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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>76695</law_id><section_number>33.2-201</section_number><catch_line>Appointment requirements; statewide interest</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>33.2-200</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="33.2">Highways and Other Surface Transportation Systems</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">General Provisions and Transportation Entities</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">Transportation Entities</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">Commonwealth Transportation Board; Membership and Organization</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Of the members appointed to the <span class="dictionary">Board</span>, one member shall be a resident of the territory now included in the Bristol <span class="dictionary">highway construction</span> district, one in the Salem <span class="dictionary">highway construction</span> district, one in the Lynchburg <span class="dictionary">highway construction</span> district, one in the Staunton <span class="dictionary">highway construction</span> district, one in the Culpeper <span class="dictionary">highway construction</span> district, one in the Fredericksburg <span class="dictionary">highway construction</span> district, one in the Richmond <span class="dictionary">highway construction</span> district, one in the Hampton Roads <span class="dictionary">highway construction</span> district, and one in the Northern Virginia <span class="dictionary">highway construction</span> district. The remaining five members shall be appointed from the Commonwealth at large, provided that at least two reside in urbanized areas with populations greater than 200,000 and are designated as urban at-large members and at least two reside outside urbanized areas with populations greater than 200,000 and are designated as rural at-large members. The at-large members shall be appointed to represent rural and urban transportation needs and to be mindful of the concerns of seaports and seaport users, airports and airport users, railways and railway users, and <span class="dictionary">mass transit</span> and <span class="dictionary">mass transit</span> users. Each appointed member of the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> shall be primarily mindful of the best interest of the Commonwealth at large instead of the interests of the <span class="dictionary">highway construction</span> district from which chosen or of the transportation interest represented.
		No member of a governing body of a locality shall be eligible, during the term of office for which he was elected or appointed, to serve as an appointed member of the <span class="dictionary">Board</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 33-2; 1964, c. 265; 1970, c. 322, &#xA7; 33.1-2; 1974, c. 462; 1982, c. 487; 1984, c. 748; 1986, Sp. Sess., c. 13; 2000, c. 49; 2014, c. 805; 2018, c. 828.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
