Council shall, as soon as practicable, proceed under the provisions of the statute permitting it, West Virginia Code Chapter 8, Article 20, to combine the existing waterworks and sewerage systems into a single entity. Such combined waterworks and sewerage system shall be under the supervision and control of an independent utility board as authorized by the provisions of West Virginia Code 8-20-18, from which members of City Council and City department heads shall be excluded, and such utility board shall have and be limited to all the powers, authority and duties granted to and imposed upon a board as provided in West Virginia Code Chapter 8, Article 16. The number of members of said utility board and the manner of appointment of said members shall be determined by ordinance. From and after the adoption of said ordinance, all the powers and duties of the existing Sanitary Board shall pass to and vest in the newly created Utility Board and said Sanitary Board shall be dissolved.
(Amended 5-14-96.)