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WV Code § 54-3-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 54. Eminent Domain|Article 3. Implementation of Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970 and the 1987 Amendments Thereto Known as Title Iv of the Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987|§54-3-2. Statement of Purposes

The purposes of this article are: (1) To require the establishment of a uniform policy for the fair and equitable treatment by state agencies of persons displaced from property in order that such persons shall not suffer disproportionate injuries as a result of programs designed for the benefit of the public as a whole; and (2) to encourage and expedite the acquisition of real property or any interest therein by agreements with persons so as to avoid litigation and relieve congestion in the courts, to assure consistent treatment of persons and promote public confidence in the land acquisition practices of any state agency.
WV Code § 54-3-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 54. Eminent Domain|Article 3. Implementation of Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970 and the 1987 Amendments Thereto Known as Title Iv of the Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987|§54-3-3. Implementation of Federal Act; Powers of State Agencies; Payments Under Act Not Considered Income or Resources for Certain Purposes

In order to accomplish the purposes set forth in section two of this article and to satisfy the requirements of adequately compensating displaced persons under such federal acts, each acquiring agency is hereby required and is hereby granted plenary power and authority to adopt rules and regulations, which shall have the force and effect of law, to implement the provisions of such federal acts and make applicable to such acquiring agency the policies and requirements of such federal acts which are pertinent to the mission and functions of such acquiring agency, including, without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing, the carrying out of all procedures and the making of all financial assistance payments, relocation assistance payments, replacement housing payments, loans and expense reimbursement payments required by such federal acts, subject only to any restrictions or limitations imposed by the Constitution of the State of West Virginia. The department of highways is hereby designated as the lead agency to develop, publish and issue such regulations to implement the provisions of this act and also to coordinate and provide policy and interpretations where necessary.No payment of any type required by such federal acts and received by any person under this article and such rules and regulations shall be considered as income or resources for the purpose of determining the eligibility or extent of eligibility of any person for assistance under any state law, or under any state or local tax law or ordinance, and no such payment shall be considered as income or resources of any recipient of public assistance and no such payment shall be deducted from the amount of aid to which the recipient would otherwise be entitled.
WV Code § 54-3-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 54. Eminent Domain|Article 3. Implementation of Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970 and the 1987 Amendments Thereto Known as Title Iv of the Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987|§54-3-4. Construction of Article; Assistance for Dislocation, etc., Occurring Prior to Effective Date

Neither the provisions of this article nor any rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to section three of this article are intended to abrogate or derogate the provisions of section twenty, article two-a, chapter seventeen of this code, and, to the extent not in conflict with said section twenty, the West Virginia department of highways shall be considered to be an acquiring agency within the meaning of this article. To the extent that such department may expend funds or make payments pursuant to the provisions of this article and such rules and regulations, such expenditures or payments are hereby declared to be a cost of highway construction and may be expended and paid from the state road fund.Neither the provisions of this article nor any rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to section three of this article shall be construed or interpreted so as to create any element of value or damage not in existence prior to the effective date of this article in any condemnation proceedings brought under the power of eminent domain exercised by any state agency except to the extent, if any, required by applicable law of the United States; but, notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever an acquiring agency in a condemnation proceeding pays a sum into court as representing the fair market value of property to be acquired, the amount of the award or verdict pertaining to such property shall not be less than such sum.Any acquiring agency may provide assistance as contemplated in such federal act even though the dislocation or acquisition occasioning the same occurred prior to the effective date of this article if federal funds are available for the payment of any such assistance.
WV Code § 54-3-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 54. Eminent Domain|Article 3. Implementation of Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970 and the 1987 Amendments Thereto Known as Title Iv of the Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987|§54-3-5. Severability

If any provision of this article or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held unconstitutional or invalid, such unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect, impair or invalidate other provisions or applications of the article, and to this end the provisions of this article are declared to be severable.
WV Code § 55-1-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 1. Statute of Frauds|§55-1-1. When Writing Required

No action shall be brought in any of the following cases:(a) To charge any person upon or by reason of a representation or assurance concerning the character, conduct, credit, ability, trade, or dealings of another, to the intent or purpose that such other may obtain thereby credit, money, or goods; or(b) To charge any person upon a promise made, after full age, to pay a debt contracted during infancy; or upon a ratification after full age, of a promise or simple contract made during infancy; or(c) To charge a personal representative upon a promise to answer any debt or damages out of his own estate; or(d) To charge any person upon a promise to answer for the debt, default, or misdoings of another; or(e) Upon any agreement made upon consideration of marriage; or(f) Upon any agreement that is not to be performed within a year; or(g) Upon any offer, agreement, representation, assurance, understanding, commitment, or contract of a bank, savings and loan association, or credit union, to extend credit or to make a loan in excess of $50,000, primarily for nonagricultural, business or commercial purposes, not including charge or credit card accounts, personal lines of credit, overdrafts, or any other consumer account: Provided, That this subsection shall not apply to any offer, agreement, representation, assurance, understanding, commitment or contract with a bank, savings and loan association or credit union in which a transaction has been completed as evidenced by a fund transfer;Unless the offer, promise, contract, agreement, representation, assurance, or ratification, or some memorandum or note thereof, be in writing and signed by the party to be charged thereby or his agent. But the consideration need not be set forth or expressed in the writing; and it may be proved (where a consideration is necessary) by other evidence.
WV Code § 55-2-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 2. Limitation of Actions and Suits|§55-2-1. Entry Upon or Recovery of Lands

No person shall make an entry on, or bring an action to recover, any land, but within ten years next after the time at which the right to make such entry or to bring such action shall have first accrued to himself or to some person through whom he claims.
WV Code § 55-2-1a (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 2. Limitation of Actions and Suits|§55-2-1a. Ownership or Possession of Surface of Lands After Severance of Minerals Not Adverse to Owner of Minerals

Whenever title to any minerals in land and the rights appurtenant thereto have been, or shall hereafter be, severed from title to the surface, the continuity of the possession of such minerals and the rights appurtenant thereto shall not be deemed to have been broken by such severance; and ownership or possession of the surface after severance shall not be adverse to the interests of the owner or owners of such minerals and appurtenant rights.
WV Code § 55-2-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 2. Limitation of Actions and Suits|§55-2-2. Claim Not to Preserve Right as to Lands

No continual or other claim upon or near any land shall preserve any right of making an entry or bringing an action.
WV Code § 55-2-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 2. Limitation of Actions and Suits|§55-2-3. Entry Upon or Recovery of Lands by Persons Under Disability

If at the time at which the right of any person to make an entry on, or bring an action to recover, any land shall have first accrued, such person was an infant or insane, then such person, or the person claiming through him may, notwithstanding such period of ten years shall have expired, make an entry on, or bring an action to recover, such land within five years next after the time at which the person to whom such right shall have first accrued as aforesaid shall have ceased to be under such disability as existed when the same so accrued, or shall have died, whichever shall first have happened.
WV Code § 55-2-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 2. Limitation of Actions and Suits|§55-2-4. Limitations Upon §55-2-3

The preceding section is subject to these provisos: That no such entry or action shall be made or brought by any person who, at the time at which his right to make or bring the same shall have first accrued, shall be under any such disability, or by any person claiming through him but within twenty years next after the time at which such right shall have first accrued, although the person under disability at such time may have remained under the same during the whole of such twenty years, or although the term of five years from the period at which he shall have ceased to be under any such disability, or have died, shall not have expired. And when any person shall be under any such disability at the time at which his right to make an entry or bring an action shall have first accrued, and shall depart this life without having ceased to be under any such disability, no time to make an entry or to bring an action, beyond the ten years next after the right of such person shall have first accrued, or the five years next after the period of his death, shall be allowed by reason of any disability of any other person.
WV Code § 55-2-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 2. Limitation of Actions and Suits|§55-2-6. Actions to Recover on Award or Contract Other Than Judgment or Recognizance

Every action to recover money, which is founded upon an award, or on any contract other than a judgment or recognizance, shall be brought within the following number of years next after the right to bring the same shall have accrued, that is to say: If the case be upon an indemnifying bond taken under any statute, or upon a bond of an executor, administrator or guardian, curator, committee, sheriff or deputy sheriff, clerk or deputy clerk, or any other fiduciary or public officer, within ten years; if it be upon any other contract in writing under seal, within ten years; if it be upon an award, or upon a contract in writing, signed by the party to be charged thereby, or by his agent, but not under seal, within ten years; and if it be upon any other contract, express or implied, within five years, unless it be an action by one party against his copartner for a settlement of the partnership accounts, or upon accounts concerning the trade or merchandise between merchant and merchant, their factors or servants, where the action of account would lie, in either of which cases the action may be brought until the expiration of five years from a cessation of the dealings in which they are interested together, but not after.
WV Code § 55-2-6a (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 2. Limitation of Actions and Suits|§55-2-6a. Deficiencies, Injuries or Wrongful Death Resulting From Any Improvements to or Survey of Real Property; Limitation of Actions and Suits

No action, whether in contract or in tort, for indemnity or otherwise, nor any action for contribution or indemnity to recover damages for any deficiency in the planning, design, surveying, observation or supervision of any construction or the actual construction of any improvement to real property, or the actual surveying of real property, or, to recover damages for any injury to real or personal property, or, for an injury to a person or for bodily injury or wrongful death arising out of the defective or unsafe condition of any improvement to real property, or the survey of real property, may be brought more than ten years after the performance or furnishing of the services or construction. However, the above period is tolled according to section twenty-one of this article. The period of limitation provided in this section does not commence until the improvement to the real property, or the survey of the real property in question has been occupied or accepted by the owner of the real property, whichever occurs first.
WV Code § 55-2-7 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 2. Limitation of Actions and Suits|§55-2-7. Actions on Bonds of Personal Representatives and Fiduciaries

The right of action upon the bond of an executor, administrator, guardian, curator or committee, or of a sheriff acting as such, shall be deemed to have first accrued as follows: Upon a bond of a guardian or curator of a ward, from the time of the ward's attaining the age of eighteen years, or from the termination of the guardian's or curator's office, whichever shall happen first; and upon the bond of any personal representative of a decedent or committee of an insane person, the right of action of a person obtaining execution against such representative or committee, or to whom payment or delivery of estate in the hands of such representative or committee shall be ordered by a court acting upon his account, shall be deemed to have first accrued from the return day of such execution, or from the time of the right to require payment or delivery upon such order, whichever shall happen first. And as to any suit against such fiduciary himself or his representative, which could have been maintained if he had given no bond, there shall be no other limitation than would exist if the preceding section were not passed. Where any such fiduciary, or any other fiduciary, has settled an account under the provisions of article four, chapter forty-four of this code, a suit to hold such fiduciary or his sureties liable for any balance stated in such account to be in his hands shall be brought within ten years after the account has been confirmed. The right to recover money paid under fraud or mistake shall be deemed to accrue, both at law and in equity, at the time such fraud or mistake is discovered, or by the exercise of due diligence ought to have been discovered.
WV Code § 55-2-8 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 2. Limitation of Actions and Suits|§55-2-8. Acknowledgment by New Promise

If any person against whom the right shall have so accrued on an award, or on any such contract, shall by writing signed by him or his agent promise payment of money on such award or contract, the person to whom the right shall have so accrued may maintain an action or suit for the moneys so promised within such number of years after such promise as it might originally have been maintained within upon the award or contract, and the plaintiff may either sue on such a promise, or on the original cause of action, and in the latter case, in answer to a plea under the sixth section, may, by way of replication, state such promise, and that such action was brought within such number of years thereafter; but no promise, except by writing as aforesaid, shall take any case out of the operation of the said sixth section, or deprive any party of the benefit thereof. An acknowledgment in writing as aforesaid, from which a promise of payment may be implied, shall be deemed to be such promise within the meaning of this section.
WV Code § 55-2-9 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 2. Limitation of Actions and Suits|§55-2-9. Effect of Acknowledgment by Personal Representative or Joint Contractor

No acknowledgment or promise by any personal representative of a decedent, or by one of two or more joint contractors, shall charge the estate of such decedent, or charge any other of such contractors, in any case in which, but for such acknowledgment or promise, the decedent's estate or another contractor could have been protected under the sixth section of this article.
WV Code § 55-2-10 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 2. Limitation of Actions and Suits|§55-2-10. Effect of Devise for Payment of Debts

No provision in the will of any testator devising his real estate, or any part thereof, subject to the payment of his debts, or charging the same therewith, shall prevent this article from operating against such debts, unless it plainly appear to be the testator's intent that it shall not so operate.
WV Code § 55-2-11 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 2. Limitation of Actions and Suits|§55-2-11. Action or Scire Facias on Recognizance

Every action or scire facias upon a recognizance shall, if it be not a recognizance of bail, be commenced within ten years next after the right to bring the same shall have first accrued; and, if it be a recognizance of bail, within three years after the right to bring the same shall have first accrued.
WV Code § 55-2-12 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 2. Limitation of Actions and Suits|§55-2-12. Personal Actions Not Otherwise Provided For

Every personal action for which no limitation is otherwise prescribed shall be brought: (a) Within two years next after the right to bring the same shall have accrued, if it be for damage to property; (b) within two years next after the right to bring the same shall have accrued if it be for damages for personal injuries; and (c) within one year next after the right to bring the same shall have accrued if it be for any other matter of such nature that, in case a party die, it could not have been brought at common law by or against his personal representative.
WV Code § 55-2-13 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 2. Limitation of Actions and Suits|§55-2-13. Foreign Judgments and Decrees

Every action or suit upon a judgment or decree rendered in any other state or country shall be barred, if by the laws of such state or country such action or suit would there be barred, and the judgment or decree be incapable of being otherwise enforced there. And whether so barred or not, no action against a person who shall have resided in this state during the ten years next preceding such action shall be brought upon any such judgment or decree rendered more than ten years before the commencement of such action.
WV Code § 55-2-14 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 2. Limitation of Actions and Suits|§55-2-14. Suit to Repeal Land Grant

A bill in equity to repeal, in whole or in part, any grant of land by this state or of the state of Virginia, shall be brought within ten years next after the date of such grant, and not after.
WV Code § 55-2-15 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 2. Limitation of Actions and Suits|§55-2-15. Special and General Savings as to Persons Under Disability

(a) A personal action for damages resulting from sexual assault or sexual abuse of a person who was an infant at the time of the act or acts alleged, shall be brought against the perpetrator of the sexual assault or sexual abuse, within 18 years after reaching the age of majority, or within four years after discovery of the sexual assault or sexual abuse, whichever is longer. A personal action for damages resulting from sexual assault or sexual abuse of a person who was an infant at the time of the act or acts alleged shall be brought against a person or entity which aided, abetted, or concealed the sexual assault or sexual abuse within 18 years after reaching the age of majority.(b) If any person to whom the right accrues to bring any personal action other than an action described in subsection (a) of this section, suit, or scire facias, or any bill to repeal a grant, shall be, at the time the same accrues, an infant or insane, the same may be brought within the like number of years after his or her becoming of full age or sane that is allowed to a person having no such impediment to bring the same after the right accrues, or after such acknowledgment as is mentioned in 55-2-8 of this code, except that it shall in no case be brought after 20 years from the time when the right accrues.(c) The amendments to this section enacted during the 2020 Regular Session of the Legislature are intended to extend the statute of limitations for all actions whether or not an earlier established period of limitation has expired.
WV Code § 55-2-16 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale|Article 2. Limitation of Actions and Suits|§55-2-16. Death Before Right to Sue

If a person die before the time at which any right mentioned in this article would have accrued to him if he had continued alive, and there be an interval of more than five years between the death of such person and the qualification of his personal representative, such personal representative shall, for the purposes of this article, be deemed to have qualified on the last day of such five years.