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CHAPTER 601 An Act to amend and reenact § 62.1-69.29 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Rappahannock River Basin Commission; membership. [S 1036] Approved March 27, 2009

 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 62.1-69.29 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 62.1-69.29. Membership; terms; vacancies.

The membership of the Commission shall consist of 34 members, which includes 17 legislative members and 17 nonlegislative citizen members, to be appointed as follows: 10 members of the House of Delegates, one member each of the Fifteenth, Eighteenth, Twenty-eighth, Thirtieth, Thirty-first, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-eighth, Eighty-eighth, Ninety-eighth and Ninety-ninth House of Delegates Districts, as those districts existed on January 1, 2002; seven members of the Senate, one member each of the Fourth, Seventeenth, Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Senatorial Districts, as those districts existed on January 1, 2002; one member or designee of each of the 16 governing bodies of the jurisdictions in which not less than two percent of the jurisdiction is found wholly or partially within the Rappahannock River Basin, that at any time pass a resolution containing the language required by § 62.1-69.26, to be appointed by the respective local governing body; and one member or designee of a Soil and Water Conservation District found wholly or partially within the Rappahannock River Basin, to be appointed jointly by the Soil and Water Conservation Districts found wholly or partially within the Rappahannock River Basin. Nonlegislative citizen members of the Commission shall be citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

All members of the Commission shall serve terms coincident with their terms of office. Appointments to fill vacancies, other than by expiration of a term, shall be for the unexpired terms. All members may be reappointed. Vacancies shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointments.

For the purposes of this section, "nonlegislative citizen member" means an elected a member of one of the local governing bodies or the Soil and Water Conservation Districts of the jurisdictions found wholly or partially within the Rappahannock River Basin.