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WV Code § 13-1-23 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 13. Public Bonded Indebtedness|Article 1. Bond Issues for Original Indebtedness|§13-1-23. No Law, Order, Ordinance, Resolution, Proceeding or Publication Necessary Except as Prescribed by This Article

This article shall, without reference to any other act of the Legislature, be full authority for the issuance and sale of bonds in this article authorized. No order, ordinance, resolution or proceeding in respect to the issuance of any bond under this article shall be necessary, except such as are required by this article. No publication of any order, ordinance, resolution or proceeding relating to the issuance of such bonds shall be necessary except such as is required by this article. Any publication prescribed hereby may be made in any newspaper conforming to the terms of this article, without regard to designation thereof as the official journal of the political division.
WV Code § 13-1-24 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 13. Public Bonded Indebtedness|Article 1. Bond Issues for Original Indebtedness|§13-1-24. Legal Status of Bonds

Bonds issued under this article, except to the extent that their status shall be affected by registration made in pursuance of this article, shall have all the qualities of negotiable paper under the law merchant and shall not be invalid for any irregularity or defect in the proceedings for the issuance thereof, and shall be incontestable in the hands of bona fide purchasers or holders thereof for value.
WV Code § 13-1-25 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 13. Public Bonded Indebtedness|Article 1. Bond Issues for Original Indebtedness|§13-1-25. Copy of Proceedings to Be Transmitted to Attorney General for Approval or Disapproval; Publication of Approval or Disapproval

The governing body of any political division issuing bonds under this article shall, as soon as practicable after the result of the election authorizing their issuance shall have been officially ascertained, transmit to the Attorney General a duly certified copy of all orders, ordinances, proclamations, notices, advertisements, affidavits, resolutions and records of all the proceedings connected with or pertaining to such bond issue, and any other matters relative thereto which the Attorney General may require. The Attorney General shall thereupon either approve or disapprove the validity of such bond issue, and shall immediately notify the governing body of the political division which authorized the issuance of the bonds of his action by mail, and as soon as practicable notify the people of such political division of his approval or disapproval of such bond issue, by causing notice thereof to be published as a Class II 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 political division.
WV Code § 13-1-26 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 13. Public Bonded Indebtedness|Article 1. Bond Issues for Original Indebtedness|§13-1-26. Review in Supreme Court of Appeals of Action of Attorney General

For a period of ten days from and after the date of the last publication of the notice of the Attorney General of his action in approving or disapproving the validity of any bond issue as provided in the preceding section, any person in interest, or any taxpayer within the political division for which the bonds are authorized to be issued, may present his or its petition to the Supreme Court of Appeals or to a judge thereof in vacation, praying that the action of the Attorney General in approving or disapproving such bond issue, as aforesaid, be reversed or modified; and if the court, or such judge thereof in vacation, be of the opinion to hear and determine the matters in such petition set out, the case shall be proceeded with as in cases of original jurisdiction; but the petitioner shall file with the clerk of the court a bond, with security to be approved by him and in such sum as the court or judge may fix, for the payment of such costs as may be awarded against him in said court. The clerk of the court shall forthwith notify the Attorney General and the governing body of the political division which authorized the issuance of the bonds of the action taken by the court or judge in vacation upon such petition, and for the hearing thereof the Attorney General shall file with the clerk of said court all papers, documents, evidence and records, or certified copies thereof, which were before him and on which he based his approval or disapproval; and before the day fixed for final hearing, he shall file with the clerk of said court a written statement of his reasons for the approval or disapproval of the bond issue. Upon the submission of the case, the court shall decide the matters in controversy and enter such order thereon as to it may seem to be just.
WV Code § 13-1-27 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 13. Public Bonded Indebtedness|Article 1. Bond Issues for Original Indebtedness|§13-1-27. Bond Issue and Tax to Pay Bonds to Be Incontestable Upon Failure to File Petition for Review or Dismissal Thereof

If no person in interest or taxpayer shall within ten days from and after the date of the last publication of the notice of the Attorney General of his action in approving or disapproving the validity of any bond issue, as provided in this article, present his or its petition to the Supreme Court of Appeals or to a judge thereof in vacation praying that the action of the Attorney General be reversed or modified, as hereinbefore provided, or if such petition be filed and the court or judge be of the opinion not to hear and determine the matters in such petition set out, the action of the Attorney General shall be final and no other appeal shall be allowed therefrom; and the bond issue approved by him shall become incontestable and shall be a valid and binding obligation upon the authority issuing the same and upon the taxable property within the political division which authorized the bond issue by the vote of the people therein; and no one shall thereafter have the right to contest in any court or in any action or proceeding the legality of any election held under this article, the bond issue provided for, or the tax required to pay the same, for any cause whatsoever.
WV Code § 13-1-28 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 13. Public Bonded Indebtedness|Article 1. Bond Issues for Original Indebtedness|§13-1-28. Indorsement on Bonds by Attorney General

After ten days shall have elapsed from and after the date of the last publication of the Attorney General's notice provided for in section twenty-five of this article, if no proceeding be pending to have his approval of the bond issue reversed and modified, the Attorney General shall indorse upon each and every bond of the issue so approved by him his certificate to the effect that such bond has been approved by him by virtue of the authority vested in him by this article; that notice of his approval was published as required by section twenty-five of this article; that ten days have elapsed since the date of the last publication of such notice; that there has been no appeal from his decision to the Supreme Court of Appeals; and that the bond has become incontestable and is a binding obligation upon the authority issuing the same and upon the taxable property within the political division, and that the validity of such bond shall not be contested thereafter in any court or in any action or proceeding for any cause whatsoever.
WV Code § 13-1-29 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 13. Public Bonded Indebtedness|Article 1. Bond Issues for Original Indebtedness|§13-1-29. Costs of Proceedings and Expenses of Attorney General to Be Paid Out of Proceeds of Bonds or General Fund

The cost of publishing the notice to taxpayers as herein provided, and the costs of certifying and copying all records, papers and proceedings to be used by the Attorney General in passing upon the validity of the bond issue, and all necessary expense incurred by the Attorney General in connection with any bond issue, shall be paid by the authority issuing such bonds out of the proceeds arising from the sale thereof, if the same be finally approved, and if the bond issue be disapproved, such expense shall be paid out of the General Fund of such authority.
WV Code § 13-1-30 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 13. Public Bonded Indebtedness|Article 1. Bond Issues for Original Indebtedness|§13-1-30. Files and Records to Be Kept by Attorney General

The Attorney General shall keep on file in his office the papers pertaining to any bond issue submitted to him and shall record his findings of approval or disapproval in a well-bound book kept for that purpose in his office, which shall be open for inspection by anyone in interest during business hours.
WV Code § 13-1-31 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 13. Public Bonded Indebtedness|Article 1. Bond Issues for Original Indebtedness|§13-1-31. Proceedings to Issue Bonds Under Authority of Prior Statutes; Debts Heretofore Incurred

Nothing contained in this article shall affect in any way proceeding heretofore begun by the governing body of any political division to issue bonds under the authority of any statutes of this state heretofore in force. Such proceedings may be completed under the statute under which the same were begun and under the provisions of this article so far as the same can be made applicable thereto. Nor shall anything contained in this article invalidate any indebtedness heretofore incurred under a law then existing.
WV Code § 13-1-32 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 13. Public Bonded Indebtedness|Article 1. Bond Issues for Original Indebtedness|§13-1-32. Amount of Indebtedness Authorized by §13-1-3 May Be Increased by Special Act as to Municipalities and Independent School Districts; Bonds for Assessments Against Abutting Property Excepted From This Article

Notwithstanding the provisions of section three of this article, when by a special act of the Legislature any municipality or independent school district is authorized to become indebted for any purpose or purposes in a greater amount than is fixed by said section three, bonds may be issued under this article by such municipality or independent school district in an amount not exceeding that fixed by such special act. This article shall not affect any general or special law providing for the issuing of bonds for any improvement to be paid for in whole or in part by assessment against abutting property.
WV Code § 13-1-33 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 13. Public Bonded Indebtedness|Article 1. Bond Issues for Original Indebtedness|§13-1-33. Bonds Exempt From Taxation

All bonds of the State of West Virginia or of any political subdivision thereof issued hereunder, or under the provisions of chapter eight of this code, shall be exempt from all taxation by the state or by any political subdivision thereof.
WV Code § 13-1-34 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 13. Public Bonded Indebtedness|Article 1. Bond Issues for Original Indebtedness|§13-1-34. Bonded Indebtedness of School Districts; Annual Tax to Be Levied and Collected to Pay Same; Definition of Value

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article or of any other law to the contrary, every school district, by and through its Board of Education, shall levy and collect in each year a direct annual tax on all taxable property in such school district sufficient to pay the principle and interest maturing in such year, together with any deficiencies for prior years, within, and not exceeding thirty-four years, on any bonded indebtedness of such school district, now or hereafter contracted, not to exceed five percent of the value of the taxable property therein to be ascertained in accordance with section 8 of article X of the Constitution, which levies shall be laid separate and apart and in addition to the maximum rates provided for tax levies by school districts on the several classes of property specified in section 1, article X of the Constitution, but in the same proportions as such maximum rates are levied on the several classes of property, and which tax may be levied outside the limits fixed by said section 1, article X of the Constitution.(b) The term "value" as used in this section and in section 8, article X of the Constitution, is used in the same context that the term "value" is used in section 1, article X of the Constitution, and means the "worth in money" of a piece of property -- its market value for ad valorem property tax purposes.
WV Code § 13-2-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 13. Public Bonded Indebtedness|Article 2. Refunding Bonds|§13-2-1. What Political Divisions May Issue Refunding Bonds; When Issued

Any county, by and through its county commission, either for and on behalf of the county or for and on behalf of any magisterial district or group of magisterial districts therein; any municipal corporation, by and through its council or other governing body in lieu thereof; or any school district, or any independent school district, by and through its Board of Education or other fiscal body in lieu thereof, may, in the manner and subject to the limitations and conditions contained in this article, issue and sell its bonds for the purpose of refunding the bonds of such political division which have become or are becoming due and payable and for the discharge of which there are or will be when the bonds mature no funds or insufficient funds available; or when, in the opinion of the governing body of the political division obligated to the payment of such bonds, the rate of levy necessary to provide funds for their discharge will impose excessive taxes upon the taxpayers of such political division; or for the purpose of providing for the payment of outstanding bonds in advance of the maturity or redemption thereof through the making of a deposit as provided in section four of this article; or for the purpose of rendering outstanding bonds not due when such outstanding bonds are to be presented for payment before maturity by the exercise of option provisions or by agreement with the holders thereof. Such refunding bonds may be issued bearing the same or a higher or lesser rate of interest than the bonds to be refunded. Except to the extent that additional taxes for such purpose have been approved by the voters and the levy of such additional taxes provided for in the manner stipulated in sections seven through fourteen of article one of this chapter, no such refunding bonds shall be issued bearing a higher rate of interest than the bonds being refunded or shall be issued in a principal amount exceeding the principal amount of the bonds to be refunded unless the amount of debt service payable on such refunding bonds in each year is equal to or less than the amount of taxes expected to be available therefor as shall be certified by the chairman of the West Virginia Municipal Bond Commission prior to the issuance of such refunding bonds. The amount of taxes expected to be available in each year for purposes of this section shall be based upon the rates of levy stipulated in the order directing the election at which the issuance of the bonds being refunded was approved by the voters and upon the most recent assessed valuation of the affected property prior to such election. In the event only a portion of the bonds provided for such order are being refunded or have been issued, an appropriate reduction shall be made in the amount of taxes expected to be available based upon the actual debt service requirements of bonds which have been issued but are not being refunded and the estimated debt service requirements of bonds which have not been issued.
WV Code § 13-2-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 13. Public Bonded Indebtedness|Article 2. Refunding Bonds|§13-2-2. Terms of Refunding Bonds; Time, Place and Amount of Payments

Upon determining to issue such refunding bonds, the governing body of such political division shall, by resolution, authorize the issuance of such bonds in an amount not exceeding the principal amount permitted by section one of this article, fix the date thereof, the rate or rates of interest which such bonds shall bear, payable semiannually, and require that the bonds shall bear, payable at the office of the State Treasurer and at such other place or places as the body issuing the same may designate. Such resolution shall also provide that such bonds shall mature serially in annual installments beginning not more than three years after the date thereof, and the last of such annual installments shall mature in not exceeding thirty-four years from the date of such bonds. The amount payable in each year on the refunding bonds, together with any unrefunded or unissued bonds of the prior issue, may be so fixed that, when the amount of interest is added to the principal amount to be paid during the respective years, the total amount payable in each year shall be as nearly equal as practicable; or such bonds may be made payable in annual installments as nearly equal in principal as may be practicable.All or a portion of the refunding bonds may be subject to redemption prior to the maturity thereof, at the option of the body issuing the same, at such times and prices and on such terms as shall be designated in the resolution required by this section. The body issuing the refunding bonds may not levy taxes in connection with the redemption of any refunding bonds in excess of the taxes that would have been levied for the payment of principal of and interest on such refunding bonds in such year.
WV Code § 13-2-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 13. Public Bonded Indebtedness|Article 2. Refunding Bonds|§13-2-3. Certain Provisions of Article One to Apply to Refunding Bonds

All the provisions of sections seventeen, eighteen, nineteen and twenty of article one of this chapter, relating to bonds issued for original indebtedness, shall apply to the same extent and with equal force and effect to refunding bonds issued under the provisions of this article.
WV Code § 13-2-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 13. Public Bonded Indebtedness|Article 2. Refunding Bonds|§13-2-4. Disposition of Bonds; Cancellation of Original Bonds

The governing body of the political body of the political subdivision issuing bonds under this article may sell the same or any part thereof and collect the proceeds, or such bonds may be delivered to the holder or holders of the bonds to be refunded in exchange therefor.It is the intention of this article to authorize political divisions to issue bonds for the purpose of refunding outstanding bonds without thereby contracting any additional indebtedness, and it shall be conditional upon the delivery of any refunding bonds that the bonds to be refunded be canceled and paid simultaneously with the issuance and delivery of such refunding bonds: Provided, That such refunding bonds shall be issued in an amount sufficient to effect the refunding and may include an amount sufficient to pay (1) the principal amount outstanding of the bonds to be refunded, (2) interest accrued or to accrue to the date of maturity or the date of redemption of the bonds to be refunded (which need not necessarily be on the first available redemption date), (3) any redemption premiums to be paid thereon, (4) any reasonable expenses incurred in connection with such refunding and (5) any other reasonable costs deemed appropriate by the state, including without limitation, the expenses of preparing and delivering the refunding bonds, legal fees, financial advisor fees, consultant fees, and other expenses incurred in connection with the issuance, sale and delivery of the refunding bonds.For all purposes of this section, bonds shall be considered to have been canceled and paid in advance of their due date or date of redemption if there shall have been deposited with the West Virginia Municipal Bond Commission either:(a) Moneys, sufficient to pay when and as due at maturity or prior redemption all amounts of principal, redemption premium, if any, and interest payable on such bonds; or(b) Direct obligations of the United State of America or the State of West Virginia, or obligations fully and irrevocably secured as to the payment of both principal and interest by such direct obligations, the payment on which when due will provide moneys, sufficient to pay when and as due at maturity or prior redemption all amounts of principal, redemption premium, if any, and interest payable on such bonds.All such amounts shall be set aside and held in trust and irrevocably dedicated solely to the payment of such bonds, except that amount in excess of the amounts required for the payment of the bonds so refunded may be applied to the payment of costs related to the issuance, carrying, insuring or servicing the refunding bonds, including costs of credit or market enhancement services, such as letters of credit, remarketing arrangements and similar services. Any amount deposited pursuant to this section may include amounts already held on deposit by the West Virginia Municipal Bond Commission for the payment of the bonds to be refunded.
WV Code § 13-2-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 13. Public Bonded Indebtedness|Article 2. Refunding Bonds|§13-2-5. Article Sufficient Authority for Issuing Refunding Bonds

This article shall, without reference to any other act of the Legislature, be full authority for the issuance, sale and exchange of bonds in this article authorized. No order, ordinance, resolution or proceeding in respect to the issuance of any bonds hereunder shall be necessary except such as are required by this article. No publication of any notice, order, ordinance or proceeding relating to the issuance of such bonds shall be necessary.
WV Code § 13-2-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 13. Public Bonded Indebtedness|Article 2. Refunding Bonds|§13-2-6. Issuance Without Election or Notice

The issuance and sale of exchange bonds in this article authorized may be had without an election or publication of any notice.
WV Code § 13-2-7 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 13. Public Bonded Indebtedness|Article 2. Refunding Bonds|§13-2-7. Invalidity of Part of Article Not to Affect Other Parts

If any clause, sentence, paragraph or part of this article shall for any reason be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder of the article, but shall be confined in its application to the clause, sentence, paragraph or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment has been rendered.
WV Code § 13-2-8 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 13. Public Bonded Indebtedness|Article 2. Refunding Bonds|§13-2-8. Bonds Exempt From Taxation

All bonds of the State of West Virginia or of any political subdivision thereof issued hereunder shall be exempt from all taxation by the state or by any political subdivision thereof.