                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

MEMBERSHIP; TERMS; VACANCIES (§ 62.1-69.29)

The membership of the Commission shall consist of 30 members, which includes 13
legislative members and 17 nonlegislative citizen members, 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 jurisdictions in which not
less than two percent of the jurisdiction is found wholly or partially within
the Rappahannock River Basin, that at any time pass a resolution containing the
language required by § 62.1-69.26, 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 Rappahannock River Basin, to be
appointed jointly by the Soil and Water Conservation Districts found wholly or
partially within the Rappahannock River Basin. Nonlegislative citizen members 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, &#8220;nonlegislative citizen member&#8221;
means a member of one of the local governing bodies or the Soil and Water
Conservation Districts of the jurisdictions found wholly or partially within the
Rappahannock River Basin.

HISTORY: 1998, c. 553; 2000, cc. 386, 456; 2004, c. 471; 2009, c. 601; 2013, c.
173; 2023, c. 98.