ENROLLED

H. B. 2670


(By Delegates Beane, Kuhn, Ferrell, Martin,

Tucker, Talbott and Leggett)


[Passed March 8, 2003; in effect ninety days from passage.]



AN ACT to amend and reenact section seventeen, article five, chapter twenty-three of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to continuation of the office of judges .

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section seventeen, article five, chapter twenty-three of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 5. REVIEW.

§23-5-17. Continuation of office of judges.
The office of judges shall continue to exist
, pursuant to the provisions of article ten, chapter four of this code, until the first day of July, two thousand four, unless sooner terminated, continued or reestablished pursuant to the provisions of that article.