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CHAPTER 517 An Act to amend and reenact § 62.1-73 of the Code of Virginia and to repeal § 62.1-77.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to Virginia memberships on the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission. [S 1233] Approved March 22, 2005  

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That § 62.1-73 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 62.1-73. Appointment and removal of Virginia members of Commission.

In pursuance of Article IV of said compact there shall be three members of the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission from Virginia. The Two members of the Commission shall be appointed by the Governor, subject to confirmation by the General Assembly, from the membership of the State Water Control Board continued under § 62.1-44.7. The terms of the commissioners shall be coincident with that of their terms upon the Commonwealth Water Control Board. All vacancies in the office of any such commissioner shall be filled by appointment by the Governor. The third Virginia member of the Commission shall be the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality. Any member of the Commission appointed pursuant to this section who cannot be present at a meeting of the Commission, or at any committee or subcommittee of the Commission, may designate any employee of the Department of Environmental Quality or a member of the State Water Control Board to attend the meeting and vote on his behalf.

Any commissioner may be removed from office by the Governor.

2.  That § 62.1-77.1 of the Code of Virginia is repealed.