Senate Bill No. 516

(By Senators Helmick and Ross)

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[Introduced February 20, 1995; referred to the Committee
on Government Organization.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact section one, chapter one hundred eighty-three, acts of the Legislature, regular session, one thousand nine hundred ninety-four, relating to removing the prohibition against a county withdrawing from the Greenbrier, Monroe and Pocahontas multicounty economic development authority.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section one, chapter one hundred eighty-three, acts of the Legislature, regular session, one thousand nine hundred ninety-four, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
GREENBRIER, MONROE AND POCAHONTAS MULTICOUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY.

§1.Economic development authority for Greenbrier, Monroe and Pocahontas counties created; functions.

There is hereby created a multicounty economic development authority, consisting of the counties of Greenbrier, Monroe and Pocahontas, which shall plan and coordinate economic development within these counties. The Greenbrier economic development corporation is hereby abolished and its powers and assets transferred to the multicounty economic development authority created by this act.
No county member may withdraw from this authority without an amendment to this act.




Note: The purpose of this bill is to remove the prohibition against a county withdrawing from the Greenbrier, Monroe and Pocahontas Multicounty Economic Development Authority.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.