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WV Code § 22C-9-11 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22C. Environmental Resources; Boards, Authorities, Commissions and Compacts|Article 9. Oil and Gas Conservation|§22C-9-11. Judicial Review; Appeal to Supreme Court of Appeals; Legal Representation for Commission

(a) Any party adversely affected by an order of the commission shall be entitled to judicial review thereof. All of the pertinent provisions of section four, article five, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code, shall apply to and govern such judicial review with like effect as if the provisions of said section four were set forth in this section.(b) The judgment of the circuit court shall be final unless reversed, vacated or modified on appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeals in accordance with the provisions of section one, article six, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code, except that notwithstanding the provisions of said section one the petition seeking such review must be filed with said Supreme Court of Appeals within thirty days from the date of entry of the judgment of the circuit court. (c) Legal counsel and services for the commission in all appeal proceedings in any circuit court and the Supreme Court of Appeals shall be provided by the Attorney General or the Attorney General's assistants and in any circuit court by the prosecuting attorney of the county as well, all without additional compensation. The commission, with the written approval of the Attorney General, may employ special counsel to represent the commission at any such appeal proceedings.
WV Code § 22C-9-13 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22C. Environmental Resources; Boards, Authorities, Commissions and Compacts|Article 9. Oil and Gas Conservation|§22C-9-13. Special Oil and Gas Conservation Tax

Owners of leases on oil and gas for the exploration, development or production of oil or natural gas shall pay to the commission a special oil and gas conservation tax of 3¢ for each acre under lease, excluding from the tax the first twenty-five thousand acres. The commission shall deposit with the treasurer of the state of West Virginia, to the credit of the special oil and gas conservation fund, all taxes collected hereunder. The special oil and gas conservation fund shall be a special fund and shall be administered by the commission for the sole purpose of carrying out all costs necessary to carry out the provisions of this article. This tax shall be paid as provided herein annually on or before July 1, 1972, and on or before July 1, in each succeeding year.
WV Code § 22C-9-14 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22C. Environmental Resources; Boards, Authorities, Commissions and Compacts|Article 9. Oil and Gas Conservation|§22C-9-14. Penalties

(a) Any person who violates any provision of this article, any of the reasonable rules promulgated by the commission hereunder or any order or any final decision of the commission, other than a violation covered by the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $1,000, and each day that a violation continues shall constitute a new and separate violation.(b) Any person who, for the purpose of evading any provision of this article, any of the reasonable rules promulgated by the commission hereunder or any order or final decision of the commission, shall make or cause to be made any false entry or statement in a report required under the provisions of this article, any of the reasonable rules promulgated by the commission hereunder or any order or final decision of the commission, or shall make or cause to be made any false entry in any record, account or memorandum required under the provisions of this article, any of the reasonable rules promulgated by the commission hereunder or any order or any final decision of the commission, or who shall omit, or cause to be omitted, from any such record, account or memorandum, full, true and correct entries, or shall remove from this state or destroy, mutilate, alter or falsify any such record, account or memorandum, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned in the county jail not more than six months, or both fined and imprisoned.(c) Any person who knowingly aids or abets any other person in the violation of any provision of this article, any of the reasonable rules promulgated by the commission hereunder or any order of final decision of the commission, shall be subject to the same penalty as that prescribed in this article for the violation by such other person.
WV Code § 22C-9-15 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22C. Environmental Resources; Boards, Authorities, Commissions and Compacts|Article 9. Oil and Gas Conservation|§22C-9-15. Construction

Except as provided in subsection (c), section three of this article, this article shall be liberally construed so as to effectuate the declaration of public policy set forth in section one of this article.
WV Code § 22C-9-16 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22C. Environmental Resources; Boards, Authorities, Commissions and Compacts|Article 9. Oil and Gas Conservation|§22C-9-16. Rules, Orders and Permits Remain in Effect

(a) All orders, determinations, rules, permits, grants, contracts, certificates, licenses, waivers, bonds, authorizations and privileges which have been issued, made, granted or allowed to become effective pursuant to any prior enactment of this article and which are in effect on the effective date of this article shall continue in effect according to their terms until modified, terminated, superseded, set aside or revoked pursuant to this article, by a court of competent jurisdiction, or by operation of law.(b) Orders and actions of the commission or commissioner in the exercise of functions amended by this enactment are subject to judicial review to the same extent and in the same manner as if such orders and actions had been by the commission or commissioner exercising such functions immediately preceding the enactment of this article.
WV Code § 22C-10-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22C. Environmental Resources; Boards, Authorities, Commissions and Compacts|Article 10. Interstate Mining Compact|§22C-10-2. Bylaws of Interstate Mining Commission

In accordance with Article V (i) of the interstate mining compact, the commission shall file copies of its bylaws and any amendments thereto in the office of the Secretary of State of West Virginia.
WV Code § 22C-10-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22C. Environmental Resources; Boards, Authorities, Commissions and Compacts|Article 10. Interstate Mining Compact|§22C-10-3. Effective Date

This article is effective as of July 1, 1972.
WV Code § 22C-11-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22C. Environmental Resources; Boards, Authorities, Commissions and Compacts|Article 11. Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin|§22C-11-2. Appointment of Alternates

The Governor, by and with the consent of the Senate, shall appoint an alternate member for the two members of the commission who are not ex officio, and each alternate shall have power to act in the absence of the person for whom he is alternate. The Governor shall appoint the first alternates hereunder on or before July 1, 1949, the term of each alternate to run concurrently with the term of the member for whom he is alternate.
WV Code § 22C-11-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22C. Environmental Resources; Boards, Authorities, Commissions and Compacts|Article 11. Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin|§22C-11-3. Expenses of Commission; Appropriation; Officers and Employees; Meetings

The commissioners shall be reimbursed, out of moneys appropriated for such purposes, all sums which they necessarily shall expend in the discharge of their duties as members of such commission.There shall be appropriated to the commission out of any moneys in the State Treasury unexpended and available therefor, and not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary for the uses and purposes of the commission in carrying out the provisions of this article and the payment of the proper proportion of the State of West Virginia of the expenses of the "Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin," in accordance with article four of said compact.The commission shall elect from its membership a chairman and may also select a secretary who need not be a member. The commission may employ such assistants as it may deem necessarily required, and the duties of such assistants shall be prescribed and their compensation fixed by the commission and paid out of the State Treasury out of funds appropriated for such purposes upon the requisition of said commission.The commission shall meet at such times and places as agreed upon by the commissioners or upon call of its chairman.
WV Code § 22C-11-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22C. Environmental Resources; Boards, Authorities, Commissions and Compacts|Article 11. Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin|§22C-11-4. Effective Date; Findings

This article shall become effective upon the adoption of substantially similar amendments to the interstate compact by each of the signatory states to the compact, and upon the approval of the amendments to the compact by the Congress of the United States.
WV Code § 22C-11-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22C. Environmental Resources; Boards, Authorities, Commissions and Compacts|Article 11. Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin|§22C-11-5. Restrictions

Neither the Governor of the State of West Virginia nor any member of the commission aforesaid, representing the State of West Virginia, shall consent to the construction of any dam, whether in the State of West Virginia, or without this state, which shall flood lands in this state, without the express consent of the Legislature.
WV Code § 22C-12-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22C. Environmental Resources; Boards, Authorities, Commissions and Compacts|Article 12. Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission|§22C-12-2. Appointment of Members of Commission; Director of Division of Environmental Protection Member Ex Officio

In pursuance of article four of said compact, there shall be three members of the "Ohio River valley water sanitation commission" from the State of West Virginia. The Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint two persons as two of such commissioners, each of whom shall be a resident and citizen of this state. The terms of one of the said two commissioners first appointed shall be three years and of the other shall be six years; and their successors shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate for terms of six years each. Each commissioner shall hold office until his successor shall be appointed and qualified. Vacancies occurring in the office of any such commissioner from any reason or cause shall be filled by appointment by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, for the unexpired term. The third commissioner from this state is the director of the Division of Environmental Protection, ex officio, and the term of the ex officio commissioner terminates at the time he ceases to hold the office of director of the Division of Environmental Protection, and his successor as a commissioner shall be his successor as the director of the Division of Environmental Protection. With the exception of the issuance of any order under the provisions of article nine of the compact, the ex officio commissioner may delegate, from time to time, to any deputy or other subordinate in his division or office, the power to be present and participate, including voting, as his representative or substitute at any meeting of or hearing by or other proceeding of the commission. The terms of each of the initial three members shall begin at the date of the appointment of the two appointive commissioners, provided the said compact shall then have gone into effect in accordance with article eleven of the compact; otherwise shall begin upon the date which said compact shall become effective in accordance with said article eleven.Any commissioner may be removed from office by the Governor.
WV Code § 22C-12-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22C. Environmental Resources; Boards, Authorities, Commissions and Compacts|Article 12. Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission|§22C-12-3. Powers of Commission; Duties of State Officers, Departments, etc.; Jurisdiction of Circuit Courts; Enforcement of Article

There is hereby granted to the commission and commissioners thereof all the powers provided for in the said compact and all the powers necessary or incidental to the carrying out of said compact in every particular. All officers of this state are hereby authorized and directed to do all things falling within their respective provinces and jurisdiction necessary to or incidental to the carrying out of said compact in every particular; it being hereby declared to be the policy of this state to perform and carry out the said compact and to accomplish the purposes thereof. All officers, bureaus, departments and persons of and in the state government or administration of this state of West Virginia are hereby authorized and directed at convenient times and upon request of the said commission to furnish the said commission with information and data possessed by them or any of them and to aid said commission by loan of personnel or other means lying within their legal powers respectively.The circuit courts of this state are hereby granted the jurisdiction specified in article nine of said compact, and the Attorney General or any other law-enforcing officer of this state is hereby granted the power to institute any action for the enforcement of the orders of the commission as specified in said article nine of the compact.
WV Code § 22C-12-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22C. Environmental Resources; Boards, Authorities, Commissions and Compacts|Article 12. Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission|§22C-12-4. Powers Granted Herein Supplemental to Other Powers Vested in Commission

Any powers herein granted to the commission shall be regarded as in aid of and supplemental to and in no case a limitation upon any of the powers vested in said commission by other laws of this state or by the laws of the states of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, or by Congress or the terms of said compact.
WV Code § 22C-12-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22C. Environmental Resources; Boards, Authorities, Commissions and Compacts|Article 12. Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission|§22C-12-5. Expenses of Commission; Appropriations; Officers and Employees; Meetings

The commissioners shall be reimbursed out of moneys appropriated for such purposes, all sums which they necessarily shall expend in the discharge of their duties as members of such commission.There shall be appropriated to the commission out of any moneys in the State Treasury unexpended and available therefor, and not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary for the uses and purposes of the commission in carrying out the provisions of this article and the payment of the proper proportion of the State of West Virginia of the annual budget of the "Ohio River valley water sanitation commission" in accordance with article ten of said compact.The commission shall elect from its membership a chairman and may also select a secretary who need not be a member. The commission may employ such assistance as it may deem necessarily required, and the duties of such assistants shall be prescribed and their compensation fixed by the commission and paid out of the State Treasury out of funds appropriated for such purposes upon the requisition of said commission.The commission shall meet at such times and places as agreed upon by the commissioners or upon call of its chairman.
WV Code § 22C-12-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 22C. Environmental Resources; Boards, Authorities, Commissions and Compacts|Article 12. Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission|§22C-12-6. When Article Effective; Findings; Continuation

This article shall take effect and become operative and the compact be executed for and on behalf of this state only from and after the approval, ratification, adoption and entering into thereof by the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Virginia.
WV Code § 23-1-1c (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 23. Workers' Compensation|Article 1. General Administrative Provisions|§23-1-1c. Payment Withholding; Interception; Penalty

(a) All state, county, district and municipal officers and agents making contracts on behalf of the State of West Virginia or any political subdivision thereof shall withhold payment in the final settlement of contracts until the receipt of a certificate from the commission or the company created in article two-c of this chapter to the effect that all payments, interest and penalties thereon accrued against the contractor under this chapter as of the termination of the commission have been paid or that provisions satisfactory to the commission or company created in article two-c of this chapter have been made for payment. Any official violating this subsection is guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or confined in the county or regional jail for not more than one year, or both fined and confined.(b) Any agency of the state, for the limited purpose of intercepting, pursuant to section five-a, article two of this chapter, any payment by or through the state to an employer who is in default in payment of contributions, premiums, deposits, interest or penalties under the provisions of this chapter, shall assist the commission or company created in article two-c of this chapter in collecting the payment that is due under subsection (a) of this section. For this purpose, disclosure of joint delinquency and default lists of employers with respect to unemployment compensation as provided in section six-c, article one, chapter twenty-one-a of this code and Workers' Compensation contributions, premiums, interest, deposits or penalties is authorized. The commission and the Bureau of Employment Programs may enter into an interagency agreement to effect the provisions of this section. The lists may be in the form of a computerized database to be accessed by the Auditor, the Department of Tax and Revenue, the Department of Administration, the Division of Highways or other appropriate state agency or officer.
WV Code § 23-1-1d (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 23. Workers' Compensation|Article 1. General Administrative Provisions|§23-1-1d. Rules of Former Division of Workers' Compensation

Except as otherwise provided for in this chapter, all rules applicable to the former workers' compensation division of the Bureau of Employment Programs are hereby adopted and made effective as to the operation of the workers' compensation commission under this chapter to the extent that they are not in conflict with the current law. The board of managers shall review and approve, modify or replace all existing rules no later than July 1, 2006.
WV Code § 23-1-1e (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 23. Workers' Compensation|Article 1. General Administrative Provisions|§23-1-1e. Transfer of Assets and Contracts; Ability to Acquire, Own, Lease and Otherwise Manage Property

(a) With the establishment of the Workers' Compensation Commission, all assets and contracts, along with rights and obligations thereunder, obtained or signed on behalf of the Workers' Compensation Division of the Bureau of Employment Programs in furtherance of the purposes of this chapter, are hereby transferred and assigned to the Workers' Compensation Commission.(b) From the termination of the commission through June 30, 2008, the company may continue to contract and exchange data and information with the office of information, services and communication, the Bureau of Employment Programs, the Division of Motor Vehicles, various child support enforcement agencies and other similar state agencies and entities in a manner similar to the commission to accomplish the intent of this chapter.
WV Code § 23-1-1f (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 23. Workers' Compensation|Article 1. General Administrative Provisions|§23-1-1f. Authority of Insurance Commission to Exempt Employees From Classified Service; Exemption From Purchasing Rules

Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, upon termination of the commission, the Insurance Commissioner may:(1) Exempt no more than twenty positions of the offices of the Insurance Commissioner from the classified service of the state, the employees of which positions shall serve at the will and pleasure of the commissioner: Provided, That such exempt positions shall be in addition to those positions in classified-exempt service under the classification plan adopted by the Division of Personnel. The Insurance Commissioner shall report all exemptions made under this section to the Director of the Division of Personnel no later than July 1, 2007, and thereafter as the commissioner determines to be necessary; and(2) Expend such sums for professional services as he or she determines are necessary to perform those duties transferred to the Insurance Commissioner upon the termination of the commission. The provisions of article three, chapter five-a of this code relating to the Purchasing Division of the Department of Administration shall not apply to these contracts, and the Insurance Commissioner shall award the contract or contracts on a competitive basis.
WV Code § 23-1-1g (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 23. Workers' Compensation|Article 1. General Administrative Provisions|§23-1-1g. Legislative Intent to Create a Quasi-Public Entity

In recognition of the impact a state's workers' compensation premium levels may have on the state's ability to conduct economic development and the resulting need to operate the state's Workers' Compensation system in such a manner that will enable the lowest premiums to be charged employers while at the same time ensuring adequate benefit levels are provided to injured workers, it is the intent of the Legislature that the Workers' Compensation Commission remain a commission of the state as provided in article two, chapter five-f of this code until the company created in article two-c of this chapter is created and operational and the New Fund created in article two-c of this chapter has been funded. Until the termination of the commission and in order for the commission to be able to capture the efficiencies associated with private sector operations, the Workers' Compensation Commission is exempt from the provisions of the following effective upon the date upon which this enactment is made effective by the Legislature:(a) Article three, chapter five-a, related to the Department of Administration Purchasing Division; and(b) Section eleven, article three, chapter twelve, relating to appropriations, expenditures and deductions.