STATE EX REL. MOORE v. BLANKENSHIP

No. 13596.

217 S.E.2d 232 (1975)

STATE of West Virginia at the relation of Arch A. MOORE, Jr., as Governor of the State of West Virginia and Arch A. Moore, Jr., as a citizen and taxpayer of the State of West Virginia v. C. A. BLANKENSHIP, Clerk of the House of Delegates of West Virginia.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

July 1, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Spilman, Thomas, Battle & Klostermeyer, W. Victor Ross, Charleston, for relator.

Victor A. Barone, Jack M. McCarty, Charleston, for respondent.


NEELY, Justice:

This is the third in a series of cases which began in 1973 asking this Court to interpret W.Va.Const. art. VI, § 51, a provision ratified in 1968 and popularly called the Modern Budget Amendment. Art. VI, § 51 requires the Governor to prepare the State's budget and cause to be introduced into the Legislature a "budget bill" upon which the Legislature must finally act before it may...

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