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Code of Virginia Code - Chapter 6. Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission
Table of Contents » Title 62.1. Waters of the State, Ports and Harbors » Chapter 6. Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission
Chapter 6. Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission.
§ 62.1-73. Appointment and removal of Virginia members of Commission.
In pursuance of Article IV of said compact there shall be three members of the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission from Virginia. Two members of the Commission shall be appointed by the Governor, subject to confirmation by the General Assembly, from the membership of the State Water Control Board continued under § 62.1-44.7. The term of the commissioner shall be coincident with that of his term upon the State Water Control Board. Any vacancy in the office of the commissioner shall be filled by appointment by the Governor. The third Virginia member of the Commission shall be the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality. Any member of the Commission appointed pursuant to this section who cannot be present at a meeting of the Commission, or at any committee or subcommittee of the Commission, may designate any employee of the Department of Environmental Quality or a member of the State Water Control Board to attend the meeting and vote on his behalf.
Code 1950, § 62-67.4; 1968, c. 659; 2005, c. 517; 2009, c. 467; 2013, cc. 756, 793.
§ 62.1-74. Powers of Commission; duties of state officers, departments, etc.; jurisdiction of certain courts; enforcement.
Subject to the terms of such compact there is hereby granted to the Commission and commissioners thereof all the powers provided for in the compact, and all the powers necessary or incidental to the carrying out of the compact in every particular. All officers of this Commonwealth are hereby authorized and directed to do all things falling within their respective provinces and jurisdiction necessary or incidental to the carrying out of the compact in every particular, it being hereby declared to be the policy of this Commonwealth to perform and carry out the compact and to accomplish the purposes thereof. All officers, bureaus, departments, and persons of and in the state government or administration of this Commonwealth are hereby authorized and directed at convenient times and upon request of the Commission to furnish it with information and data possessed by them or any of them and to aid the Commission by loan of personnel or other means lying within their legal powers, respectively.
The courts of record of this Commonwealth are hereby granted the jurisdiction specified in Article IX of the compact, and the Attorney General and other law enforcing officers of this Commonwealth are hereby granted the power to institute any action for the enforcement of the orders of the Commission as specified in Article IX of the compact.
Code 1950, § 62-67.5; 1968, c. 659.
§ 62.1-75. Powers granted Commission are supplemental.
Any powers herein granted to the Commission shall be regarded as in aid of and supplemental to and in no case a limitation upon any of the powers vested in the Commission by other laws of this Commonwealth or by the laws of the states of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Tennessee, or by Congress, or by the terms of the compact.
Code 1950, § 62-67.6; 1968, c. 659.
§ 62.1-76. Expenses of members.
The commissioners shall be reimbursed out of moneys appropriated for such purposes all sums which they necessarily expend in the discharge of their duties as members of such Commission.
Code 1950, § 62-67.7; 1968, c. 659.
§ 62.1-77. Officers and employees; meetings.
The Commission shall elect from its membership a chairman, and may also select a secretary who need not be a member. The Commission may employ such assistants as it deems necessarily required, and the duties of such assistants shall be prescribed and their compensation fixed by the Commission and paid out of the state treasury out of funds appropriated for such purposes upon the requisition of the Commission.
The Commission shall meet at times and places agreed upon by the commissioners or upon call of its chairman.
Code 1950, § 62-67.8; 1968, c. 659.
§ 62.1-77.1. Repealed.
Repealed by Acts 2005, c. 517, cl. 2.
§ 62.1-78. Chapter effective in due course, upon signature of Governor.
This chapter shall become effective in due course provided the Governor signs the compact heretofore referred to on behalf of the Commonwealth.
Code 1950, § 62-67.9; 1968, c. 659.
§ 62.1-79. Appropriations.
The sums appropriated to carry out the purposes of this chapter shall be used to effect its provisions and to pay Virginia's proportionate part of the budget of the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission in accordance with Article X of the compact. No part of any such appropriation shall be available for expenditure in whole or in part unless and until the Comptroller shall be annually satisfied that each of the governmental entities having representatives on the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission has provided for the expenses thereof at least as much as is appropriated by the General Assembly of Virginia for the purposes of this chapter.
Code 1950, § 62-67.10; 1968, c. 659.