ENROLLED
Senate Bill No. 439
(By Senators Bowman, Bailey, Ball, Kessler, McCabe, Minard, Plymale, Redd,
Snyder, Wooton and Boley)
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[Passed February 26, 1999; in effect ninety days from passage.]
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AN ACT to amend and reenact section one, article six, chapter five
of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred
thirty-one, as amended, relating to continuing the state
building commission.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section one, article six, chapter five of the code of
West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be
amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 6. STATE BUILDING COMMISSION.
§5-6-1. Name of state office building commission changed;
composition; appointment, terms and qualifications of members;
chairman and secretary; compensation and expenses; powers and
duties generally; frequency of meetings; continuation.
"The state office building commission of West Virginia",
hereto created, shall continue in existence, but on and after the ninth day of February, one thousand nine hundred sixty-six, shall
be known and designated as "The state building commission of West
Virginia" and shall continue as a body corporate and as an agency
of the state of West Virginia. On and after the date aforesaid,
the commission shall consist of the governor, attorney general,
state treasurer and four additional members to be appointed by the
governor by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The
terms of office for said members to be appointed by the governor
shall be four years, except that the terms of office of the first
four members so appointed by the governor shall be for one, two,
three and four years, respectively. No more than three of such
members so appointed by the governor shall be members of the same
political party, nor shall any of said members be members or
employees of the executive, legislative or judicial branches of
government of West Virginia or any political subdivision thereof.
The governor shall be chairman of the commission. The secretary of
state shall be a member of the commission and serve as its
secretary, but shall not have the right to vote upon matters before
the commission. All members of the commission shall be citizens
and residents of this state. The members of the commission shall be paid or reimbursed for their necessary expenses incurred under
this article, but shall receive no compensation for their services
as members or officers of the commission:
Provided, That each
member of the commission appointed by the governor shall, in
addition to such reimbursement for necessary expenses, receive an
amount not to exceed the same compensation as is paid to members of
the Legislature for their interim duties as recommended by the
citizens legislative compensation commission and authorized by law
for each day or substantial portion thereof that he is engaged in
the work of the commission. Such expenses and per diem shall be
paid solely from funds provided under the authority of this
article, and the commission shall not proceed to exercise or carry
out any authority or power herein given it to bind said commission
beyond the extent to which money has been provided under the
authority of this article. On or before the fifteenth day of each
month, the commission shall prepare and transmit to the president
and minority leader of the Senate and the speaker and the minority
leader of the House of Delegates a report covering the activities
of the said commission for the preceding calendar month.
Pursuant to the provisions of article ten, chapter four of
this code, the state building commission shall continue to exist
until the first day of July,
one thousand nine hundred ninety nine two thousand.