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WV Code § 8-29-18 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 29. Intergovernmental Relations -- Regional Airports|§8-29-18. Dissolution of Authority; Disposition of Assets After Payment of Debts

COMPENSATION; CONSTRUCTION.§8-29-18. Dissolution of authority; disposition of assets after payment of debts.In the event full and adequate provision is made for the payment of all of the debts of an authority, the participating municipalities or counties or any combination thereof which have contributed at least sixty percent of the total value of all moneys and property (the value of which property is determined as specified in section four of this article) contributed to the authority by the participating municipalities and counties may by resolution provide for the dissolution of the authority and for (1) the conveyance of the real and tangible personal property contributed to it to those participating municipalities and counties which contributed the same, (2) equitable distribution among the contributing municipalities and counties of any real and tangible personal property purchased or condemned by the authority or of the proceeds of sale thereof, or the fair value thereof, and (3) the equitable distribution of all moneys on hand to the participating municipalities and counties in direct proportion to the contribution of moneys by them.
WV Code § 8-29-19 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 29. Intergovernmental Relations -- Regional Airports|§8-29-19. Employees to Be Covered by Workmen's Compensation

All eligible employees of any authority shall be deemed to be within the workmen's compensation statute of this state and premiums on their compensation shall be paid by the authority as required by law.
WV Code § 8-29-20 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 29. Intergovernmental Relations -- Regional Airports|§8-29-20. Liberal Construction of Article

The purposes of this article are to provide for the acquisition, establishment, construction, equipping, improvement, financing, maintenance and operation of regional airports in a prudent and economical manner, and this article shall be liberally construed as giving to any authority created and established hereunder full and complete power reasonably required to give effect to the purposes hereof. The provisions of this article are in addition to and not in derogation of any power granted to or vested in municipalities and county courts under any Constitutional, statutory or charter provisions which may now or hereafter be in effect.
WV Code § 8-29A-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 29A. County Airport Authorities|§8-29A-1. County Airport Authority Authorized as Public Agency

The county commission of a county is hereby authorized to create and establish as a public agency a county airport authority to be known as the "County Airport Authority" for the purposes and in the manner hereinafter set forth.
WV Code § 8-29A-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 29A. County Airport Authorities|§8-29A-4. Funds; Accounting; Reporting

All funds received by the authority from whatever source shall be deposited in such bank or banks as the authority may direct and shall be withdrawn therefrom in such manner as the authority may direct. The authority shall keep strict account of all its receipts and expenditures and shall each quarter make a quarterly report to the county commission containing an itemized account of its receipts and disbursements during the preceding quarter. Such report shall be made within sixty days after the termination of the quarter.Within sixty days after the end of each fiscal year, the authority shall make an annual report containing an itemized statement of its receipts and disbursements for the preceding year, and such annual report shall be published as a Class II-0 legal advertisement in compliance with the provisions of article three, chapter fifty-nine of this code, and the publication area for such publication shall be the county. The books, records and accounts of the authority shall be subject to audit and examination by the office of the State Tax Commissioner of West Virginia and by any other proper public official or body in the manner provided by law.
WV Code § 8-29A-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 29A. County Airport Authorities|§8-29A-5. Full-Time Employees of the Authority to Be Public Employees

Any person who serves regularly as an employee, full time, on a salary basis, whose tenure is not restricted as to temporary or provisional appointment, in the service of, and whose compensation is payable in whole or in part by the authority, shall be deemed to be a public employee and shall be subject to any and all applicable provisions of law relating thereto, including, but not limited to, the workers' compensation act and the West Virginia public employees insurance act.
WV Code § 8-29A-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 29A. County Airport Authorities|§8-29A-6. Authority May Incur Indebtedness; County Not Liable for Indebtedness

The authority may incur any proper indebtedness and issue any obligations and give any security therefor which it may deem necessary or advisable in connection with carrying out its purposes. No statutory limitation with respect to the nature or amount of indebtedness which may be incurred by municipalities or other bodies shall apply to indebtedness of the authority. No indebtedness of any nature of the authority shall constitute an indebtedness of the county commission, nor of the county, or a charge against any property of the county. No obligation incurred by the authority shall give any right against any member of the county commission or any member of the board of the authority. The rights of creditors of the authority shall be solely against the authority as a corporate body and shall be satisfied only out of property held by it in its corporate capacity.
WV Code § 8-29A-7 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 29A. County Airport Authorities|§8-29A-7. Exemption From Taxes; Payment for Portion Used as Industrial Park

The authority shall be exempt from the payment of any taxes or fees to the state or any subdivisions thereof or any municipalities or to any officer or employee of the state or of any subdivision thereof or of any municipalities. The property of the authority shall be exempt from all local and municipal taxes. Bonds, notes, debentures and other evidence of indebtedness of the authority are declared to be issued for a public purpose and to be public instrumentalities, and, together with interest thereon, shall be exempt from taxes.It shall be the duty of the county assessor on July 1, of each year to ascertain what portion of the real and personal property of the authority, if any, is devoted to use as an industrial park and to appraise such property as if taxable. The assessor shall likewise determine the tax which would be levied upon such property if it were taxable. On August 1, of the year following such determination and February 1 thereafter, the authority shall pay unto the sheriff of the county a sum of money equal to that which would have been due if the property were taxable, which sums shall be distributed by the sheriff as if such sums were tax receipts.
WV Code § 8-29A-8 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 29A. County Airport Authorities|§8-29A-8. County Commission Authorized to Convey Present Airport Properties and Facilities to the Authority

Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the county commission of a county is hereby authorized to convey to the authority the present airport property owned by the county, if any, situate in the county, together with all the appurtenances and facilities therewith, such conveyance to be without consideration or for such price and upon such terms and conditions as the county commission shall deem proper.
WV Code § 8-29A-9 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 29A. County Airport Authorities|§8-29A-9. Disposition of Surplus

If the authority should realize a surplus, whether from operating the airport or leasing it for operation, over and above the amount required for the maintenance, improvement and operation of the airport and for meeting all required payments on its obligations, it shall set aside such reserve for future operations, improvements and contingencies as it shall deem proper and shall then apply the residue of such surplus, if any, to the payment of any recognized and established obligations not then due; and after all such recognized and established obligations have been paid off and discharged in full, the authority shall, at the end of each fiscal year, set aside the reserve for future operations, improvements and contingencies, as aforesaid, and then pay the residue of such surplus, if any, to the county commission, to be used by the county commission for general county purposes.
WV Code § 8-29A-10 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 29A. County Airport Authorities|§8-29A-10. Procedure for Dissolution of Authority

The authority may at any time pay off and discharge in full all of its indebtedness, obligations and liabilities, convey the airport properties, appurtenances and facilities to the county commission and be dissolved. Before making such conveyance of its properties, the authority shall give notice of its intention to do so and of its intention to be dissolved, and said notice shall be published as a Class I-0 legal advertisement in compliance with the provisions of article three, chapter fifty-nine of this code, and the publication area for such publication shall be the county. Affidavits from the publishers of the newspapers showing such publication shall be filed with the county commission before the deed conveying said properties is delivered. Any funds remaining in the hands of the authority at the time of the conveyance of said properties shall be by the authority paid over to the county commission to be used by it for purposes in connection with said airport. Upon the payment of its indebtedness, obligations and liabilities, the publishing of the notices aforesaid, the conveyance of its properties, and the paying over to the county commission of any funds remaining in its hands, the authority shall cause a certificate showing its dissolution to be executed under its name and seal and to be recorded in the office of the clerk of the county commission and thereupon its dissolution shall be complete.
WV Code § 8-29A-11 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 29A. County Airport Authorities|§8-29A-11. Purpose of Article; Liberal Construction; Article Cumulative

It is the purpose of this article to provide for the acquisition, construction, improvement, extension, maintenance and operation of a public airport and related facilities in a prudent and economical manner, and this article shall be liberally construed as giving to the authority full and complete power reasonably required to give effect to the purposes hereof. The provisions of this article are in addition to and not in derogation of any power existing in the county commission of a county under any Constitutional or statutory provisions which it may now have, or may hereafter acquire.
WV Code § 8-29B-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 29B. Airport Security|§8-29B-1. Legislative Findings and Purpose

The Legislature hereby finds and declares that there is an ever increasing need to eliminate the highjacking of aircraft, air piracy and other criminal and terrorist activities involving air passengers, airport personnel, aircraft and airport property and facilities. This article is enacted in view of this finding and the purpose of this article is to facilitate the providing of airport security.
WV Code § 8-29B-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 29B. Airport Security|§8-29B-2. Definitions

As used in this article:(1) "Aircraft" means any contrivance now known, or hereafter invented, and used for flight in the air and which is operated by an air carrier holding a certificate issued by the civil aeronautics board of the Department of Transportation of the United States.(2) "Airport" means any area of land or water which is used, or intended for use, for the landing and takeoff of aircraft, as defined above, and any appurtenant areas which are used, or intended for use, for airport buildings or other airport facilities or rights-of-way, together with all airport buildings and facilities located thereon.(3) "Airport operator" means a governing body, regional airport authority or county airport authority, under articles twenty-eight, twenty-nine or twenty-nine-a of this chapter, or a board, commission, authority or committee operating under any local act of the Legislature, charged with the operation and management of an airport.(4) "Airport police officer" means any individual assigned, appointed or designated by an airport operator, to serve as a police officer at an airport.
WV Code § 8-29B-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 29B. Airport Security|§8-29B-3. Rules and Regulations; Penalties

Each airport operator shall have plenary power and authority to manage and control the airport under its jurisdiction, to promulgate rules and regulations concerning the management and control of such airport and to enforce any such rules and regulations so promulgated. Any rules and regulations promulgated shall be printed and posted in a conspicuous public place on the airport premises. The violation of any such rule or regulation shall constitute a misdemeanor and, any person convicted of any such violation shall be punished by a fine of not less than $5 nor more than $100 or by imprisonment in jail for a period not exceeding thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Justices of the peace of the county shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the circuit court and other courts of record having criminal jurisdiction of any misdemeanor offenses arising under this article. Violation of any such rule or regulation which also constitutes the violation of any federal or state law or municipal ordinance may be prosecuted and punished as a violation of such federal or state law or municipal ordinance rather than under the provisions of this article. It shall be the duty of every airport operator in this state to promulgate all rules and regulations deemed necessary for airport security.
WV Code § 8-29B-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 29B. Airport Security|§8-29B-6. Required Security Measures

In addition to any and all other security measures which may be required by an airport operator, and unless otherwise provided by rules and regulations promulgated by such airport operator, at least one airport police officer must be present prior to, at the point of, and throughout the final passenger screening process prior to the boarding of an aircraft at an airport (other than a charter or commuter flight), and such police officer shall be present continuously until all doors on such aircraft being boarded are closed and such aircraft has taxied away from the boarding area. An airport police officer shall have the same duty and responsibility in the event such aircraft returns to the boarding area prior to takeoff.
WV Code § 8-30-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 30. Intergovernmental Relations -- Flood Control Projects|§8-30-1. Establishment and Operation of Flood Control Projects by Municipalities and Counties

Any municipality or county may establish, construct, maintain and operate for such municipality or county a flood control project, including the removal of accumulated snags and other debris from and the clearing and straightening of the channel of navigable streams and tributaries thereof, and any such municipality or county may accept any and all benefits, moneys, services and assistance from the federal government in connection with any agreement as authorized by federal statutes and laws relating to flood control, and any such municipality or county under such agreements as are required by section 701c, Title 33, United States Code or other federal statutes is hereby empowered and authorized to give assurances satisfactory to the secretary of the army or other proper federal authority that such municipality or county will: (a) Provide without cost to the United States, all lands, easements and right-of-ways necessary for the construction of the project; (b) hold and save the United States free from damages due to the construction works; and (c) maintain and operate all the works after completion in accordance with regulations prescribed by the secretary of the army.Any such municipality or county is hereby further empowered and authorized to levy, within all Constitutional and statutory limitations, for the maintenance or operation of a flood control project; to purchase land situate therein for the same; to institute condemnation proceedings for the acquiring of any land required under the flood control project; and to authorize the issuance and sale of bonds within all Constitutional and statutory limitations, as is provided under general law for the issuance and sale of bonds by municipalities and counties for public purposes generally. Any levy shall be equal and uniform throughout the municipality or county, as the case may be. Real or personal property or moneys may also be acquired for such purpose by gifts to such municipality or county.Any municipality or county is hereby empowered and authorized to adopt zoning ordinances restricting the use of the lands and the construction of buildings and structures within the flood control area and one hundred feet on each side thereof and to enforce such ordinances by fine or imprisonment, or both, in the circuit court of the county in which the offense occurred in the case of a county ordinance, or by injunction proceedings in the circuit court of the county in which the offense occurred. Prosecution for violation of any such municipal ordinance shall be as in any other municipal ordinance violation case.The power and authority granted by this section may be exercised by any municipality or county in cooperation with each other or separately where such flood control project is located, regardless of the sponsoring agency of such project.
WV Code § 8-31-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 31. Intergovernmental Relations -- Franchise Obligations|§8-31-1. Conditions to Granting of Franchise by Governing Body or County Court; Term of Franchise; Public Service Commission Power and Authority Not Affected

§8-31-1. Conditions to granting of franchise by governing body or county court; term of franchise; Public Service Commission power and authority not affected.Every municipality and every county court are hereby empowered and authorized to grant an exclusive or nonexclusive franchise to any person. No franchise, however, shall hereafter be granted by the governing body of any municipality or by the county court of any county where the application for such franchise has not been filed, with the recorder of such municipality or the clerk of such county court, at least thirty days prior to the time when it is to be acted upon by such governing body or county court, and where notice of such application, stating the object of such franchise, has not been given by publication thereof as a Class II legal advertisement in compliance with the provisions of article three, chapter fifty-nine of this code, for which publication the publication area shall be the municipality or the county, as the case may be, wherein such franchise is to be granted. No such franchise shall be granted within thirty days after the application has been filed, nor until an opportunity has been given any person interested in the granting or refusing of such franchise to be heard. No such franchise shall hereafter be granted by any municipality or county court for a longer term than fifty years: Provided, That nothing in this section shall prevent the renewal of any such franchise for a term not exceeding fifty years, when the same shall have expired. No such franchise hereafter granted for any longer term than fifty years shall be of any force or validity. Notwithstanding the provisions of this article or any other provisions of this chapter, other general law or any charter, the failure or inability of any person to obtain from any municipality or county court a franchise for the rendering of a public service shall in no way whatever affect the power and authority granted to, and the duties and obligations imposed upon, such person under the provisions of chapter twenty-four of this code or by the Public Service Commission.
WV Code § 8-31-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 31. Intergovernmental Relations -- Franchise Obligations|§8-31-2. Compelling Compliance With Franchise Obligations; Damages; Forfeiture

§8-31-2. Compelling compliance with franchise obligations; damages; forfeiture.When any person has obtained or shall hereafter obtain any franchise, and the terms, conditions or manner of exercising such franchise are embodied in the ordinance of the municipality or the order of the county court granting such franchise, or are otherwise either voluntarily assumed, or by law imposed upon such person, then and in each of such cases the circuit court of the county (except so far as the powers herein conferred upon the circuit court are, by chapter twenty-four of this code, conferred upon the Public Service Commission) in which the municipality or the major portion of the territory thereof is located or for which the county court acted shall have power by mandamus to compel such person, and the successors and assigns of such person, to use and exercise such franchise in accordance with the lawful terms and conditions and in the manner so prescribed in such ordinance or order or otherwise lawfully so defined or assumed, and to do and perform each and every lawful obligation or duty attached to such franchise, whether such obligation or duty be voluntarily assumed or imposed by law.Such mandamus may be awarded at the instance of such municipality or county, and this section shall not be construed to deprive such municipality or county, or any inhabitant thereof, of any other remedy to compel such person to comply with the terms, conditions and agreements of such franchise, or of the right to recover damages for noncompliance therewith or to affect, remove or lessen the liability of such person to forfeiture of such franchise for failure so to use and exercise such franchise.