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WV Code § 7-26-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 7. County Commissions and Officers|Article 26. West Virginia Sheriffs' Bureau of Professional Standards|§7-26-4. Training Promoted by the Bureau

The bureau may contract with or agree with any state university or college in West Virginia or any other organization for a university, college or other organization to provide specialized training for sheriffs and deputies as it deems appropriate for the efficient operation of a sheriff's office: Provided, That nothing herein shall be construed to circumvent or replace the duties or authority of the training of law-enforcement officers in this state as prescribed in article twenty-nine, chapter thirty of this code.
WV Code § 7-26-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 7. County Commissions and Officers|Article 26. West Virginia Sheriffs' Bureau of Professional Standards|§7-26-5. Standard Color for Motor Vehicles Used by Sheriffs; Standard Badges and Uniforms; Wearing Other Than Standard Uniform or Badge; Unauthorized Wearing of Official Uniforms or Badges

(a) The bureau, by legislative rules, may adopt a standard color for the motor vehicles used by the various sheriffs and deputy sheriffs of West Virginia.(b) For purposes of uniformity, the bureau may establish a standard badge and uniform to be worn by all sheriffs and deputy sheriffs.(c) On and after July 1, 2015, any sheriff or deputy sheriff shall not wear any uniform or badge other than the standard uniform and badge as provided in subsection (b) of this section, except when engaged in specialized duty or undercover work, or other similar duties wherein the identity of the officer should be undisclosed: Provided, That nothing herein shall be construed to prevent members of any military, fraternal or similar organization or any other law-enforcement officer from wearing any insignia officially adopted or worn prior to the effective date of this section.(d) Nothing in this article prevents an honorably retired sheriff or deputy sheriff from acquiring a standard uniform and insignia in accordance with section seventeen-d, article fourteen of this chapter.
WV Code § 7-26-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 7. County Commissions and Officers|Article 26. West Virginia Sheriffs' Bureau of Professional Standards|§7-26-6. Standards for Interagency Cooperation

(a) This section is created for the purpose of enhancing cooperative efforts undertaken by sheriff offices for the more efficient investigation and apprehension of persons who violate the criminal laws of the state of West Virginia or the United States and also to assist the victims of such crimes. The provisions of this section are meant to promote interagency communication, intelligence gathering, multijurisdictional investigations, provision of personnel to work on temporary special assignment with the personnel of another sheriff's office and making available equipment, training, technical assistance and information systems.(b) Sheriffs and deputy sheriffs may, from time to time, be called upon by a sheriff of another jurisdiction for assistance during incidents where the resources of that county are not adequate to meet the needs of a particular circumstance or emergency in accordance with article ten, chapter fifteen of this code. Sheriffs and deputy sheriffs are hereby authorized to provide multiagency assistance to another county pursuant to the requirements outlined in this section: Provided, That any mutual aid agreement entered into by a sheriff of any county shall remain in effect unless and until the agreement is withdrawn in writing by the sheriff of that county, regardless of whether a new sheriff of the county is elected or appointed.(c) The provisions of this section apply only to requests for assistance made by and to authorized representatives of a sheriff's office whose jurisdiction is involved in a mutual aid agreement pursuant to article ten, chapter fifteen of this code. The provisions of this section shall be activated only upon request by one of the aforementioned authorized representatives or their designee.
WV Code § 7-27-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 7. County Commissions and Officers|Article 27. Letting Our Counties Act Locally Act|§7-27-1. Short Title

This article shall be known as the "Letting Our Counties Act Locally Act.”
WV Code § 7-27-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 7. County Commissions and Officers|Article 27. Letting Our Counties Act Locally Act|§7-27-2. Purpose and Findings

(a) The Legislature hereby makes the following findings:(1) Roads maintained by the Department of Transportation include:(A) Thirty-eight thousand six hundred eighty-four miles of public roads;(B) Thirty-five thousand eight hundred ninety-three miles of state owned highways;(C) Four hundred sixty-eight miles of state owned Interstate highway;(D) Eighty-eight miles of West Virginia Turnpike;(E) One thousand nine hundred seventy-two miles included in the National Highway System, twenty-three miles of which are connectors to other modes of transportation such as airports, trains and buses;(F) Six thousand nine hundred fourteen bridges, thirty-three percent of which are more than one hundred feet in length;(G) One all-American road;(H) Five national byways;(I) Fourteen state byways; and(J) Eight backways. (2) A 2012 road needs assessment prepared for Governor Tomblin’s Blue Ribbon Commission by Wilbur Smith Associates reveals that:(A) During the next seventeen years:(i) Fifty-one thousand one hundred eight lane miles of road will need to be improved;(ii) Ten thousand four hundred one lane miles will need modernization improvements including lane widening, road reconstruction, and shoulder improvements; and(iii) Three thousand four hundred two lane miles will need to be constructed;(B) Within the next twenty-five years:(i) Eight hundred fourteen bridges will need to be replaced;(ii) Five hundred seventy-seven bridges will need to be widened;(iii) Eight bridges will need to be straightened; and(iv) One bridge will need to be raised;(C) The funding gap for road construction and maintenance over the next twenty-five years is estimated to be $36.7 billion, excluding new road construction; and(D) The funding gap for bridges construction and maintenance was $2.4 billion, excluding new bridge construction.(3) Modern, safe roads are critical to economic development.(4) Modern, safe roads and bridges are essential to the growth of our communities and to the public health, welfare and safety.(5) Counties need greater ability to influence when and where new roads are constructed and existing roads and bridges are modernized or upgraded, including the ability to recommend to the Division of Highways road and bridge construction projects and to assist in the financing of those projects.(b) The purpose of this article is to provide county commissions with a source of funding to finance the accelerated construction of new roads and bridges in their respective counties; and the accelerated upgrading or modernizing of existing state roads and bridges in their counties, by allowing them to impose transportation sales and use taxes as provided in this article.
WV Code § 7-27-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 7. County Commissions and Officers|Article 27. Letting Our Counties Act Locally Act|§7-27-4. Creation of County Road Construction Project Plan

§7-27-4. Creation of county road construction project plan.A county commission may, upon its own initiative or upon application of: (1) a highway authority; (2) a local, county or regional economic development authority; or (3) any resident of the county, propose creation of a road construction project plan for the county, or propose an amendment to an existing road construction project plan of the county.
WV Code § 7-27-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 7. County Commissions and Officers|Article 27. Letting Our Counties Act Locally Act|§7-27-6. Finalization of Road Construction Project Plan

(a) Resolution of county commission. – After the public hearing or hearings are concluded and the public comment period is closed, and after receipt of any required resolution of the governing body of a municipality, as required in subsection (b) of this section, the county commission may, by resolution, finalize its road construction project plan: Provided, That if there is more than one road construction project in the road construction project plan, the road construction project plan shall include a prioritization of each road construction project.(b) Consent of municipality in which project located. – No county commission may adopt a resolution approving a road construction project plan, any portion of which is located within the boundaries of a Class I, II, III or IV municipality, without the adoption of a resolution by the governing body of that municipality consenting to the road construction project.
WV Code § 7-27-9 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 7. County Commissions and Officers|Article 27. Letting Our Counties Act Locally Act|§7-27-9. Requirement for Referendum on Final Road Construction Project Plan

(a) After obtaining project certification from the Commissioner of Highways under section eight of this article the county commission shall submit the question of the adoption of a road construction project plan to the voters in a county-wide referendum to be held in conjunction with a primary or general election. The question to be voted on in the referendum shall identify the project plan by its name and location, its projected cost estimate and how the cost of the road construction project plan is to be financed. The question shall state if the road construction plan is to be financed in whole or in part by the imposition of a county transportation sales and use tax, including the rate of the tax to be imposed, and if it is to be financed in whole or in part by the issuance of special revenue bonds as authorized by this article.(b) No county commission may proceed with a road construction plan which will be financed, in whole or in part, by the imposition of a transportation sales and use tax or by the issuance of special revenue bonds as authorized by this article unless a majority of voters casting votes in the referendum vote to approve the road construction project plan.
WV Code § 7-27-10 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 7. County Commissions and Officers|Article 27. Letting Our Counties Act Locally Act|§7-27-10. Amendment of Road Construction Project Plan

(a) General. – A road construction project plan adopted by order of the county commission may be amended by the county commission at any time to add one or more projects, delete one or more projects, or redesignate the order in which projects are to be completed as funds become available.(b) Procedure to amend project plan. – The procedures that apply to creation of a road construction project plan shall also apply to each proposed amendment to the adopted road construction project plan.
WV Code § 7-27-11 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 7. County Commissions and Officers|Article 27. Letting Our Counties Act Locally Act|§7-27-11. Termination of Road Construction Project Plan

(a) General. – No road construction project plan may be in existence for a period longer than thirty years, except as otherwise provided in this section, and no revenue bond secured by collections of the taxes imposed by a county commission may have a final maturity date more than thirty years after date of issuance of the revenue bonds.(b) Extension of plan. – Each amendment of a county’s roads construction project plan approved by the Commissioner of Highways that results in execution of an intergovernmental agreement by the county commission and the Commissioner of Highways shall extend the term of the project plan for thirty years from the date on which the intergovernmental agreement is fully executed.(c) Termination of county transportation sales and use taxes. – The county transportation sales and use tax imposed by a county commission pursuant to this article shall expire on the first day of the calendar quarter that begins one hundred twenty days after the following: (1) If no special revenue bonds are issued as authorized by this article, the day the county commission notifies the Tax Commissioner in writing that its road construction projects financed, in whole or in part, with transportation sales and use tax revenue have been completed; or (2) If special revenue bonds have been issued as authorized by this article, the West Virginia Economic Development Authority certifies to the county commission and to the Tax Commissioner that all principal and interest due, or to become due, on the bonds issued under this article has been paid or is otherwise provided for.(d) Shorter period. – The county commission may set an earlier termination date for the county transportation sales and use tax imposed pursuant to this article: Provided, That no revenue bonds may have a final maturity date later than the termination date of the county transportation sales and use tax.(e) Termination order. – Prior to expiration of the county transportation sales and use tax, the county commission shall adopt an order terminating the county transportation sales and use tax on the date specified therein: Provided, That the order may not extinguish any person’s liability for payment of county transportation sales and use taxes that were assessed prior to termination of the taxes. With respect to any such taxes, the rights and duties of the taxpayer and of the State of West Virginia shall be fully and completely preserved.(f) Prohibition on termination or rate reduction. – The county commission may not repeal the order imposing a county transportation sales and use tax pursuant to this article, or reduce the rate at which the county transportation sales and use taxes are imposed so long as any revenue bonds secured by the taxes remain outstanding, unless payment of the bonds has been secured in full.
WV Code § 7-27-12 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 7. County Commissions and Officers|Article 27. Letting Our Counties Act Locally Act|§7-27-12. Order Adopting Road Construction Project Plan or Plan Amendment

§7-27-12. Order adopting road construction project plan or plan amendment.Upon approval of a road construction project plan or an amendment to an existing project plan by the Commissioner of Highways, and approval of the voters in the referendum provided in section nine of this article, the county commission shall enter an order that:(1) Describes each approved road construction project sufficiently to identify with ordinary and reasonable certainty the geographic location in the county of each road construction project included in the county’s plan;(2) Identifies the road construction project plan by the name assigned by the Commissioner of Highways, and identifies each project within the road construction project plan by the project number assigned by the Commissioner of Highways; and(3) Establishes a county transportation sales tax and a county transportation use tax as provided in this article at rates not to exceed one percent: Provided, That the rate of the sales tax and the rate of the use tax shall at all times be identical.
WV Code § 7-27-14 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 7. County Commissions and Officers|Article 27. Letting Our Counties Act Locally Act|§7-27-14. Creation of County Road Improvement Account

(a) Account created. – There is hereby created in the State Treasury a Special Revenue Revolving Fund account known as the "County Road Improvement Account” which is an interest-bearing account that shall be invested in the manner described in section nine-c, article six, chapter twelve of this code, with the interest income a proper credit to the account.(b) County subaccount. – A separate and segregated subaccount within the account shall be established for each county that imposes a county transportation sales and use tax pursuant to this article.(c) Additional funds. – In addition to the county transportation sales and use taxes levied and collected as provided in this article, funds paid into the account for the credit of any subaccount may also be derived from the following sources:(1) All interest or return on the investment accruing to the subaccount;(2) Any gifts, grants, bequests, transfers, appropriations or donations which are received from any governmental entity or unit or any person, firm, foundation or corporation; and(3) Any appropriations by the Legislature which are made for this purpose.(d) Expenditures from account. – The Commissioner of Highways may withdraw funds from a county’s subaccount only in accordance with one or more intergovernmental agreements or contracts executed by the county commission of that county.
WV Code § 7-27-15 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 7. County Commissions and Officers|Article 27. Letting Our Counties Act Locally Act|§7-27-15. Cash Basis Projects; Issuance of Road Construction Special Revenue Bonds by West Virginia Economic Development Authority

(a) Cash basis projects. – Each county commission that has a subaccount in the County Road Improvement Account established pursuant to this article may, in its discretion and pursuant to an intergovernmental written agreement with the county commission, authorize the Commissioner of Highways to use the moneys in its subaccount to finance the costs of road construction projects in the county on a cash basis.(b) Special revenue bonds. – The county commission may, by intergovernmental written agreement, authorize the West Virginia Economic Development Authority to issue, in the manner prescribed by this article, special revenue bonds secured by county transportation sales and use taxes imposed pursuant to this article to finance or refinance all or part of a road construction project in the county and pledge all or any part of the county transportation sales and use taxes for the payment of the principal of and interest on such bonds and the reserves therefor.
WV Code § 7-27-16 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 7. County Commissions and Officers|Article 27. Letting Our Counties Act Locally Act|§7-27-16. Commissioner's Authority Over Road Construction Projects Accepted Into the State Road System; Use of State Road Funds

(a) Notwithstanding anything in this article to the contrary, the Commissioner of Highways has final approval of any road construction project. However, no state road funds may be used, singly or together with funds from any other source, for any purpose or in any manner contrary to or prohibited by the Constitution and laws of this state or the federal government or where such use, in the sole discretion of the Commissioner of Highways, would jeopardize receipt of federal funds.(b) All road construction projects that shall be accepted as part of the state road system, and all real property interests and appurtenances, are under the exclusive jurisdiction and control of the Commissioner of Highways, who may exercise the same rights and authority as he or she has over other transportation facilities in the state road system.
WV Code § 7-27-17 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 7. County Commissions and Officers|Article 27. Letting Our Counties Act Locally Act|§7-27-17. Qualifying a Transportation Project as a Public Improvement

All road construction projects authorized under this article are public improvements subject to article one-c, chapter twenty-one of this code, and either article twenty-two, chapter five of this code or article two-d, chapter seventeen of this code.
WV Code § 7-27-18 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 7. County Commissions and Officers|Article 27. Letting Our Counties Act Locally Act|§7-27-18. Reports by Commissioner of Highways

Each year, the Commissioner of Highways shall prepare a report giving the status of each road construction project being constructed pursuant to this article and file it by October 1 with the Governor, the Joint Committee on Government and Finance of the Legislature and with each county commission with which the Commissioner of Highways has an intergovernmental agreement executed pursuant to this article. The report shall include the following information:(1) The identification, by county, of each road construction project for which an intergovernmental agreement has been executed pursuant to this article, and the status of the road construction project as of June 30 preceding the due date of the report;(2) The estimated cost of each road construction project included in the report;(3) The source or sources of funding for each road construction project included in the report;(4) If revenue bonds have been issued by the West Virginia Economic Development Authority, the amount of the bonds issued that are outstanding as of June 30 preceding the due date of the report for each project included in the report;(5) The balance as of June 30 preceding the due date of the report of each county's subaccount in the County Improvement Account;(6) The amount of county transportation sales and use taxes deposited into each county's subaccount in the County Road Improvement Account during the fiscal year ending June 30 preceding the due date of the report; and(7) The amount the Commissioner of Highways withdrew from each county's subaccount in the County Road Improvement Account during the fiscal year ending June 30 preceding the due date of the report to pay debt service on revenue bonds issued pursuant to this article or to construct projects financed on a pay-as-you-go basis.
WV Code § 7-27-19 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 7. County Commissions and Officers|Article 27. Letting Our Counties Act Locally Act|§7-27-19. Issuance of County Road Construction Special Revenue Bonds

§7-27-19. Issuance of county road construction special revenue bonds.Special revenue bonds may be issued by the West Virginia Economic Development Authority pursuant to an intergovernmental written agreement between the county commission and the Commissioner of Highways to finance or refinance, in whole or in part, road construction projects in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding the amount which the county commission(s) and the Authority mutually agree can be paid as to both principal and interest and reasonable margins for a reserve, if any, therefor from county transportation sales and use tax collections. In the discretion of the Authority, special revenue bonds issued pursuant to this article may be issued for road construction projects in two or more counties.(1) The Authority shall establish a fund to deposit county transportation sales and use tax collections to pay debt service on the bonds.(2) The State Treasurer shall thereafter transfer from the county's subaccount all county transportation sales and use tax revenues pledged to the payment of principal and interest of the road construction special revenue bonds into the fund established under subdivision (1) of this section.(3) The road construction special revenue bonds shall be authorized to be issued by the Authority pursuant to this article, and shall be secured, shall bear such date and shall mature at such time, not exceeding thirty years from the date of issue, shall bear interest at such rate or rates, including variable rates, be in such denominations, be in such form, carry such registration privileges, be payable in such medium of payment and at such place or places and such time or times and be subject to such terms of redemption as the Authority may authorize. Road construction special revenue bonds may be sold by the West Virginia Economic Development Authority, at public or private sale, at or not less than the price the Authority determines. The road construction special revenue bonds shall be executed by manual or facsimile signature of an authorized officer of the West Virginia Economic Development Authority. In case any authorized officer whose signature, or a facsimile of whose signature, appears on any bond ceases to be an authorized officer before delivery of those bonds, the signature or facsimile is nevertheless sufficient for all purposes the same as if he or she had remained in office until the delivery.