Senate Bill No. 217
(By Senators Bowman, Bailey, Jenkins, McCabe, White, Plymale,
Yoder, Sypolt, Minard, Foster, Stollings, Boley and Barnes)
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[Originating in the Committee on Government Organization;
reported January 25, 2007.]
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A BILL to extend the time for the city council of the city of
Piedmont, Mineral County, to meet as a levying body for the
purpose of presenting to the voters of the city an election to
continue an additional municipal levy to maintain the existing
public streets, fire hydrants and lines for the city of
Piedmont and for payment of any obligation by the city due to
higher costs and for the purpose of paying all costs incurred
in the laying of this additional levy from between the seventh
and twenty-eighth days of March and the third Tuesday in April
until the thirty-first day of May, two thousand seven.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PIEDMONT MEETING AS A LEVYING BODY
EXTENDED.
§1. Extending time for the city council for the city of Piedmont to
meet as a levying body for an election continuing an additional levy to maintain the existing public streets, fire
hydrants and lines for the city of Piedmont and for payment
of any obligation by the city due to higher costs and for the
purpose of paying all costs incurred in the laying of the
additional levy.
Notwithstanding the provisions of article eight, chapter
eleven of the Code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred
thirty-one, as amended, the city council of the city of Piedmont,
Mineral County, is authorized to extend the time for its meeting as
a levying body, setting the levy rate and certifying its actions to
the State Auditor and the State Tax Commissioner from between the
seventh and twenty-eighth days of March and the third Tuesday in
April until the thirty-first of May, two thousand seven, for the
purpose of submitting to the voters of the city of Piedmont the
question of continuing an additional municipal levy to maintain the
existing public streets, fire hydrants and lines for the city of
Piedmont and for payment of any obligation by the city due to
higher costs and for the purpose of paying all costs incurred in
the laying of this additional levy.
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(NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to extend the time for the
city council of Piedmont to meet as a levying body.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.)