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2023 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 62.1-69.25, 62.1-69.29, and 62.1-69.30 of the Code of Virginia are amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 62.1-69.25. Definitions.
As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
"Rappahannock River Basin" means that land area
designated as the Rappahannock River Basin by the State Water Control Board
pursuant to § 62.1-44.38 and which is also found in the Fourth, Seventeenth,
Twenty-fourth, Twenty-sixth, Twenty-fifth, Twenty-seventh, and
Twenty-eighth, and Thirty-first Senatorial Districts or the
Eighteenth, Twenty-eighth, Thirtieth, Thirty-first, Fifty-fourth,
Fifty-eighth, Eighty-eighth, Ninety-eighth, and Ninety-ninth
Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth,
Sixty-seventh, and Sixty-eighth House of Delegates Districts, as those
districts exist on January 1, 2012 2024.
§ 62.1-69.29. Membership; terms; vacancies.
The membership of the Commission shall consist of 32
30 members, which includes 15 13 legislative members and 17
nonlegislative citizen members, to be appointed as follows: nine members of the
House of Delegates, one member each of the Eighteenth, Twenty-eighth,
Thirtieth, Thirty-first, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-eighth, Eighty-eighth,
Ninety-eighth, and Ninety-ninth Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third,
Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, Sixty-seventh, and Sixty-eighth
House of Delegates Districts, as those districts existed exist on
January 1, 2012 2024; six four members of the
Senate, one member each of the Fourth, Seventeenth, Twenty-fourth,
Twenty-sixth, Twenty-fifth, Twenty-seventh, and Twenty-eighth,
and Thirty-first Senatorial Districts, as those districts existed
exist on January 1, 2012 2024; 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 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.
§ 62.1-69.30. Chairman and vice-chairman; quorum; meetings.
The Commission shall elect annually a chairman and
vice-chairman from among its membership. Eleven Nine members of
the Commission shall constitute a quorum. The Commission shall meet no more
than four times each year. The meetings of the Commission shall be held at the
call of the chairman or whenever the majority of the members so request. Each
member of the Commission shall have an equal vote.
2. That the provisions of this act shall become effective on January 1, 2024.