commission, and their appointments to office, qualification and terms of
office, being March 1, 1964 for two members, March 1, 1965 for two other
members, March 1, 1966 for two other members and March 1, 1967 for the
remaining three members, are hereby ratified, validated and confirmed. Each of
such incumbent members shall continue in office until his successor shall be duly
appointed and qualified. Except as otherwise provided in this section, the successor of
each member of the commission shall be a resident of the city or county that he
is appointed to represent and shall be appointed for a term of four years one
year and until his successor shall be duly appointed and qualified, except [
that any person appointed to fill a vacancy shall serve only for the unexpired
term. that the two incumbent members whose terms expire on February 29,
2000 shall not continue in office after February 29, 2000. ] Members of the
commission may be appointed for no more than [ ten ] successive one-year terms
[ , except that any person appointed to fill a vacancy shall serve only for the
unexpired term ] . Two of the successors to the six current All members
residing in the City of Newport News of the commission shall be [ and
remain ] residents of the City of Hampton, the City of Newport News, the City
of Poquoson, the City of Williamsburg, the County of Gloucester, the County of James City,
or the County of York and shall be jointly appointed by the council of the City
of Newport News. One of the successors to the remaining four current members residing in
the City of Newport News shall be appointed by city council of the City of
Newport News from the City of Williamsburg and the Counties of York, James
City, and Gloucester upon the recommendation of the city council or board of
supervisors of the city or county they are to represent. Two of the successors
to the three members residing in the City of Hampton shall be appointed by the
and the city council of the City of Hampton. The successor to the other
current member residing in the City of Hampton shall be appointed by city
council of the City of Hampton from the City of Poquoson upon the
recommendation of the Poquoson city council. Thereafter the city council or
board of supervisors of the respective city or county shall appoint the member
to represent their city or county. Each member of the commission shall, before
entering upon the discharge of his duties, take and subscribe the oath of office
required by § 34 of the Constitution of Virginia.
Any member who shall cease to reside within the city from which he was
appointed shall thereupon be disqualified from holding office as a member of the
commission.
[ Five Four ] members of the commission shall constitute a quorum and the
affirmative vote of [ five four ] members shall be necessary for any action
taken by the commission. No vacancy in the membership of the commission shall impair the right of a
quorum to exercise all the powers and perform all the duties of the commission.
2. That the provisions of this act shall not effect appointments to the commission of the Peninsula Ports Authority of Virginia made prior to March 1, 2000.
3. That an emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.