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WV Code § 30-42-20 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 30. Professions and Occupations|Article 42. West Virginia Contractor Licensing Act|§30-42-20. Nonapplicability of Local Ordinances; Exclusive License

After the effective date of this article no municipality, local government, or county may require any additional occupational license or other evidence of competence as a contractor from any person, firm, or corporation who or which holds a valid and current license issued pursuant to this article, as a condition precedent to permission for the performance of contractor work in such municipality, local government jurisdiction, or county.
WV Code § 31-2-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31. Corporations|Article 2. Railroad Companies|§31-2-1. Railroad Companies to Be Common Carriers; General Powers

Every railroad company heretofore incorporated and organized under the laws of this state, or under the laws of any other state, and authorized or licensed to do business in this state, and every such company which hereafter shall be incorporated and organized under the provisions of article one of this chapter, or authorized or licensed to transact business under said article, is a common carrier, and is authorized to acquire, construct, and own, maintain, operate and hold, railway lines, plants and systems, and any and all other suitable facilities for, and to engage in transporting persons and all commodities, objects and things which are subjects of commerce or of transportation by any and all means and methods, which are now used, or which may hereafter be developed, for such purpose.No such railroad company shall engage in any other business in this state, except as hereinafter authorized.
WV Code § 31-2-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31. Corporations|Article 2. Railroad Companies|§31-2-2. Right to Own and Dispose of Property

Every such railroad company shall have the right to purchase, take by voluntary gift or grant, acquire by condemnation, own, hold and use, all real estate and other property necessary for its corporate objects and purposes, and, when any property so acquired shall be no longer required for its use and purposes, to sell and convey the same.
WV Code § 31-2-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31. Corporations|Article 2. Railroad Companies|§31-2-3. Right to Produce Electricity for Own Uses

Any such railroad company may acquire, construct, own, hold and operate plants and properties for the generation, production and transportation of electricity in this state, for its corporate uses and purposes: Provided, That it shall not build or construct any hydroelectric plant or any dams or impounding basins for the use of such plant in any waters of the state, without having first obtained the consent of the Public Service Commission of the state so to do.
WV Code § 31-2-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31. Corporations|Article 2. Railroad Companies|§31-2-4. Right to Dispose of Surplus Electricity, Power, etc.

Any such railroad company, owning and operating any plant in this state for the production of electricity and power primarily for its own use, may sell and dispose of any surplus electricity or power not required for its use, under such regulations as are prescribed by law or by the Public Service Commission of the state by authority conferred upon it by any law: Provided, That in the case of a corporation engaged or heretofore engaged in the operation of street or interurban railways by electricity, or other motive power than steam, it shall have the right to furnish and sell to the public electricity, water and gas, either natural or artificial, or both, and to purchase, hold and use such property, rights, privileges and franchises as may be necessary in the generation, production, manufacture and sale to the public of such electricity and gas, and in the storage, filtration, distribution, delivery and sale to the public of water: Provided further, That no right, privilege or franchise granted under this section or now held shall be exercised without first obtaining from the Public Service Commission, if provided by law, the authority so to do, and, in the event of sales within a municipality until after having first procured a franchise therefor from the municipality in which it seeks to operate.
WV Code § 31-2-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31. Corporations|Article 2. Railroad Companies|§31-2-5. Buying, Selling or Transporting Coal and Coke

It shall be unlawful for any railroad corporation to engage, directly or indirectly, in the business of buying and selling coal or coke, or to promise, pledge or lend its credit, money or other property or thing of value to another, either natural or corporate, engaged in such business, but nothing herein shall prevent such corporation from purchasing such articles for its own consumption, or when it is the owner of any such commodities from selling and shipping the same: Provided, That in doing so, such corporation shall not discriminate in rates, distribution of cars or otherwise against other shippers of like commodities on its lines: Provided further, That when such company has the right to sell either of such commodities, and is unable from any cause to fill any bona fide contracts it may have made to supply such commodities, or either of them, it may purchase them to enable it to fill such contracts.Every railroad corporation, along whose line of railroad the industry of mining coal or manufacturing coke is carried on, shall without discrimination between or among shippers, and without unnecessary delay, make a reasonable provision for the transportation of all such coal and coke offered for transportation over its railroad, and no such railroad corporation shall discriminate in rates, distribution of cars or otherwise against or among shippers of coal or coke offered for shipment on its line or lines.The circuit and criminal courts of every county through or into which the railroad of any such railroad corporation violating any or either of the provisions of this section may pass, shall have concurrent jurisdiction of all the offenses under and violations of the provisions of this section.Any railroad corporation or officer or agent thereof who shall knowingly and wilfully violate any of the provisions of this section, shall, for each and every such offense, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than $500.
WV Code § 31-2-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31. Corporations|Article 2. Railroad Companies|§31-2-6. Charter to Show Principal Cities and Towns to Be Served by Railroad

Any charter issued under article one of this chapter incorporating any railroad company for the purpose of constructing a railroad in the State of West Virginia shall name the principal towns and cities which are proposed to be reached and served by such railroad.
WV Code § 31-2-7 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31. Corporations|Article 2. Railroad Companies|§31-2-7. Filing Map of Railroad

Every railroad corporation shall, within a reasonable time after its railroad is located in this state, cause to be made a map and profile thereof, with the names of the owners of the lands through which it runs, and of the noted places along the same stated thereon, and file the same in the office of the Secretary of State, and in the office of the clerk of the county court of each county in which any part of said road is located.
WV Code § 31-2-8 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31. Corporations|Article 2. Railroad Companies|§31-2-8. Warning of Approach of Train at Crossings; Crossing Railroad Tracks

A bell or steam whistle shall be placed on each locomotive engine, which shall be rung or whistled by the engineer or fireman, at a distance of at least sixty rods from the place where the railroad crosses any public street or highway, and be kept ringing or whistling for a time sufficient to give due notice of the approach of such train before such street or highway is reached, and any failure so to do is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not exceeding $100; and the corporation owning or operating the railroad shall be liable to any party injured for all damages sustained by reason of such neglect. When the tracks, other than switch or sidetracks, of two railroads cross each other, or in any way connect at a common grade, the crossing shall be made and kept in repair, and watchmen maintained thereat at the joint expense of the companies owning the tracks; all trains or engines passing over such tracks shall come to a full stop not nearer than two hundred feet nor farther than eight hundred feet from the crossing and shall not cross until signaled so to do by the watchman, nor until the way is clear; and when two passenger or freight trains approach the crossing at the same time, the train on the road first built shall have precedence if the tracks are both main tracks over which all passengers and freights on the roads are transported; but if only one track is such main track, and the other is a side or depot track, the train on the main track shall have precedence; and if one of the trains is a passenger train and the other a freight train, the former shall take precedence; and regular trains on time shall take precedence over trains of the same grade not on time, and engines with cars attached not on time shall take precedence over engines without cars not on time: Provided, That if such two railroads crossing each other, or in any way connecting at a common grade, by works or fixtures to be erected by them render it safe to pass over such crossing without stopping, and such works and fixtures first be approved by the Public Service Commission of West Virginia, and the plan thereof for such crossing designating the plan of crossing has been filed with said commission and approved by it, the provisions of this section relating to railroad crossings shall not apply.
WV Code § 31-2-9 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31. Corporations|Article 2. Railroad Companies|§31-2-9. Signboards or Warning Notices at Crossings

Every railroad company shall, at every place where a road or street crosses its railroad on the same level, erect and maintain suitable signboards or notices of warning apprising persons of the danger in crossing its tracks. All such signboards or notices shall be of the design and construction and shall be located in the manner required or approved by the state road commission. Any railroad company failing to comply with the provisions of this section shall be fined $5 for each week that any such failure continues.
WV Code § 31-2-10 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31. Corporations|Article 2. Railroad Companies|§31-2-10. Watering Troughs for Livestock

All railroads maintaining stations that are shipping points for livestock, where there are as many as one thousand head shipped in any one year, shall wherever practicable place within the stock pens owned or controlled by such railroad company suitable watering troughs which shall, at all times during the time stock is being shipped from the station, be supplied with pure drinking water such as stock will drink. It shall be considered practicable where there are waterworks from which water can be obtained (city or otherwise) by piping not to exceed one fourth of a mile.Any railroad company which refuses to comply with this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $100 for each offense. And each day that such pens are without water during the shipping season shall be considered a separate offense.
WV Code § 31-2-11 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31. Corporations|Article 2. Railroad Companies|§31-2-11. Consolidation of Railroad Properties

Any railroad company in this state may, with the assent and approval of the Public Service Commission, consolidate its properties and franchises with the property and franchises of another railroad company or other railroad companies, or obtain the possession and control of the lines and tracks of another railroad company or of other railroad companies, by purchase or lease, whether such railroads are or are not parallel or competing lines.
WV Code § 31-2-12 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31. Corporations|Article 2. Railroad Companies|§31-2-12. Passing Into Other States

The railroad or any extension or lateral or branch line of any railroad company may pass out of this state into any other state, with the assent of such state, and back again into this state as often as may be found necessary or convenient in locating such railroad, extension or lateral or branch line.
WV Code § 31-2-14 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31. Corporations|Article 2. Railroad Companies|§31-2-14. Foreclosure or Judicial Sale of Railroad Company

If a sale shall be made under a trust deed or mortgage executed by a railroad corporation on all its works and property, or if the sale of such property shall be made under the decree of a court, and there be a conveyance to any person or persons pursuant to any such sale, said sale and conveyance shall pass to the purchaser at such sale, not only the works and property of the corporation as they were at the time of making the trust deed or mortgage, but any works which the company may, after that time and before the sale, have constructed, and all other property of which it may be possessed at the time of the sale, other than debts due to it. Upon such conveyance to the purchaser such company shall ipso facto be dissolved, and such purchaser shall forthwith be a corporation by any name which may be set forth in such conveyance, or in any writing signed by him or them, and recorded in the office of the clerk of the county court of any county wherein the property so sold, or any part thereof, is situated.
WV Code § 31-2-15 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31. Corporations|Article 2. Railroad Companies|§31-2-15. Same -- Rights and Duties of Purchaser

The corporation created by or in consequence of such sale and conveyance shall succeed to all such franchises, rights and privileges, but not immunity from taxation, and perform all such duties as would have been had, or should have been performed by the first company, but for such sale and conveyance; save only, that the corporation so created shall not be entitled to debts due to the first company, and shall not be liable for any debts of, or claims against the first company, which may not be expressly assumed in the contract of purchase; and that the whole profits of the business done by such corporation shall belong to such purchaser and his assigns. His interest in the corporation shall be personal estate, and he or his assigns may create so many shares of stock therein as he or they may think proper, not exceeding together the amount of stock in the first company at the time of the sale, and assign the same in a book kept for that purpose. Such shares shall thereupon be on the footing of shares in corporations generally, except only that the first meeting of the stockholders shall be held on such day and at such place as shall be fixed by such purchaser, of which notice shall 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 each county in the state wherein such corporation may do business.
WV Code § 31-2A-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31. Corporations|Article 2A. Railroad Crossing|§31-2A-1. Definitions

As used in this article:(a) "Carrier,""railroad" or "railroad company" means a common carrier by railroad.(b) "Train" or "trains" mean engines, cars and any type of railroad equipment or rolling stock, or any part thereof, capable of blocking any crossing of a railroad track or tracks and any public street, road or highway.
WV Code § 31-2A-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31. Corporations|Article 2A. Railroad Crossing|§31-2A-2. Blocking of Crossing Prohibited; Time Limit

(a) It is unlawful for any railroad company, except in an emergency, to order, allow or permit the operation of or to operate or to so operate its system so that a train blocks the passage of vehicular traffic over the railroad crossing of any public street, road or highway of this state for a period longer than ten minutes. This section does not apply to an obstruction of any such street, road or highway caused by a continuously moving train or caused by circumstances wholly beyond the control of the railroad, but does apply to all other obstructions as aforesaid, including, but not limited to, those caused by a stopped train or a train engaged in switching, loading or unloading operations: Provided, That if any such train is within the jurisdictional limits of any municipality which now has or hereafter shall have in force and effect an ordinance limiting the time a railroad crossing may be blocked by a train, such ordinance shall govern, and the provisions of this article shall not be applicable.(b) Upon receiving notification from a law-enforcement officer, member of a fire department, operator of an emergency medical vehicle, or a member of an emergency services provider that emergency circumstances require the immediate clearing of a public highway railroad grade crossing, the members of the train crew of the train, railroad car or equipment, or engine blocking such crossing shall immediately notify the appropriate railroad dispatcher of the pending emergency situation. Upon receipt of notice of such emergency circumstances by the train crew or dispatcher, the railroad shall immediately clear the crossing, consistent with the safe operation of the train.
WV Code § 31-2A-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31. Corporations|Article 2A. Railroad Crossing|§31-2A-3. Responsibility of Railroad Company

The railroad company shall be solely responsible for the acts of its agents and employees in violating any provision of this article or any provision of any ordinance of any municipality or any provision of any order of a county or other public authority regulating the period of time any such street, road or highway may be so blocked by a train.
WV Code § 31-2A-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31. Corporations|Article 2A. Railroad Crossing|§31-2A-4. Presumption

There shall be a rebuttable presumption that a train is operated by the carrier whose marks, numbers, signs and symbols of identification appear on the engine or caboose of such train.
WV Code § 31-2A-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31. Corporations|Article 2A. Railroad Crossing|§31-2A-5. Service of Process

Process issuing for a violation of this article may be served upon the engineer or conductor of the train causing a violation of the provisions of this article or any other officer, agent or attorney-in-fact of the railroad company authorized by law to receive service of summons or other process issuing against said railroad company.
WV Code § 31-2A-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31. Corporations|Article 2A. Railroad Crossing|§31-2A-6. Fines and Penalties

(a) Any railroad company, carrier or railroad violating the provisions of subsection (a), section two of this article is guilty of misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than $150; upon a second conviction occurring at the same crossing within one year thereafter, shall be fined not less than $250; and upon a third or subsequent conviction occurring at the same crossing within one year after the first conviction, shall be fined not less than $350.(b) Any railroad company, carrier or railroad violating the provisions of subsection (b), section two of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than $1,000; upon a second conviction occurring at the same crossing within one year thereafter, shall be fined not less than $2,500; and upon a third or subsequent conviction occurring at the same crossing within one year after the first conviction, shall be fined not less than $5,000.
WV Code § 31-2A-7 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31. Corporations|Article 2A. Railroad Crossing|§31-2A-7. Severability

If any provision of this article or the application thereof to any person or circumstance be held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the article, and to this end the provisions of this article are hereby declared to be severable.
WV Code § 31-2B-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31. Corporations|Article 2B. Illumination Equipment for Railroad Cabooses|§31-2B-1. Legislative Findings and Purposes

The Legislature hereby finds that for the purpose of protecting the lives of workmen, other persons and railroad equipment there shall be maintained at the rear of cabooses illumination when they are being pushed during hours of darkness.
WV Code § 31-2B-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31. Corporations|Article 2B. Illumination Equipment for Railroad Cabooses|§31-2B-2. Illumination Requirements; Time Period for Implementation; Application of Requirements

(a) From the effective date of this article, there shall be maintained at the rear of all cabooses, while cabooses are being pushed during the hours of darkness, either a handheld or installed backup light which shall have sufficient candlepower to illuminate the track for a distance of at least two hundred fifty feet under clear atmospheric conditions on all local and mine runs.(b) Every railroad company operating within this state shall be required to comply with the provisions of this article, but shall have one year from the effective date hereof to comply with such requirements.(c) The provisions of this article shall apply to all local and mine run cabooses.
WV Code § 31-2B-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31. Corporations|Article 2B. Illumination Equipment for Railroad Cabooses|§31-2B-3. Repair and Maintenance; Exemption

Any railroad company operating a caboose to which the illumination requirements of section two of this article apply shall not be in violation of said article if the failure of lighting equipment required under the provisions of this article is corrected at the first point maintenance supplies are available, or in the case of repairs, the first point at which materials and repair facilities are available and repairs can reasonably be made.
WV Code § 31-2B-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31. Corporations|Article 2B. Illumination Equipment for Railroad Cabooses|§31-2B-4. Runs Originating From Out of State

Runs originating from without the State of West Virginia shall be exempt from the requirements of this article.
WV Code § 31-2B-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31. Corporations|Article 2B. Illumination Equipment for Railroad Cabooses|§31-2B-5. Enforcement Penalty

The provisions of this article shall be enforced by the Public Service Commission. If any railroad company violates the provisions of this article, it shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $500 for each violation.
WV Code § 31-2B-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31. Corporations|Article 2B. Illumination Equipment for Railroad Cabooses|§31-2B-6. No Individual Responsibility

With the exception of intentional misconduct or negligence on the part of the employee, this article shall not be construed to impose any individual responsibility upon any railroad employee for damage to his employer due to breakage or loss of use while the employee is engaged in handling the lights as required by this article.This article shall be construed as imposing upon the employer responsibility for securing and maintaining the lights required by this article.
WV Code § 31-3-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31. Corporations|Article 3. Boom Companies|§31-3-1. Consent of State to Construction of Booms

[Repealed.]
WV Code § 31-3-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31. Corporations|Article 3. Boom Companies|§31-3-2. Powers of Boom Company; Boomage; Lien; Sale for Tolls; Free Passage of Logs

[Repealed.]
WV Code § 31-3-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 31. Corporations|Article 3. Boom Companies|§31-3-3. Injuries to Property of Boom Company

[Repealed.]