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W. Va. Code § 16-4C-19 — WV Code / Chapter 16 / Article 4C / Section 19
§16-4C-19. Obstructing or causing bodily injury to emergency medical service personnel; criminal penalties.
Status: in_force

(a) It is unlawful for any person to intentionally obstruct or interfere with any emergency medical service agency personnel engaged in the act of delivering or administering emergency medical services. Any person violating the provisions of this subsection is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or confined in the county or regional jail for a period not more than one year, or both fined and confined.

(b) It is unlawful for any person to willfully cause bodily injury to any person designated to be an emergency medical personnel engaged in the act of delivering or administering emergency medical services. Any person violating the provisions of this subsection is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be confined in a state correctional facility not less than one nor more than ten years or fined not more than $5,000, or both fined and confined.

(c) Nothing in this section may be construed to prevent law-enforcement officials from controlling traffic and otherwise maintaining order at the scene of an accident, injury or illness where an emergency medical service agency is rendering services.

(d) No person may willfully fail or refuse to comply with a lawful order or direction of any emergency medical service agency personnel engaged in the act of delivering or administering emergency medical services, relating to directing, controlling or regulating traffic, so long as such order or direction is conveyed by a retro-reflective hand signing device. Any person violating the provisions of this subsection is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof: (1) For a first offense shall be fined not more than $100; (2) for a second offense occurring within one year of a previous conviction shall be fined not more than $200; and (3) for a third and subsequent offense shall be fined not more than $500.
W. Va. Code § 33-1-1 — WV Code / Chapter 33 / Article 1 / Section 1
§33-1-1. Insurance.
Status: in_force

Insurance is a contract whereby one undertakes to indemnify another or to pay a specified amount upon determinable contingencies.
W. Va. Code § 10-2A-11 — WV Code / Chapter 10 / Article 2A / Section 11
§10-2A-11. Interest rate and life of bonds; redemption; how payable; form; denominations; negotiability; surplus funds; additional bonds authorized; interim certificates.
Status: in_force

Such revenue bonds shall bear interest at not more than six per cent per annum, payable annually or at shorter intervals, and shall mature at such time or times not exceeding thirty years from the date thereof, as may be determined by resolution of the board. Such bonds may be made redeemable before maturity, at the option of the board, at not more than the par value thereof plus five per cent, under such terms and conditions as may be fixed by the resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds. The principal and interest of the bonds may be made payable in any lawful medium. Said resolution shall determine the form of the bonds, including the interest coupons to be attached thereto, if any, and shall fix the denomination or denominations of such bonds, and the place or places of the payment of the principal and interest thereof, which may be at any bank or trust company within or without the state, or at such other place as said resolution may provide. The bonds shall contain a statement on their face that the board shall not be obligated to pay the same, or the interest thereon, except from the special fund derived from the net revenue of the athletic establishment, or a certain pro rata part thereof, as the case may be. All such bonds shall be, and shall have, and are hereby declared to have all the qualities and incidents of negotiable instruments, under the Negotiable Instruments Law of this state. Provision may be made for the registration of any of the bonds in the name of the owner as to principal alone. Bonds shall be executed in such manner as the board may direct. The bonds shall be sold by the board in such manner as may be determined to be for the best interest of the board: Provided, however, That said bonds shall not be negotiated at a price lower than a price which when computed to maturity upon standard tables of bond values will show a net return of six per cent per annum to the purchaser upon the amount paid therefor. Any surplus of the proceeds from the sale of such bonds over and above the cost of such athletic establishment shall be paid into the sinking fund hereinafter provided. If the proceeds of the bonds shall be less than the cost of the athletic establishment, additional bonds may in like manner be issued to provide the amount of such deficit, and unless otherwise provided in the resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds first issued, or in the trust indenture hereinafter authorized, shall be deemed to be of same issue, and shall be entitled to payment without preference or priority of the bonds first issued, but such preference or priority shall not extend to an amount exceeding ten per cent of the original issue. Prior to the preparation of the definite bonds, interim certificates may, under like restrictions, be issued with or without coupons exchangeable for definite bonds upon the issuance of the latter.
W. Va. Code § 3-4A-3 — WV Code / Chapter 3 / Article 4A / Section 3
§3-4A-3. Procedure for adopting electronic voting systems.
Status: in_force

An electronic voting system that has been approved in accordance with section eight of this article may be adopted for use in general, primary and special elections in any county by the following procedure and not otherwise:

By a majority of the members of the county commission voting to adopt the same at a public meeting regularly called for that purpose: Provided, That the meeting be held not less than six months prior to the next scheduled primary or general election, with notice published as a Class II-0 legal advertisement in compliance with the provisions of article three, chapter fifty-nine of this code. The publication area for such publication shall be the county involved.
W. Va. Code § 33-29-7 — WV Code / Chapter 33 / Article 29 / Section 7
§33-29-7. Powers of the commissioner.
Status: in_force

The commissioner may authorize a lower score than the Flesch reading ease score required in subdivision (1), subsection (a), section five of this article whenever, in his sole discretion, he finds that a lower score: (a) Will provide a more accurate reflection of the readability of a policy form; (b) is warranted by the nature of a particular policy form or type or class of policy forms; or (c) is caused by certain policy language which is drafted to conform to the requirements of any state law, regulation or agency interpretation.
W. Va. Code § 19-19-3 — WV Code / Chapter 19 / Article 19 / Section 3
§19-19-3. Temporary change of agricultural operations.
Status: in_force

The change of agricultural land use to a differing agricultural use, including rotation or lying fallow from time to time, shall not constitute abandonment as agricultural land or limit the change to any other agricultural use.
W. Va. Code § 5A-12-4 — WV Code / Chapter 5A / Article 12 / Section 4
§5A-12-4. Fleet Management Division Fund.
Status: in_force

The special revenue account, known as the “Fleet Management Office Fund”, previously created by §5A-3-52 of this code, shall terminate effective July 1, 2018. On and after July 1, 2018, all funds previously belonging to the Fleet Management Office Fund shall transfer to the special revenue account which shall be known as the “Fleet Management Division Fund” which shall be created in the State Treasury, and shall be administered by the director. Expenditures are authorized from collections but are to be made only in accordance with appropriation by the Legislature and in accordance with §12-3-1 et seq. of this code and upon fulfillment of the requirements of §11B-2-1 et seq. of this code. Any balance remaining in the special revenue account at the end of any state fiscal year does not revert to the General Revenue Fund but remains in the special revenue account and may be used solely in a manner consistent with this article.
W. Va. Code § 12-7-14 — WV Code / Chapter 12 / Article 7 / Section 14
§12-7-14. Exemption from certain requirements; audit.
Status: in_force

In order to provide excellent investment opportunities and to effectively implement the new millennium fund, the investment activity and the new millennium fund activity provided by this article shall be exempt from the bidding and public sale requirements, from the approval of contractual agreements by the department of finance and administration or the attorney general and from the requirements of chapter five-a of this code. The transactions provided by this article shall be subject to an annual audit by an independent firm of certified public accountants.
W. Va. Code § 31C-5-4 — WV Code / Chapter 31C / Article 5 / Section 4
§31C-5-4. Compensation of officials; and conflicts of interests.
Status: in_force

(a) No officer, director or committee member, other than an employee, may be compensated for services, except as provided in section one, article five of this chapter. However, providing reasonable life, health, accident and similar insurance protection shall not be considered compensation. Directors, officers and committee members may be reimbursed for necessary expenses incidental to the performance of official business of the credit union.

(b) No director, committee member, officer, agent or employee of the credit union shall in any manner, directly or indirectly, participate in the deliberation upon or the determination of any question affecting that person's pecuniary interest or the pecuniary interest of any corporation, partnership or association (other than the credit union) in which that person is directly or indirectly interested.
W. Va. Code § 15-1E-72 — WV Code / Chapter 15 / Article 1E / Section 72
§15-1E-72. Vacation of suspension.
Status: in_force

(a) Before the vacation of the suspension of a special court-martial sentence, which as approved includes a bad-conduct discharge, or of any general court-martial sentence, the officer having special court-martial jurisdiction over the probationer shall hold a hearing on an alleged violation of probation. The probationer shall be represented at the hearing by military counsel if the probationer so desires.

(b) The record of the hearing and the recommendation of the officer having special court-martial jurisdiction shall be sent for action to the officer exercising general court-martial jurisdiction over the probationer. If the officer vacates the suspension, any unexecuted part of the sentence, except a dismissal, shall be executed, subject to applicable restrictions in this article.

(c) The suspension of any other sentence may be vacated by any authority competent to convene, for the command in which the accused is serving or assigned, a court of the kind that imposed the sentence.
W. Va. Code § 8-19-17 — WV Code / Chapter 8 / Article 19 / Section 17
§8-19-17. Grants, loans, advances and agreements.
Status: in_force

PART V. GRANTS, LOANS, ADVANCES AND AGREEMENTS;

CUMULATIVE AUTHORITY.

As an alternative to, or in conjunction with, the issuance of revenue bonds authorized by this article, any municipality or county commission is hereby empowered and authorized to accept loans or grants and procure loans or temporary advances evidenced by notes or other negotiable instruments issued in the manner, and subject to the privileges and limitations, set forth with respect to bonds authorized to be issued under the provisions of this article, or otherwise enter into agreement, including, but not limited to, agreements of indemnity, assurance or guarantee with respect to, and for the purpose of financing part or all of, the cost of acquisition, construction, establishment, extension or equipment of waterworks or electric power systems and the construction of additions, betterments and improvements to existing waterworks systems or to existing electric power systems, and for the other purposes herein authorized, from or with any authorized agency of the state or from the United States of America or any federal or public agency or department of the United States or any private agency, corporation or individual, which loans or temporary advances, including the interest thereon, or the municipality's or county's financial obligations contained in such other agreements, which need not bear interest, may be repaid out of the proceeds of bonds authorized to be issued under the provisions of this article, the revenues of or proceeds from the said waterworks system or electric power system or grants to the municipality or county commission from any agency of the state or from the United States of America or any federal or public agency or department of the United States or any private agency, corporation or individual or from any combination of such sources of payment, and may be secured in the manner provided in sections eight, nine and sixteen of this article to secure bonds issued under the provisions of this article, but shall not otherwise be subject to the requirements of sections eleven and twelve of this article, and to enter into the necessary contracts and agreements to carry out the purposes hereof with any agency of the state, the United States of America or any federal or public agency or department of the United States, or with any private agency, corporation or individual.

In no event shall any such loan or temporary advance or agreement be a general obligation of the municipality or county and such loans or temporary advances or agreements, including the interest thereon, shall be paid solely from the sources specified in this section.
W. Va. Code § 22-4-27 — WV Code / Chapter 22 / Article 4 / Section 27
§22-4-27. Exception for certain existing quarries.
Status: in_force

(a) Quarries that are in operation on or before the effective date of this article, shall comply with the following:

(1) Within two years of the effective date of this article, all quarry operations shall submit to the director a quarrying and reclamation plan to bring the facility into compliance with the requirements of this article and any rules promulgated thereunder. These quarrying and reclamation plans shall include a reasonable schedule, based on site specific conditions and the nature of the quarry operation, to allow a transitional time period to bring the operation into compliance with current reclamation standards. Quarry areas that are disturbed on the effective date of this article are exempt from further reclamation requirements. For the purpose of this section, disturbed areas include existing highwalls and all material vertically below the surface of the area disturbed.

(2) Preblast survey and blasting plan requirements as provided for existing quarries as provided by section twelve of this article.

(3) Groundwater protection monitoring required by section fourteen of this article will not be required if the director verifies the operator's certification that no groundwater problems at the quarry have occurred in the previous five years.

(b) The exclusions of this section are also applicable to quarries permitted on or before the effective date of this article and consolidated or renewed pursuant to subsection (f) of section five of this article.

(c) Quarries in operation as of the effective date of this article for the past five years without a serious permit violation, shall participate in the bond pooling fund created in section twenty-two of this article. All other operations shall comply with the bonding requirements of section twenty of this article.
W. Va. Code § 16A-15-3 — WV Code / Chapter 16A / Article 15 / Section 3
§16A-15-3. Insurers.
Status: in_force

Nothing in this act shall be construed to require an insurer or a health plan, whether paid for by state funds or private funds, to provide coverage for medical cannabis.
W. Va. Code § 14-1-29 — WV Code / Chapter 14 / Article 1 / Section 29
§14-1-29. Debts due state from sheriffs or other officers -- Mode and terms of sale.
Status: in_force

The sheriff to whom such claim or account is certified under the provisions of this article shall on the first day of the term of the circuit court of his county succeeding the publication of such notice, make sale of such claim or account to the highest bidder, and, in case the amount bid therefor be less than $100, he shall require the payment thereof in cash; and if the amount bid therefor be more than $100, he shall require one third thereof to be paid in cash, and shall receive the notes of the purchaser for the residue in two equal installments, payable respectively in six and twelve months, with legal interest thereon until paid. Such notes shall have the names of at least two persons signed thereto as sureties, whom the prosecuting attorney of the county, by indorsement on the back of such notes, shall certify are in his opinion responsible and solvent.
W. Va. Code § 48-1-241A — WV Code / Chapter 48 / Article 1 / Section 241A
§48-1-241a. Shared physical custody defined.
Status: in_force

“Shared physical custody” means a child has periods of residing with, and being under the supervision of, each parent consistent with the provisions of §48-9-206 of this code: Provided , That physical custody shall be shared by the parents in such a way as to assure a child has frequent and continuing contact with both parents. Such frequent and continuing contact with both parents is rebuttably presumed to be in the best interests of the child unless the evidence shows otherwise.
W. Va. Code § 64-9-5 — WV Code / Chapter 64 / Article 9 / Section 5
§64-9-5. Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists.
Status: in_force

(a) The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 28, 2025, authorized under the authority of §30-27-6 of this code, modified by the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on September 19, 2025, relating to the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists (qualifications, training, examination, and certification of instructors in barbering, hair styling, nail technology, aesthetics, waxing, and cosmetology, 3 CSR 02), is authorized with the amendments.

(b) The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 28, 2025, authorized under the authority of §30-27-6 of this code, modified by the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on September 19, 2025, relating to the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists (operational standards for schools of barbering, cosmetology, hair styling, nail technology, and aesthetics, 3 CSR 04), is authorized.

(c) The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 28, 2025, authorized under the authority of §30-27-6 of this code, modified by the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on September 23, 2025, relating to the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists (barber apprenticeship, 3 CSR 13), is authorized.

(d) The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 28, 2025, authorized under the authority of §30-27-6 of this code, relating to the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists (waxing specialists, 3 CSR 14), is authorized.
W. Va. Code § 32B-1-2 — WV Code / Chapter 32B / Article 1 / Section 2
§32B-1-2. Unlawful commodity transactions.
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in section three or four of this article, a person shall not sell or purchase or offer to sell or purchase any commodity under any commodity contract or commodity option, nor shall a person offer to enter into or enter into a contract as a seller or purchaser any commodity contract or any commodity option.
W. Va. Code § 21-12-7 — WV Code / Chapter 21 / Article 12 / Section 7
§21-12-7. Issuance of permit; certificate of inspection; availability to public.
Status: in_force

If, after inspection, a commercial bungee jumping site, together with the jump platform and equipment, is found to comply with the rules of the division, the division shall issue a permit to operate. The permit shall be in the form of a certificate of inspection and shall be kept in the records of any operator or owner for a three-year period and shall be readily accessible to the public for inspection at any reasonable time at the commercial bungee jumping site or where a commercial bungee jump is located. A copy of certificate, showing the last date of inspection, shall be affixed to the bungee jumping platform upon issuance, or at any other location designated by the commissioner of the Division of Labor: Provided, That the division shall take final action upon all completed permit applications within thirty days of receipt if the application is uncontested, or within ninety days if the application is contested.
W. Va. Code § 61-12-10A — WV Code / Chapter 61 / Article 12 / Section 10A
§61-12-10a. Costs of transportation of bodies; when state will pay; amount of payment.
Status: in_force

Whenever an examination of a body is ordered pursuant to §61-12-8 and §61-12-10 of this code and the body of the deceased is transported to the central laboratory or other place of examination, the reasonable cost of the transportation shall be paid by the state out of funds appropriated to or for the use of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Transportation at state expense shall be provided from the place where the body is being kept at the time the examination is ordered to the central laboratory or other place of examination, and, upon completion of the examination, to the place designated by the person entitled to possession of the body: Provided , That if the body is to be returned a greater distance than it was taken for the examination, the state shall only be obligated for the cost of return of the body equal to or less than that incurred to take the body for the examination. The payment shall be of a reasonable amount set by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, including, but not limited to, payment of any part of the total cost as the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner allows.
W. Va. Code § 11-10-14C — WV Code / Chapter 11 / Article 10 / Section 14C
§11-10-14c. Prompt payment of refunds of personal income taxes.
Status: in_force

(a) General rule. -- The net amount of a lawful, mathematically correct, uncontested claim for refund of any tax imposed by article twenty-one of this chapter shall be refunded to the taxpayer within ninety days after such a claim for refund is filed with the Tax Commissioner. If the fund is not made to a taxpayer within the ninety days, the Tax Commissioner shall pay interest, at the rate specified in section seventeen-a of this article, for the period commencing with the date the claim for refund was received by the Tax Commissioner until the date the state warrant for the refund amount is issued, notwithstanding any provisions of section seventeen of this article to the contrary.

(b) Definitions. -- For purposes of this section:

(1) A claim for refund is "filed with the Tax Commissioner" on the date it is physically received by the state Tax Division.

(2) A "lawful, mathematically correct, uncontested claim for refund" is one that is timely filed; is signed by the appropriate taxpayer or taxpayers; is mathematically correct; is supported by any necessary documentation; and appears on its face to be correct.

(c) The payment of a claim for refund under this section shall not bar the Tax Commissioner from later issuing an assessment to recover any amount erroneously refunded, plus statutory interest and any applicable additions to tax, within two years after the date the refund was made: Provided, That if the refund or any part thereof was obtained by fraud, the assessment may be made at any time.

(d) This section shall apply only to claims for refund of personal income taxes filed after January 1, 1997.