S*0558(Rat #0297, Act #0277 of 2006)  General Bill, By Knotts, Cromer and 
Setzler
 AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 6-13-30, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976,
 RELATING TO THE MEMBERSHIP AND APPOINTMENT OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF A RURAL
 COMMUNITY WATER DISTRICT SO AS TO PROVIDE A METHOD FOR REVISING THE NUMBER AND
 METHOD OF BOARD APPOINTMENTS FOR DISTRICTS; AND TO REPEAL ACT 379 OF 2004
 RELATING TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE GILBERT-SUMMIT RURAL COMMUNITY WATER
 DISTRICT IN LEXINGTON COUNTY. - ratified title

   03/02/05  Senate Introduced and read first time SJ-6
   03/02/05  Senate Referred to Committee on Judiciary SJ-6
   04/19/05  Senate Committee report: Favorable with amendment
                     Judiciary SJ-11
   04/20/05  Senate Amended SJ-39
   04/20/05  Senate Read second time SJ-39
   04/21/05  Senate Read third time and sent to House SJ-12
   04/26/05  House  Introduced and read first time HJ-12
   04/26/05  House  Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Natural
                     Resources and Environmental Affairs HJ-12
   04/20/06  House  Recalled from Committee on Agriculture, Natural
                     Resources and Environmental Affairs HJ-47
   04/26/06  House  Read second time HJ-46
   04/27/06  House  Read third time and enrolled HJ-13
   05/18/06         Ratified R 297
   05/23/06         Signed By Governor
   05/25/06         Copies available
   05/25/06         Effective date 05/23/06
   06/08/06         Act No. 277

(A277, R297, S558)

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 6-13-30, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE MEMBERSHIP AND APPOINTMENT OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF A RURAL COMMUNITY WATER DISTRICT, SO AS TO PROVIDE A METHOD FOR REVISING THE NUMBER AND METHOD OF BOARD APPOINTMENTS FOR DISTRICTS; AND TO REPEAL ACT 379 OF 2004 RELATING TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE GILBERT-SUMMIT RURAL COMMUNITY WATER DISTRICT IN LEXINGTON COUNTY.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

Procedure for appointment of board members revised

SECTION    1.    Section 6-13-30 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:

"Section 6-13-30.    (A)    The district shall be operated and managed by a board of directors to be known as the '__________ Rural Community Water District Board of __________ County' which shall constitute the governing body of the district. The board shall consist of five resident electors of the area who shall be appointed by the Governor, upon the recommendation of a majority of the county legislative delegation. The original appointments shall be for a term of two years for two appointees, for a term of four years for two appointees, and for a term of six years for one appointee. All terms after the initial appointments shall be for six years. All appointees shall hold office until their successors shall have been appointed and qualified. Any vacancy shall be filled in like manner as the original appointment for the unexpired portion of the term.

Immediately after appointment, the board shall meet and organize by the election of one of its members as chairman, one as vice-chairman, one as secretary, and one as treasurer. The offices of the secretary and treasurer may be combined in the discretion of the board.

(B)    Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (A), the board of a rural community water district created by this article may revise the size of the board to not less than five members nor more than ten members by the procedure set forth in this subsection. To revise the board membership, the board must hold a public hearing in the district and adopt a resolution to increase or reduce the board membership by a vote of not less than seventy-five percent of the existing board members. A resolution to increase the board must include the initial term of appointment for each seat added, not to exceed six years, and after that time the terms must be as provided for in subsection (A). A board member's seat that is eliminated because of a resolution reducing the size of the board must cease to exist upon the expiration of the term of the board member serving in the seat being eliminated."

Repeal

SECTION    2.    Act 379 of 2004 is repealed.

Time effective

SECTION    3.    This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

Ratified the 18th day of May, 2006.

Approved the 23rd day of May, 2006.