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WV Code § 8-32-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 32. Intergovernmental Relations - Contributions to or Involvement With Nonstock, Nonprofit Corporations or Health Institutions for Public Purposes|§8-32-3. Power to Secure Federal Grants for Certain Nonprofit Organizations

§8-32-3. Power to secure federal grants for certain nonprofit organizations.(a) Notwithstanding any statutory or charter provisions to the contrary, every municipality is, subject to the provisions and limitations set forth in subsections (b) and (c) of this section, hereby empowered and authorized to make application for, receive and accept grants from the federal government, or any agency thereof, for, on behalf of and for use by a nonstock, nonprofit corporation chartered under the laws of this state, or licensed to do business in this state, for charitable, patriotic or philanthropic or other public purposes and operating within the corporate limits of said municipality. The Legislature hereby finds that the support of such nonstock, nonprofit corporations is for the general welfare of the public and is a public purpose. This section is enacted in view of this finding and shall be liberally construed in the light thereof.(b) No federal funds received by a municipality under the authority of this section shall be disbursed by any such nonstock, nonprofit corporation unless and until the expenditure thereof has been approved by the governing body of such municipality, and such corporation shall upon demand at any time make a full and complete accounting of all such funds to such governing body.(c) Under no circumstances whatever shall any action taken by any municipality under the authority of this section give rise to or create any indebtedness on the part of such municipality, the governing body of such municipality, any member thereof or any municipal official or employee.
WV Code § 8-33-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 33. Intergovernmental Relations -- Building Commissions|§8-33-1. Municipal, County and Municipal-County Building Commissions Authorized; Reference to County Courts and County Commissions

§8-33-1. Municipal, county and municipal-county building commissions authorized; reference to county courts and county commissions.Any municipality or county, or one or more municipalities and any county, or any two or more municipalities within any county or counties, or any combination thereof, may create and establish a municipal building commission, a county building commission, or a municipal-county building commission, as the case may be (hereinafter in this article referred to as commission or commissions). Such commissions shall be formed by an ordinance or order, as appropriate, by each governmental body establishing the same. The governing body of a county is hereinafter in this article referred to either as a county court or county commission.
WV Code § 8-33-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 33. Intergovernmental Relations -- Building Commissions|§8-33-2. Commissions Are Public Corporations

Each commission, when created, shall be a public corporation and shall have perpetual existence.
WV Code § 8-33-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 33. Intergovernmental Relations -- Building Commissions|§8-33-3. Authority Vested in Board; Composition of Board; Appointment; Qualifications and Terms of Members; Vacancies; Reimbursement of Expenses

All property, powers and duties and the management and control of each commission shall be vested in a board consisting of representatives appointed by the governmental body or bodies creating and establishing such commission. In the case of a municipal building commission or a county building commission such board shall consist of not less than three nor more than five members and in the case of a municipal-county building commission each participating municipality shall appoint two members and each participating county shall appoint three members. All members of any board shall be appointed for terms of five years. Prior to making the initial appointments to the board, the governmental body or bodies shall make such initial appointments so that approximately one fifth of the total number of members of the board shall be appointed for a term of one year, approximately one fifth of the total number of members of the board shall be appointed for a term of two years, approximately one fifth of the total number of members of the board shall be appointed for a term of three years, approximately one fifth of the total number of members of the board shall be appointed for a term of four years, and approximately one fifth of the total number of members of the board shall be appointed for a term of five years. As the term of each such initial appointee expires the successor to fill the vacancy created by such expired term shall be appointed for a term of five years.The ordinance or order creating a building commission may provide for the manner of appointments to the membership of such commission by the governmental body creating such commission, which, in the case of a county, shall be the county commission or other tribunal in lieu thereof and, in the case of a municipality, shall be the governing body thereof.If any member of any board die, resign or for any reason cease to be a member of the board, the governmental body which such member represented shall appoint another individual to fill the unexpired portion of the term of such member. No more than two thirds of the total number of members of the board of each commission shall be from the same political party and no member of any such board shall hold any office (other than the office of notary public) or employment under the United States of America, the State of West Virginia, any county or political subdivision thereof, or any political party. All members of any board shall be residents of the municipality or county for which appointed. No member of any board shall receive any compensation for his services as such, but each member shall be reimbursed by the commission for any reasonable and necessary expenses actually incurred in the discharge of his duties as a member of the board.
WV Code § 8-33-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 33. Intergovernmental Relations -- Building Commissions|§8-33-4. Powers

§8-33-4. Powers.Each commission shall have plenary power and authority to:(a) Sue and be sued;(b) Contract and be contracted with;(c) Adopt, use and alter a common seal;(d) Make and adopt all necessary, appropriate and lawful bylaws and rules and regulations pertaining to its affairs;(e) Elect such officers, appoint such committees and agents and employ and fix the compensation of such employees and contractors as may be necessary for the conduct of the affairs and operations of the commission;(f)(1) Acquire, purchase, own and hold any property, real or personal, and (2) acquire, construct, equip, maintain and operate public buildings, structures, projects and appurtenant facilities, of any type or types for which the governmental body or bodies creating such commission are permitted by law to expend public funds (all hereinafter in this article referred to as facilities);(g) Apply for, receive and use grants-in-aid, donations and contributions from any source or sources, including, but not limited to, the United States of America, or any department or agency thereof, and accept and use bequests, devises, gifts and donations from any source whatsoever;(h) Sell, encumber or dispose of any property, real or personal;(i) Issue negotiable bonds, notes, debentures or other evidences of indebtedness and provide for the rights of the holders thereof, incur any proper indebtedness and issue any obligations and give any security therefor which it may deem necessary or advisable in connection with exercising powers as provided herein;(j) Raise funds by the issuance and sale of revenue bonds in the manner provided by the applicable provisions of sections seven, ten, twelve and sixteen, article sixteen of this chapter, without regard to the extent provided in section five of this article, to the limitations specified in said section twelve, article sixteen, it being hereby expressly provided that for the purpose of the issuance and sale of revenue bonds, each commission is a "governing body" as that term is used in said article sixteen only;(k) Subject to such reasonable limitations and conditions as the governmental body or all of the governmental bodies creating and establishing such building commission may prescribe by ordinance or by order, exercise the power of eminent domain in the manner provided in chapter fifty-four of this code for business corporations, for the purposes set forth in subdivision (f) of this section, which purposes are hereby declared public purposes for which private property may be taken or damaged;(l) Lease its property or any part thereof, for public purposes, to such persons and upon such terms as the commission deems proper, but when any municipality or county commission is a lessee under any such lease, such lease must contain a provision granting to such municipality or county commission the option to terminate such lease during any fiscal year covered thereby; and(m) Do all things reasonable and necessary to carry out the foregoing powers.
WV Code § 8-33-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 33. Intergovernmental Relations -- Building Commissions|§8-33-5. Indebtedness of Commission

TAXATION; FUNDS; PROPERTY.§8-33-5. Indebtedness of commission.No Constitutional or statutory limitation with respect to the nature or amount of or rate of interest on indebtedness which may be incurred by municipalities, counties or other public or governmental bodies shall apply to the indebtedness of a commission. No indebtedness of any nature of a commission shall constitute an indebtedness of any municipality or county creating and establishing such commission or a charge against any property of said municipalities or counties. No indebtedness or obligation incurred by any commission shall give any right against any member of the governing body of any municipality or any member of the county commission of any county or any member of the board of any commission. The rights of creditors of any commission shall be solely against the commission as a corporate body and shall be satisfied only out of property held by it in its corporate capacity.
WV Code § 8-33-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 33. Intergovernmental Relations -- Building Commissions|§8-33-6. Disposition of Surplus of Commission

If a commission should realize a surplus over and above the amount required for the improvement, maintenance and operation of its facilities and for meeting all required payments on its obligations, it shall set aside such reserve for future improvements, maintenance, operations 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 and discharged in full, the commission shall, at the end of each fiscal year, set aside the reserve for future improvements, maintenance, operations and contingencies, as aforesaid, and then pay the residue of such surplus, if any, to the governmental bodies creating and establishing such commission in direct proportion to their financial contribution.
WV Code § 8-33-7 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 33. Intergovernmental Relations -- Building Commissions|§8-33-7. Property, Bonds and Obligations of Commissions Exempt From Taxation

Each commission 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 municipality. The property of each commission shall be exempt from all municipal and county taxes. Bonds, notes, debentures and other evidences of indebtedness of each commission are declared to be issued for a public purpose and to be public instrumentalities, and, together with interest thereon, shall be exempt from taxation.
WV Code § 8-33-8 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 33. Intergovernmental Relations -- Building Commissions|§8-33-8. Contributions to Commissions; Funds and Accounts of Commissions; Reports; Audits

Contributions may be made to each commission from time to time by the governmental body or bodies creating and establishing it, and persons that shall desire to do so. All funds received by each commission shall be deposited in such banking institution or banking institutions as the board may direct and shall be withdrawn therefrom in such manner as the board may direct. Each commission shall keep strict account of all of its receipts and expenditures and shall each quarter make a quarterly report thereon to the municipalities, counties and persons which have made contributions to it, and such report shall contain 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, each commission shall make an annual report containing an itemized statement of its receipts and disbursements for the preceding fiscal year and publish the same 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 each county in which the commission's facilities are located. The books, records and accounts of each commission shall be subject to audit and examination by the State Tax Commissioner and by other proper public official or body in the manner provided by law.
WV Code § 8-33-9 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 33. Intergovernmental Relations -- Building Commissions|§8-33-9. Authority to Convey or Transfer Property to Commission

Any municipality or county is hereby empowered and authorized to convey or transfer to a commission which it has created and established either alone or with another governmental body, property of any kind, heretofore acquired by said municipality or county, to carry out the purposes of said commission. When property is conveyed or transferred as aforesaid, the conveying or transferring municipality or county court and the board shall agree in writing at the time the conveyance or transfer is made as to the fair market value of such property. The members of the board appointed by any municipality or county court conveying or transferring property shall not participate in connection with, otherwise than to provide a quorum, or vote on, any motion or resolution by which the board agrees to the fair market value of the property so conveyed or transferred.
WV Code § 8-33-10 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 33. Intergovernmental Relations -- Building Commissions|§8-33-10. Sale of Property by Commission

In the event a majority of the governmental bodies contributing funds or property to a commission shall so direct in writing and if all indebtedness of said commission has been paid in full, the commission shall sell all or any part of its properties and assets so directed and distribute the proceeds thereof among the governmental bodies creating and establishing it in direct proportion to their contributions of funds or property to the commission.
WV Code § 8-33-11 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 33. Intergovernmental Relations -- Building Commissions|§8-33-11. Workers' Compensation

§8-33-11. Workers' compensation.Each commission shall subscribe to the workers' compensation fund of this state and pay all necessary premiums thereto, to the end that all eligible employees of such commission shall be covered by workers' compensation.
WV Code § 8-33-12 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 33. Intergovernmental Relations -- Building Commissions|§8-33-12. Liberal Construction

The provisions of this article are hereby declared to be remedial and shall be liberally construed to effectuate 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 § 8-35-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 35. Dissolution of Municipalities|§8-35-1. Forfeiture of Charter or Certificate of Incorporation; Notice; Dissolution of Municipality

§8-35-1. Forfeiture of charter or certificate of incorporation; notice; dissolution of municipality.Any municipality heretofore incorporated or which shall hereafter be incorporated and which has no substantial indebtedness, and which shall fail for one year to exercise its corporate powers and privileges, or which has not twenty qualified voters, or in which there were not twenty legal votes cast at its last election, or the population of which shall be reduced below one hundred persons and so remain for six consecutive months, shall in either event have its charter or certificate of incorporation and all rights, powers and privileges so conferred upon such municipality forfeited.The county court of the county wherein any such municipality or the major portion of the territory thereof is located shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine all matters relating to the forfeiture of such charter or certificate of incorporation, upon the petition of one or more of its inhabitants, and to dissolve such municipal corporation. Ten days' notice of the filing of such petition with the clerk of the county court of such county, served upon the mayor and recorder or on the last mayor or recorder thereof, shall be sufficient notice upon which such county court shall so act, and upon the proper proof of the allegations of such petition, any such charter or certificate of incorporation shall be declared forfeited and the municipal corporation dissolved and all debts of such municipality shall be ordered paid and the forfeiture and dissolution shall not become effective until such debts have been paid. Upon such forfeiture and dissolution all interest of such municipality in corporate funds, if any, in excess of the amounts required to pay corporate debts shall be and the same is hereby transferred to and vested in the State of West Virginia to be controlled by the State Auditor. If the territory so incorporated, or a major part thereof, either in area or in population, shall, however, within one year next after such declaration of forfeiture and dissolution by the county court be reincorporated under this chapter, then the Auditor of the State of West Virginia shall convey unto such new municipality all of the rights of the State of West Virginia in and to the corporate property, moneys, claims, demands and taxes collected or uncollected, of the former municipal corporation so dissolved.
WV Code § 8-35-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 35. Dissolution of Municipalities|§8-35-2. Voluntary Dissolution of Class Iii City or Class Iv Town or Village

CLASS IV TOWN OR VILLAGE.§8-35-2. Voluntary dissolution of Class III city or Class IV town or village.Upon petition of twenty-five or more percent of the legal voters of any Class III city or Class IV town or village, the governing body thereof shall submit to the qualified voters of such municipal corporation at the next regular municipal election, or at a special municipal election called for that purpose, the question of continuing or dissolving such municipal corporation. It shall be the responsibility of the governing body to verify the total number of eligible petitioners and to determine whether the required percentage of petitioners has been obtained. The ballots, or ballot labels where voting machines are used, shall have written or printed on them the words:/ For Continuance of Municipal Corporation/ For Dissolution of Municipal CorporationIf a majority of the legal votes cast be for dissolution, then such municipal corporation shall by operation of law be dissolved upon termination of the term of the governing body then in office: Provided, That all debts or other obligations outstanding against such municipal corporation shall be settled in full. If a majority of the legal votes cast be for continuance, then such municipal corporation shall continue in existence unless and until dissolved at some later date under the provisions of section one of this article or this section two: Provided, however, That another election under the provisions of this section two shall not be held within two years of the last such election. Any election under the provisions of this section two shall be held, conducted and superintended and the result thereof ascertained, certified, returned and canvassed in the same manner and by the same persons as an election for municipal officers of such municipal corporation.
WV Code § 8-36-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 36. Constitutionality and Severability|§8-36-1. Constitutionality and Severability

(a) If any article, section, subsection, subdivision, provision, clause or phrase of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held unconstitutional or invalid, such unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect other articles, sections, subsections, subdivisions, provisions, clauses or phrases or applications of the chapter, and to this end each and every article, section, subsection, subdivision, provision, clause and phrase of this chapter is declared to be severable. The Legislature hereby declares that it would have enacted the remaining articles, sections, subsections, subdivisions, provisions, clauses and phrases of this chapter even if it had known that any articles, sections, subsections, subdivisions, provisions, clauses and phrases thereof would be declared to be unconstitutional or invalid, and that it would have enacted this chapter even if it had known that the application thereof to any person or circumstance would be held to be unconstitutional or invalid.(b) The provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall be fully applicable to all future amendments or additions to this chapter, with like effect as if the provisions of said subsection (a) were set forth in extenso in every such amendment or addition and were reenacted as a part thereof.
WV Code § 8-37-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 37. Municipal Financial Stabilization Fund Act|§8-37-1. Short Title

This act may be known and cited as the "Municipal Financial Stabilization Fund Act".
WV Code § 8-37-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations|Article 37. Municipal Financial Stabilization Fund Act|§8-37-2. Findings and Declarations

The Legislature finds and declares that:(1) Municipalities should maintain a prudent level of financial resources to try to protect against reducing service levels or raising taxes and fees because of temporary revenue shortfalls, unpredicted one-time expenditures or emergency situations; and(2) The creation, maintenance and use of a financial stabilization fund will provide municipalities with assistance to meet these challenges, as well as enable them to improve their financial management and practices.