WEST virginia legislature
2025 regular session
Committee Substitute
for
Senate Bill 626
By Senator Garcia
[Reported March 21, 2025, from the Committee on Economic Development]
A BILL to amend and reenact §8-29-6 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to qualifications of members of regional airport authority; and authorizing participating municipality or county to appoint a nonresident member to a regional airport authority after complying with required legal advertisement.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
## ARTICLE 29. INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS -- REGIONAL AIRPORTS.
All members of the board of each authority shall be residents of the municipality or county which said the members represent: Provided, That a participating municipality or county may appoint a nonresident member 90 days after publishing a notice to fill an initial appointment or vacancy as a Class II legal advertisement in compliance with the provisions of §59-3-1 et seq. of this code.