SEARCH SITE
VIRGINIA LAW PORTAL
- Code of Virginia
- Virginia Administrative Code
- Constitution of Virginia
- Charters
- Authorities
- Compacts
- Uncodified Acts
- RIS Users (account required)
SEARCHABLE DATABASES
- Bills & Resolutions
session legislation - Bill Summaries
session summaries - Reports to the General Assembly
House and Senate documents - Legislative Liaisons
State agency contacts
ACROSS SESSIONS
- Subject Index: Since 1995
- Bills & Resolutions: Since 1994
- Summaries: Since 1994
Developed and maintained by the Division of Legislative Automated Systems.
2017 SESSION
17104755DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 1, as amended, and § 3 of Chapter XXV (A.1) of Chapter 431 of the Acts of Assembly of 1950 are amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 1. Created; general function; composition; appointment and terms of members.
There shall be a regional wastewater treatment facility
commission which shall be known as the Hopewell Water Renewal Commission
(hereinafter in this chapter referred to as the "Commission"), which
shall act on behalf of the City of Hopewell as hereinafter provided, with
respect to a regional wastewater treatment facility to be owned by the
City of Hopewell to provide treatment for disposal of sanitary and industrial
waste from the City of Hopewell and vicinity. The Commission shall consist of
eight up to nine members who need not be residents of the city and
who shall be appointed by a majority of city council. Five of such members
Up to six members shall be from nominees submitted by five
manufacturers (each nominating with respect to one membership) which provide
assistance in the planning and financing of for the regional wastewater
treatment facility or which are or will be users of said facility. Each new
nominating manufacturer, meaning manufacturers or their predecessors having not
previously submitted nominations to the Commission, shall provide a capital
contribution in an amount determined by the city council upon recommendation by
the Commission. Three additional members shall be a city councilor, the city
manager, and the city attorney. Any vacancy in the appointive membership of
the Commission, however occurring, shall be promptly filled by the city council
for the unexpired term in the same manner and from the same source as the
original appointment to the vacated position.
Council may provide for additional nominees to the
Commission by manufacturers not involved in planning assistance as aforesaid
who contract with the city to provide a capital contribution of four per centum
or more of the original capital cost of the facility by increasing the
Commission membership to provide for one nominee from each such manufacturer.
§ 3. Powers and duties.
The Commission shall help and assist in the planning and
construction maintenance and expansion of the facility. The
Commission shall exercise full authority and responsibility in the operation,
maintenance, improvement and repair of the facility, subject, however, to
overrule of any of its actions by the city council. The Commission shall have
such further duties as the city council may from time to time direct.