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WV Code § 31G-1-13 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31G. Broadband Enhancement and Expansion Policies|Article 1. Broadband Enhancement Council|§31G-1-13. Protection of Proprietary Business Information

(a) Broadband deployment information provided to the council or its consultants and other agents, including, but not limited to, physical plant locations, subscriber levels, and market penetration data, constitutes proprietary business information and, along with any other information that constitutes trade secrets, shall be exempt from disclosure under the provisions of chapter twenty-nine-b of this code: Provided, That the information is identified as confidential information when submitted to the council.(b) Trade secrets or proprietary business information obtained by the council from broadband providers and other persons or entities shall be secured and safeguarded by the state. Such information or data shall not be disclosed to the public or to any firm, individual or agency other than officials or authorized employees of the state. Any person who makes any unauthorized disclosure of such confidential information or data is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, may be fined not more than $5,000 or confined in a correctional facility for not more than one year, or both.(c) The official charged with securing and safeguarding trade secrets and proprietary data for the council is the Secretary of Administration, who is authorized to establish and administer appropriate security measures. The council chair shall designate two additional persons to share the responsibility of securing trade secrets or proprietary information. No person will be allowed access to trade secrets or proprietary information without written approval of a minimum of two of the three authorized persons specified above.
WV Code § 31G-1-14 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31G. Broadband Enhancement and Expansion Policies|Article 1. Broadband Enhancement Council|§31G-1-14. Legislative Rule-Making Authority

In order to implement and carry out the intent of this article, the Secretary of the Department of Commerce, at the direction and recommendation of the council, may propose rules for legislative approval, pursuant to the provisions of article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code.
WV Code § 31G-1A-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31G. Broadband Enhancement and Expansion Policies|Article 1A. Office of Broadband|§31G-1A-1. Office of Broadband; Director of Office

There is hereby established an Office of Broadband, which shall be organized within the Department of Economic Development under the authority of the Secretary of Economic Development. The Office of Broadband shall be managed by a director, who shall report to the Secretary of Economic Development.
WV Code § 31G-1A-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31G. Broadband Enhancement and Expansion Policies|Article 1A. Office of Broadband|§31G-1A-4. Collection of Data

(a) In order to ascertain, categorize, analyze, map, and update the status of broadband in the state, as well as to enable the Office of Broadband to make informed policy and legislative recommendations, the Office of Broadband may establish a voluntary data collection program. The program may include voluntarily submitted data from internet service providers, including any home or region data rate meters utilized by the provider. The program may also utilize and collect voluntarily submitted data rate information submitted by any person reflecting the persons personal data rate at a particular IP address. This personal data rate may be based upon a web-based test or analysis program. (b) Any and all data collected by the Office of Broadband shall not be deemed public information and is not subject to public release or availability pursuant to 29B-1-1 et seq. of this code.(c) Any data collection program established by the Office of Broadband shall:(1) Make clear to those providers or persons submitting information that the data rate speed may become public, including specific reference to the persons physical address;(2) Make clear this is a voluntary data collection program and that submission of information shall be deemed consent to use and make public such data rate information; and (3) Not include any persons personal web history or search information, or otherwise publicly identify the persons name in connection with an IP address or physical address.(d) The Office of Broadband may establish guidelines and additional rules governing a data collection program through the legislative rulemaking pursuant to the provisions of 29A-3-1 et seq. of this code.
WV Code § 31G-1A-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31G. Broadband Enhancement and Expansion Policies|Article 1A. Office of Broadband|§31G-1A-5. Protection of Proprietary Business Information

(a) Broadband deployment information provided to the Office of Broadband or its consultants and other agents, including, but not limited to, physical plant locations, subscriber levels, and market penetration data, constitutes proprietary business information and, along with any other information that constitutes trade secrets, shall be exempt from disclosure under the provisions of 29B-1-1 et seq. of this code: Provided, That the information is identified as or would reasonably be contemplated to be confidential information when submitted to the Office of Broadband.(b) Trade secrets or proprietary business information obtained by the council or the Office of Broadband from broadband providers and other persons or entities shall be secured and safeguarded by the state. Such information or data shall not be disclosed to the public or to any firm, individual, or agency other than officials or authorized persons of the state. (c) The official charged with securing and safeguarding trade secrets and proprietary data for the Office of Broadband is the Secretary of Economic Development, who is authorized to establish and administer appropriate security measures.
WV Code § 31G-1A-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31G. Broadband Enhancement and Expansion Policies|Article 1A. Office of Broadband|§31G-1A-6. Legislative Rule-Making Authority

In order to implement and carry out the intent of this article, the Secretary of the Department of Economic Development may propose rules for legislative approval pursuant to the provisions of 29A-3-1 et seq. of this code.
WV Code § 31G-1A-7 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31G. Broadband Enhancement and Expansion Policies|Article 1A. Office of Broadband|§31G-1A-7. Broadband Development Fund

(a) The Broadband Development Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. The fund shall be administered by the Secretary of the Department of Economic Development and shall consist of all moneys made available for the purposes of this article from any source, including, but not limited to, all gifts, grants, bequests or transfers from any source, any moneys that may be appropriated to the fund by the Legislature, and all interest or other return earned from investment of the fund. Expenditures from the fund shall be for the purposes set forth in subsection (b) of this section and are not authorized from collections but are to be made only in accordance with appropriation by the Legislature and in accordance with the provisions of 12-3-1 et seq. of this code and upon the fulfillment of the provisions set forth in 11B-2-1 et seq. of this code: Provided, That for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022, expenditures are authorized from collections rather than pursuant to an explicit appropriation by the Legislature. Any balance, including accrued interest and other returns, remaining in the fund at the end of each fiscal year shall not revert to the General Revenue Fund but shall remain in the fund and be expended as provided by this section.(b) Monies of the Broadband Development Fund may only be expended for the following purposes:(1) Expenses for the administration of the Office of Broadband;(2) Line extension advancement and development projects, including expansion of existing fiber and cable networks;(3) Major broadband project strategies, including new networks or major expansions of existing networks;(4) GigReady incentive projects, including a state incentive for ISP and local governments and organizations to pool some of their federal American Rescue Plan Act allocations or other local funding;And(5) Wireless Internet Networks, including expansions or upgrades of existing fixed wireless networks. (c) Except funds expended for the administration of the Office of Broadband, monies of the Broadband Development Fund may only be expended for projects authorized by subsection (b) of this section that have been certified to the Joint Committee on Government and Finance by the Director of the Office of Broadband or the Secretary of the Department of Economic Development prior to making the expenditures.
WV Code § 31G-2-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31G. Broadband Enhancement and Expansion Policies|Article 2. Cooperative Associations|§31G-2-1. Definitions

As used in this article:(1) “Cooperative association” or “association” means any corporation organized under this article. Each association shall also comply with the requisite business corporation provisions of chapter thirty-one-d or thirty-one-f of this code, or the nonprofit corporation provisions of chapter thirty-one-e of this code.(2) “Internet services” means providing access to, and presence on, the internet and other services. Data may be transmitted using several technologies, including dial-up, DSL, cable modem, wireless, or dedicated high-speed interconnects. (3) “Member” means a member of an association without capital stock and a holder of common stock in an association organized with capital stock.(4) “Qualified person” means a person who is engaged in the use of internet services, either in an individual capacity, as a political subdivision of this state, or as a business.(5) “Qualified activity” means using internet services.
WV Code § 31G-2-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31G. Broadband Enhancement and Expansion Policies|Article 2. Cooperative Associations|§31G-2-2. Who May Organize

Notwithstanding any provision of this code to the contrary, twenty or more qualified persons engaged in the use of internet services may form a cooperative association, with or without capital stock, under this article.
WV Code § 31G-2-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31G. Broadband Enhancement and Expansion Policies|Article 2. Cooperative Associations|§31G-2-3. Legislative Findings and Purposes

(a) It is the finding of the Legislature that:(1) West Virginia’s cities, towns, and other concentrated population areas, areas of the state, mostly rural, remain unserved or underserved by broadband access; and (2) The lack of affordable, accessible broadband service in the underserved and unserved areas in this state necessitates consideration of alternative means and methods of providing internet services.(b) It is the purpose of this article that individuals and businesses be able to form cooperative associations for the purpose of obtaining internet services within their respective regions and communities.
WV Code § 31G-2-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31G. Broadband Enhancement and Expansion Policies|Article 2. Cooperative Associations|§31G-2-4. Powers

(a) A cooperative association shall have the following powers:(1) To engage in any qualified activity in connection with any internet service; or any activity in connection with the purchase, providing or use by its members of internet services; or in the financing, directly, through the association of any qualified activities. All transactions with nonmembers shall be on terms fixed by the association and nonmembers shall not otherwise participate in any benefits derived from such transactions;(2) To borrow money without limitation as to amount of corporate indebtedness or liability, and to make advance payments and advances to members; to execute, issue, draw, make, accept, endorse and guarantee, without limitation, promissory notes, bills of exchange, drafts, warrants, certificates, mortgages, and any other form of obligation or negotiable or transferable bills of any kind; to become the surety, guarantor, maker, and/or endorser for accommodation or otherwise of bills, notes, securities and other evidences of debt of any association or person, anything in any other statutes or law of this state to the contrary notwithstanding;(3) To act as the agent or representative of any member or members in any of the above-mentioned activities;(4) To purchase or otherwise acquire, and to hold, own and exercise all rights of ownership in, and to sell, transfer or pledge, or guarantee the payment of dividends or interest on, or the retirement or redemption of, shares of the capital stock or bonds of any corporation or association engaged in any related activity or in the providing and marketing of any of the products handled by the association;(5) To establish reserves and to invest the funds thereof in bonds or in such other property as may be provided in the bylaws;(6) To buy, hold and exercise all privileges of ownership over real or personal property as may be necessary or convenient for the conduct and operation of any of the business of the association, or incidental thereto;(7) To establish, secure, own and develop patents, trademarks and copyrights; and(8) To do each and every thing necessary, suitable, or proper for the accomplishment of any one of the purposes or the attainment of any one or more of the subjects herein enumerated, or conducive to or not contrary to the interest or benefit of the association; and to contract accordingly; and, in addition, to exercise and possess all powers, rights and privileges necessary or incidental to the purposes for which the association is organized or to the activities in which it is engaged, and any other rights, powers, and privileges granted by the laws of this state to ordinary corporations, except such as are inconsistent with the purposes of this article.
WV Code § 31G-2-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31G. Broadband Enhancement and Expansion Policies|Article 2. Cooperative Associations|§31G-2-5. Members

(a) Under the terms and conditions prescribed in the bylaws adopted by it, a cooperative association may admit as members, or issue common stock to, only qualified persons.(b) If a member of a nonstock association be other than a natural person, the member may be represented by an individual, associate, officer or manager or member thereof, duly authorized in writing.(c) One association organized hereunder may become a member or stockholder of any other association or associations organized under this article or similar laws of any state.
WV Code § 31G-2-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31G. Broadband Enhancement and Expansion Policies|Article 2. Cooperative Associations|§31G-2-6. Articles of Incorporation

Each association formed under this article shall prepare and file articles of incorporation, setting forth:(1) The name of the association, which shall include the words “cooperative,” “co-operative,” or “co-op,” and words or abbreviations designating a corporation;(2) The purposes for which it is formed;(3) The place where its principal business will be transacted;(4) The period, if any prescribed, for the duration of the corporation;(5) The number of incorporators which is not less than twenty, the number of directors which is not less than twenty and any number in excess of those minimums, or it may be set forth that the number of directors will be fixed by the bylaws;(6) If organized without capital stock, whether the property rights and interest of each member are equal or unequal; and if unequal, the general rules applicable to the classes of members whose property rights and interest are determined and fixed; and provision for the admission of new members who may be entitled to share in the property of the association with the old members, in accordance with the general rules. This provision of the articles of incorporation may not be altered, amended or repealed except by the written consent or vote of three fourths of the members;(7) If organized with capital stock and authorized to issue only one class of stock, the total number of shares of stock which the association has authority to issue, including: (A) The par value of each of the shares; or (B) a statement that all the shares are to be without par value;(8) If the association is authorized to issue more than one class of stock, the total number of shares of all classes of stock which the association may issue, including: (A) The number of shares of each class that have a par value and the par value of each share by class; (B) the number of shares that are to be without par value; and (C) a statement of the powers, preferences, rights, qualifications, limitations or restrictions that are permitted by section thirteen of this article in respect to a class of stock fixed by the articles of incorporation or by resolution of the board of directors;(9) The articles shall be signed and filed in accordance with the provisions of the business or nonprofit corporation laws of this state; and(10) The articles may also contain any provisions managing, defining, limiting or regulating the powers and affairs of the association, the directors, the stockholders or members of the association.
WV Code § 31G-2-7 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31G. Broadband Enhancement and Expansion Policies|Article 2. Cooperative Associations|§31G-2-7. Amendments to Articles of Incorporation

The articles of incorporation may be altered or amended at any regular meeting or any special meeting called for that purpose. An amendment must first be approved by two thirds of the directors and then adopted by a vote representing a majority of all the members of the association. Amendments to the articles of incorporation, when so adopted, shall be filed in accordance with the provisions of the general corporation laws of this state.
WV Code § 31G-2-8 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31G. Broadband Enhancement and Expansion Policies|Article 2. Cooperative Associations|§31G-2-8. Bylaws

Each association incorporated under this article, must, within thirty days after its incorporation, adopt for its government and management a code of bylaws, not inconsistent with the powers granted by this article. A majority vote of the members or stockholders, or their written assent, is necessary to adopt such bylaws. Each association, under its bylaws, may provide for any or all of the following matters:(1) The time, place and manner of calling and conducting its meetings;(2) The number of stockholders or members constituting a quorum;(3) The right of members or stockholders to vote by proxy or by mail or both; and the conditions, manner, form, and effect of such votes;(4) The number of directors constituting a quorum; and, if authority therefor is given in the articles of incorporation, the total number of directors;(5) The qualifications, compensation, duties and term of office of directors and officers; time of their election and the mode and manner of giving notice thereof;(6) Penalties for violation of the bylaws;(7) The amount of entrance, organization and membership fees, if any; the manner and method of collecting the same; and the purposes for which they may be used;(8) The amount which each member or stockholder shall be required to pay annually or from time to time, if at all, to carry on the business of the association; the charge, if any, to be paid by each member or stockholder for services rendered by the association to him or her and the time of payment and the manner of collection; and the marketing contract between the association and its members or stockholders which every member or stockholder may be required to sign; and(9) The number and qualifications of members or stockholders of the association and the conditions precedent to membership or ownership of common stock; the method, time and manner of permitting members to withdraw or the holders of common stock to transfer their stock; the manner of assignment and transfer of the interest of members and of the shares of common stock; the conditions upon which and time when membership of any member shall cease; the automatic suspension of the rights of a member when he or she ceases to be eligible to membership in the association; the mode, manner and effect of the expulsion of a member; the manner of determining the value of a member’s interest, and provision for its purchase by the association, at its option, upon the death or withdrawal of a member or stockholder, or upon the expulsion of a member or forfeiture of his or her membership, or, at the option of the association, the purchase at a price fixed by conclusive appraisal by the board of directors, or at the election of the board, such property interests may be sold at public auction to the association itself, or to any person eligible to membership in such association and the proceeds of such sale paid over to the personal representative of such deceased member, or to the member withdrawing or expelled, as the case may be.
WV Code § 31G-2-9 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31G. Broadband Enhancement and Expansion Policies|Article 2. Cooperative Associations|§31G-2-9. General and Special Meetings

In its bylaws, each association shall provide for one or more regular meetings annually. The board of directors shall have the right to call a special meeting at any time; and ten percent of the members or stockholders may file a petition stating the specific business to be brought before the association and demand a special meeting at any time. Such meeting must thereupon be called by the directors. Notice of all meetings, together with a statement of the purposes thereof, shall be mailed to each member at least ten days prior to the meeting: Provided, That the bylaws may require instead that such notice may be given as provided by this section, namely, as a Class I 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 in which the principal place of business of the association is located.