§ 30-302. (For contingent expiration, see Editor's note) Membership; terms.
The Commission shall have a total membership of 15 members that shall consist of eight legislative members, four nonlegislative citizen members, and three ex officio members. Members shall be appointed as follows: three members of the Senate, to be appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules; five members of the House of Delegates, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates in accordance with the principles of proportional representation contained in the Rules of the House of Delegates; two nonlegislative citizen members with expertise in energy issues, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates; two nonlegislative citizen members with expertise in energy issues, to be appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules; and one member of the staff of the State Corporation Commission, to be appointed by the Commissioners of the State Corporation Commission, the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality or his designee, and the Director of the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy or his designee. The one member of the staff of the State Corporation Commission, the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality or his designee, and the Director of the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy or his designee, all to serve ex officio with nonvoting privileges.
Legislative members of the Commission shall serve terms coincident with their terms of office and ex officio members shall serve at the pleasure of the appointing authority. Nonlegislative citizen members of the Committee shall serve for terms of four years. Appointments to fill vacancies, other than by expiration of a term, shall be for the unexpired terms and shall be made in the same manner as the original appointment. Nonlegislative citizen members shall not be eligible to serve more than two consecutive four-year terms. The remainder of any term to which a member is appointed to fill a vacancy shall not constitute a term in determining the member's eligibility for reappointment.
The Commission shall elect a chairman and vice-chairman from among its membership who shall be members of the General Assembly.
(2008, c. 882.)
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