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The record of this law\u2019s original creation isn\u2019t available online. It has been modified 4 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1968, chapter 659; in 2005, chapter 517<\/a>; in 2009, chapter 467<\/a>; in 2013, chapters 756<\/a> and 793<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":375182,"section_number":"62.1-44.7","catch_line":"Board continued","order_by":null,"url":"\/62.1-44.7\/"}],"permalink":{"id":1497413,"object_type":"law","relational_id":375235,"identifier":"62.1-73","token":"62.1\/6\/62.1-73","url":"\/62.1-73\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/62.1-73\/","token":"62.1\/6\/62.1-73","dublin_core":{"Title":"Appointment and removal of Virginia members of Commission","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 62.1-73","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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 \u00a7 62.1-44.7<\/a>. 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.<\/p>

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