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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>66551</law_id><section_number>62.1-69.29</section_number><catch_line>Membership; terms; vacancies</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="62.1">Waters of the State, Ports and Harbors</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="5.3">Rappahannock River Basin Commission</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The membership of the Commission shall consist of 30 members, which includes 13 legislative members and 17 <span class="dictionary">nonlegislative citizen members</span>, to be appointed as follows: nine members of the House of Delegates, one member each of the Thirtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, Sixty-seventh, and Sixty-eighth House of Delegates Districts, as those districts exist on January 1, 2024; four members of the Senate, one member each of the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-seventh, Twenty-eighth, and Thirty-first Senatorial Districts, as those districts exist on January 1, 2024; one member or designee of each of the 16 governing bodies of the <span class="dictionary">jurisdictions</span> in which not less than two percent of the <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> is found wholly or partially within the <span class="dictionary">Rappahannock River Basin</span>, that at any time pass a resolution containing the language required by &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Rappahannock River Basin Commission; establishment" href="/62.1-69.26/">62.1-69.26</a>, to be appointed by the respective local governing body; and one member or designee of a Soil and Water Conservation District found wholly or partially within the <span class="dictionary">Rappahannock River Basin</span>, to be appointed jointly by the Soil and Water Conservation Districts found wholly or partially within the <span class="dictionary">Rappahannock River Basin</span>. <span class="dictionary">Nonlegislative citizen members</span> of the Commission shall be citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
		All members of the Commission shall serve terms coincident with their terms of office. Appointments to fill vacancies, other than by expiration of a term, shall be for the unexpired terms. All members may be reappointed. Vacancies shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointments.
		For the purposes of this section, &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">nonlegislative citizen member</span>&#x201D; means a member of one of the local governing bodies or the Soil and Water Conservation Districts of the <span class="dictionary">jurisdictions</span> found wholly or partially within the <span class="dictionary">Rappahannock River Basin</span>.</p></section></text><history>1998, c. 553; 2000, cc. 386, 456; 2004, c. 471; 2009, c. 601; 2013, c. 173; 2023, c. 98.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
