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WV Code § 16-13A-24 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 13A. Public Service Districts|§16-13A-24. Acceptance of Loans, Grants or Temporary Advances

Any public service district created pursuant to the provisions of this article is authorized and empowered to accept loans or grants and procure loans or temporary advances evidenced by notes or other negotiable instruments issued in the manner, and subject to the privileges and limitations, set forth with respect to bonds authorized to be issued under the provisions of this article, for the purpose of paying part or all of the cost of construction or acquisition of water systems, sewage systems, stormwater systems or stormwater management systems or gas facilities, or all of these, and the other purposes herein authorized, from any authorized agency or from the United States of America or any federal or public agency or department of the United States or any private agency, corporation or individual, which loans or temporary advances, including the interest thereon, may be repaid out of the proceeds of the bonds authorized to be issued under the provisions of this article, the revenues of the said water system, sewage system, stormwater system or associated stormwater management system or gas facilities, or grants to the public service district from any authorized agency or from the United States of America or any federal or public agency or department of the United States or from any private agency, corporation or individual or from any combination of such sources of payment, and to enter into the necessary contracts and agreements to carry out the purposes hereof with any authorized agency or the United States of America or any federal or public agency or department of the United States, or with any private agency, corporation or individual. Any other provisions of this article to the contrary notwithstanding, interest on any such loans or temporary advances may be paid from the proceeds thereof until the maturity of such notes or other negotiable instrument.
WV Code § 16-13A-25 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 13A. Public Service Districts|§16-13A-25. Borrowing and Bond Issuance; Procedure

A public service district has plenary power to borrow money, enter into contracts for the provision of engineering, design or feasibility studies, issue or contract to issue revenue bonds or exercise any of the powers conferred by the provisions of section thirteen, twenty or twenty-four of this article. Upon written request of the public service board contemplating such transaction or project, the Public Service Commission shall provide technical support to the public service board, including, but not limited to, engineering, design and financial analysis of the proposed transaction or project.
WV Code § 16-13B-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 13B. Community Improvement Act|§16-13B-1. Short Title

This article shall be known and may be cited as the "West Virginia Community Improvement Act."
WV Code § 16-13B-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 13B. Community Improvement Act|§16-13B-3. Power and Authority of Counties and Municipalities Relating to Flood Relief, Wastewater and Water Projects

(a) Every county and municipality is hereby empowered and authorized, in addition to any other rights, powers and authority conferred upon it elsewhere in this code, to:(1) Create, modify and expand assessment districts in the manner hereinafter set forth in such county or municipality, and to develop, construct, extend or improve, or assist in the development, construction, extension or improvement of, a project located in such county or municipality;(2) Acquire, by purchase, lease, right of eminent domain, gift or otherwise, such lands, public ways and other interests in real estate, or any other property, as may be necessary or incident to the completion of a project, and to convey such real estate and other property to an assessment district;(3) Appoint the members of the community improvement board for each assessment district created by it hereunder;(4) Enter into agreements with any person or governmental agency necessary or incident to the development, planning, construction or improvement of a project, or for the operation, maintenance or disposition of a project or for any other services required by a project;(5) Expend funds to acquire, or construct part of a project on, property located outside of an assessment district but within the boundaries of such county or municipality, as the case may be, and for any work undertaken thereon, as may be necessary or incident to the completion of a project;(6) Enter into agreements with one or more counties or municipalities to plan, develop, construct or improve a project jointly;(7) Merge two or more assessment districts into one assessment district: Provided, That all such districts are located within the boundaries of the county or municipality, as the case may be; and(8) Take any and all other actions consistent with the purpose of this article and not in violation of the Constitution of this state, as may be necessary or incident to the construction and completion of a project.(b) Unless agreed to by a municipality, the power and authority hereby conferred on a county shall not extend into territory within the boundaries of any municipality: Provided, That notwithstanding any provision in this code to the contrary, the power and authority hereby conferred on counties may extend within the territory of a public service district created under section two, article thirteen-a of this chapter.
WV Code § 16-13B-7 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 13B. Community Improvement Act|§16-13B-7. Receipt of Petition of Property Owners; Ordinance or Order Authorizing Creation of Assessment District and Construction of Project

Upon receipt of the petition required under section six of this article and, solely in the case of a flood relief project as defined in subparagraph (1) or (2), subsection (g), section two of this article, not earlier than the expiration of the election period required under section six of this article, the governing body, by ordinance or order, may create a community improvement assessment district and shall set forth in such ordinance or order, as the case may be, the boundaries of the assessment district and authorize the completion of the project therein in accordance with the study described in section four of this article.
WV Code § 16-13B-13 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 13B. Community Improvement Act|§16-13B-13. Assessment Against Property of Public, Charitable, Eleemosynary, Educational or Religious Institutions; Duty of Those in Charge to Cause Assessments to Be Paid

When any of the lots or parcels of land within an assessment district abutting the portion of the public way improved by a wastewater or water project consist of property owned or controlled by this state, any municipality, county, Board of Education or other public body, or consist of property owned by, or used for, a church, or a religious, charitable, educational or eleemosynary institution, for purposes not subject to taxation, such property shall nevertheless be assessed with its proper proportion of the cost of said improvement, and it shall be the duty of those persons having charge of the fiscal affairs of such owner or the management of any such property or institution to make proper arrangements for the payment of, and cause to be paid, such assessments as and when due and payable.
WV Code § 16-13B-14 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 13B. Community Improvement Act|§16-13B-14. Method of Paying for Cost of Project; How Assessments May Be Evidenced

The board shall determine and provide in the resolution laying the assessments, adopted in accordance with section ten of this article, the method of financing the cost of a project, for the cost of which assessments are levied as in this article provided, and such method may include the receipt of gifts, grants from any governmental agency or appropriations from the county or municipality in which the assessment district is located, or borrowing funds from any person or governmental agency, or any combination thereof: Provided, That any funds borrowed by an assessment district, including any interest accruing thereon, shall be repaid solely from the proceeds of the assessment certificates issued pursuant to section fifteen of this article and from the assessments evidenced thereby.
WV Code § 16-13B-16 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 13B. Community Improvement Act|§16-13B-16. No Liability of State, County, Municipality and Assessment District

Neither the state nor any county or municipality shall be liable on notes or other evidences of indebtedness of an assessment district or for the payment of any assessment fees evidenced by any assessment certificate, and such notes or other evidences of indebtedness and assessment certificates shall not be a debt of the state or any county or municipality, and such notes or other evidences of indebtedness and assessment certificates shall contain on the face thereof a statement to such effect. No assessment district shall be liable for the payment of any assessment fees evidenced by any assessment certificates issued pursuant to this article and assessment certificates shall contain on the face thereof a statement to such effect.
WV Code § 16-13B-17 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 13B. Community Improvement Act|§16-13B-17. Payment of Assessment Fees; Releases

 (a) Payments of assessment fees or any installment thereof shall be made to the sheriff of the county in which the assessment district is located, who shall hold and disburse all such fees as agent for the assessment district in accordance with this section. The sheriff shall promptly deposit all assessment fees upon receipt thereof in a segregated account established by the sheriff for such purpose and shall maintain a record of the assessment fees so received. Within thirty days of receipt of assessment fees from any person or governmental agency, the sheriff shall disburse the assessment fees to the holder of the assessment certificate pursuant to which such assessment fees were paid, and within sixty days after the receipt of all assessment fees due for the calendar year in question, but in no event later than October 1, of such year, prepare and deliver to the board of each assessment district located in the county, a statement setting forth the aggregate amount of assessment fees received for such district and the name of any property owner who failed to pay the assessment fees due and payable for the period in question.(b) On or before April 30 of each year in which assessments are owed with respect to any lot or parcel of property within an assessment district located in a county, the sheriff of the county shall send a notice to the person owning such lot or parcel setting forth the assessment fee due for such period and that such assessment fee shall be due and payable on or before June 1 of such year. In preparing and mailing such notices, the sheriff may rely on the information contained in the records maintained by the registrar of each assessment district, as provided in section fifteen of this article.(c) If payment in full is made to the holder of a certificate, the holder shall deliver the certificate to the assessment district marked "paid" to evidence the payments made of principal and interest, and the assessment district shall thereupon deliver the certificate to the payor. On presentation to the board for cancellation of all certificates for the full assessment made against a specific lot or parcel of property assessed, the chairman of the board shall on request execute and deliver a release of the lien of such assessment.
WV Code § 16-13B-19 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 13B. Community Improvement Act|§16-13B-19. Reassessment for Void, Irregular or Omitted Assessments

In the case of the construction of any permanent improvements where an assessment has heretofore been laid or may hereafter be laid for the cost thereof, which said assessment is or shall be void or voidable by reason of errors, irregularities or defects in the proceedings under which such improvements were made, or in case such assessment shall have been made against the wrong person or property, or shall have been omitted to be made in a case where the same was proper, it shall be the duty of the board within five years after the completion of such improvements, or after any court shall have declared such assessment invalid, to cause notice to be given to any person or persons against whom the cost of said improvements might properly be or have been assessed, of its intention to lay such assessment and fixing a date, time and place at which the owner or owners may appeal and show case against the same. Said notice shall be served in the manner provided in this article for the giving of notices in assessment proceedings, or in any other manner provided by law. At the time and place specified in the notice aforesaid or at any time thereafter, the board shall proceed to lay and levy an assessment or assessments for the cost of such improvements as would have been lawful under proper proceedings at the time said improvements were completed, unless the owner or owners so notified shall show good cause against the same. The reassessment or reassessments so laid shall be a lien upon the property liable therefor in the manner hereinabove provided from the date of the original assessment, with interest therefrom, and proper assessment certificate may be issued, recordation had, and the payment thereof and the lien thereof may be enforced in the same manner and upon the same terms as would have been proper at the time of the completion of the said improvements had the assessments therefor been then properly laid and levied.
WV Code § 16-13B-20 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 13B. Community Improvement Act|§16-13B-20. How Additional Territory May Be Added to Assessment District

(a) A governing body may, with respect to any assessment district created by it, modify, expand or extend the boundaries of the assessment district to develop, construct, improve or extend any project, or to enable persons residing or engaged in business on property located outside the assessment district to obtain the services provided by a wastewater or water facility, (1) by satisfying the same requirements provided in this article for the creation of the assessment district, or (2) upon the unanimous written agreement of persons owning all of the property to be added to the assessment district that such property be added to the district and assessed in accordance with subsection (b) of this section: Provided, That no property may be added to an assessment district for connection to a wastewater or water project unless it abuts the assessment district.(b) Any property added to an assessment district shall be assessed for and bear a proportionate share of the cost of the project then remaining unpaid, consistent with the concepts and principles set forth in sections eleven and twelve of this article and the assessment so laid shall be a lien upon the property in the same manner hereinabove provided from the date such assessment is laid. Contemporaneously with the resolution laying the assessment against such property, all other property located in the assessment district shall be reassessed to reflect the addition of such property to the assessment district. In all such cases, the assessment district shall be the holder of the assessment certificates issued to evidence the assessments laid upon the added property, and all assessment fees received by the sheriff from such assessment certificates shall be applied, pro rata, to reduce the final installment of principal and interest due from the owners of all other property located in the assessment district as it existed prior to the addition of property to the district.(c) If any property is connected to a wastewater or water project after the cost of the project has been paid in full and the transfer of the project to a utility or governmental agency pursuant to section twenty-one of this article, the owner of such property shall pay to the utility or governmental agency the same rates and charges paid by other customers of the utility or governmental agency for the services provided by the wastewater or water facility operated and maintained by it.
WV Code § 16-13B-21 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 13B. Community Improvement Act|§16-13B-21. Operation and Maintenance of Wastewater and Water Projects; Rates and Charges Therefor

(a) Prior to the construction of a wastewater or water project, the assessment district in which the project shall be located shall enter into one or more agreements with a utility or governmental agency operating a wastewater or water facility within the service area covered by the assessment district for the operation and maintenance of the project and for the provision of wastewater or water services, as the case may be, and such utility or governmental agency shall thereupon be authorized and empowered to charge and collect from each person connected to the project such rates and charges customarily paid by customers of such utility or governmental agency for similar wastewater or water services. All such agreements shall have terms of duration equal to or greater than the period necessary for the cost of the project to be paid in full, and may otherwise contain such terms and conditions as may be mutually agreed to by the parties, and shall be presented as part of the application to the Public Service Commission required by section ten (c) hereof.(b) Immediately upon the final payment of all assessment fees due under all assessment certificates issued in connection with a wastewater or water project constructed within an assessment district, the assessment district shall transfer and convey all of its right, title and interest in and to such project to the utility or governmental agency providing wastewater or water services, as the case may be.
WV Code § 16-13B-22 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 13B. Community Improvement Act|§16-13B-22. Liberal Construction

This article being necessary for the public health, safety and welfare, it shall be liberally construed to effectuate the purpose hereof.
WV Code § 16-13C-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 13C. Drinking Water Treatment Revolving Fund Act|§16-13C-1. Definitions

Unless the context in which used clearly requires a different meaning, as used in this article:(1) "Authority" means the water development authority provided for in section four, article one, chapter twenty-two-c of this code.(2) "Capacity development" means the technical, managerial and financial capability of a public water system.(3) "Cost" means the cost of all labor, materials, machinery, equipment, lands, property, rights and easements, plans and specifications and all other expenses necessary or incident to the acquisition, construction, improvement, expansion, extension, repair or rehabilitation of all or part of a project.(4) "Disadvantaged community" means the service area of a public water system that meets affordability criteria established after public review and comment by the state.(5) "Federal safe drinking water act" means the federal statute commonly known as the "Safe Drinking Water Act", 42 U.S.C. 300f et seq., as enacted, amended, and as may be subsequently amended.(6) "Fund" means the West Virginia drinking water treatment revolving fund created in this article.(7) "Instrumentality" means the division of health which has the primary responsibility for administering the fund and this article pursuant to requirements of the federal safe drinking water act.(8) "Local entity" means any municipality, public utility, or person, including any individual, firm, partnership, association, not-for-profit corporation or other corporation organized and existing under the laws of the state which may construct and operate an eligible project.(9) "Public water system" means that term as defined in section nine-a, article one, chapter sixteen of the code.(10) "Project" means a project for improving a drinking water system for the purpose of achieving or maintaining compliance with applicable state and federal drinking water regulations.(11) "Set-aside accounts" means those accounts that shall be set up for activities required by the federal Safe Drinking Water Act and the moneys for these accounts may be taken from the federal capitalization grant for these nonproject activities before the capitalization grant is deposited into the fund.(12) "Small system" means a public water system serving ten thousand or fewer persons.
WV Code § 16-13C-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 13C. Drinking Water Treatment Revolving Fund Act|§16-13C-2. Designation of Division of Health as State Instrumentality; Rules; Small Systems; Disadvantaged Communities

(a) The division of health shall act as the instrumentality that is hereby empowered to enter into capitalization agreements with the United States Environmental Protection Agency, to accept capitalization grant awards made under the federal safe drinking water act, and to direct the administration and management of the drinking water treatment revolving fund created in this article in accordance with the requirements of federal law.(b) The division of health shall propose rules for legislative approval in accordance with provisions of article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of the code for the purpose of effecting the administration of the provisions of this article. The rules shall include, but are not limited to, establishing requirements for: (1) Capacity development; (2) environmental review; (3) disadvantaged community designation; (4) receipt and disbursement of fund moneys; and (5) establishment of a drinking water treatment revolving fund program to direct the financial management of the fund to water systems and establish the interest rates and repayment terms of the loans.(c) Two percent of the annual federal capitalization grants made to this state shall be utilized to provide technical assistance services for small systems to assist those systems in maintaining compliance with the federal safe drinking water act. The division of health shall enter into contracts to provide technical assistance services for small systems with such nonprofit organizations that: (1) Have a membership that represent at least twenty-five percent of the small systems of this state; and (2) have at least five years experience in providing on-site technical assistance to small systems.(d) The division of health shall, in accordance with the provisions of the federal safe drinking water act, establish a program for loan subsidies to disadvantaged communities. Thirty percent of the annual federal capitalization grants made to this state shall be dedicated to the funding of projects for disadvantaged communities.
WV Code § 16-13C-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 16. Public Health|Article 13C. Drinking Water Treatment Revolving Fund Act|§16-13C-4. Management of Funds

The authority shall manage the funds received pursuant to the provisions of this article for accounting purposes. The authority shall cause an audit of its books and accounts to be made at least once each fiscal year and the cost thereof may be defrayed as administrative expense under provisions of this article. The audit shall be conducted by a certified public accountant and provide an Auditor's opinion on the fund financial statements, a report on the internal controls and a report prepared in compliance with the provisions of the drinking water treatment revolving fund.