HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 10
(By Delegate Prunty)
(Introduced March 5, 1997; referred to the
Committee on Constitutional Revision.)
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of West
Virginia repealing section three, article nine thereof,
relating to sheriffs' succession; numbering and designating
such proposed amendment; and providing a summarized
statement of the purpose of such proposed amendment.
Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia, two-thirds of
the members elected to each house agreeing thereto:
That the question of ratification or rejection of an
amendment to the Constitution of the State of West Virginia be
submitted to the voters of the State at the next general election
to be held in the year one thousand nine hundred ninety-eight,
which proposed amendment is that section three, article nine be
repealed.
Resolved further, That in accordance with the provisions of
article eleven, chapter three of the code of West Virginia, one
thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, such proposed
amendment is hereby numbered "Amendment No. 1" and designated as the "Repeal of Limitation on Sheriffs' Consecutive Terms" and the
purpose of the proposed amendment is summarized as follows: "To
repeal section three, article nine of the State Constitution
which provides that a person who has served as sheriff for two
consecutive terms is ineligible to serve a third consecutive
term."
NOTE: This resolution would repeal the constitutional
prohibition on sheriffs serving more than two consecutive terms.