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WV Code § 7-11A-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 7. County Commissions and Officers|Article 11A. Museum Commissions|§7-11A-3. Commission Empowered to Employ Personnel and Charge Admission Fees

Any such commission may also be authorized and empowered by any such ordinance or order to employ, within the limits of funds available therefor, such employees, assistants, technical personnel and consultants as are necessary to discharge the duties and responsibilities of the commission which such duties shall be contained in the order or ordinance establishing the commission. Any such commission may, in its discretion, charge admission fees.Any such commission shall have the right and power to exercise eminent domain, with the approval of the county commission wherein the power of eminent domain is sought to be exercised, for the purpose of preserving historical and archeological points of interest in their respective jurisdictions.
WV Code § 7-11A-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 7. County Commissions and Officers|Article 11A. Museum Commissions|§7-11A-4. County Commission or Municipality May Contribute Money to Commission; Commission May Receive Gifts, etc.

Any municipality or county establishing any such commission shall have plenary power and authority to appropriate and contribute funds to such commission for expenditure by the commission for the purposes of this article and any expenditure and contribution of county commission or municipal funds shall be under this article. Any such commission may receive gifts, grants, donations, bequests or devises from sources other than public funds.
WV Code § 7-11A-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 7. County Commissions and Officers|Article 11A. Museum Commissions|§7-11A-5. County, City and State Agencies Shall Assist Commission

Upon the request of any such commission, all agencies of the city, county and state shall assist such commission in the discharge of its duties and functions.
WV Code § 7-11A-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 7. County Commissions and Officers|Article 11A. Museum Commissions|§7-11A-6. Commission Must Cooperate and Coordinate Activities With State Agencies

Every such commission shall cooperate and coordinate its activities with the West Virginia department of archives and history, the West Virginia historical society and the West Virginia antiquities commission.
WV Code § 7-11B-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 7. County Commissions and Officers|Article 11B. West Virginia Tax Increment Financing Act|§7-11B-1. Short Title

This article may be known and cited as "The West Virginia Tax Increment Financing Act".
WV Code § 7-11B-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 7. County Commissions and Officers|Article 11B. West Virginia Tax Increment Financing Act|§7-11B-2. Findings and Legislative Purpose

(a) It is found and declared to be the policy of this state to promote and facilitate the orderly development and economic stability of its communities. County commissions need the ability to raise revenue to finance capital improvements and facilities that are designed to encourage economic growth and development in geographic areas characterized by high levels of unemployment, stagnant employment, slow income growth, contaminated property or inadequate infrastructure. The construction of necessary capital improvements in accordance with local economic development plans will encourage investing in job-producing private development and expand the public tax base.(b) It is also found and declared that capital improvements or facilities in any area that result in the increase in the value of property located in the area or encourage increased employment within the area will serve a public purpose for each taxing unit possessing the authority to impose ad valorem taxes in the area.(c) It is the purpose of this article:(1) To encourage local levying bodies to cooperate in the allocation of future tax revenues that are used to finance capital improvements and facilities designed to encourage private development in selected areas; and(2) To assist local governments that have a competitive disadvantage in their ability to attract business, private investment or commercial development due to their location; to encourage remediation of contaminated property; to prevent or arrest the decay of selected areas due to the inability of existing financing methods to provide capital improvements and facilities; and to encourage private investment designed to promote and facilitate the orderly development or redevelopment of selected areas.
WV Code § 7-11B-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 7. County Commissions and Officers|Article 11B. West Virginia Tax Increment Financing Act|§7-11B-5. Powers Supplemental

The powers conferred by this article are in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred upon county commissions and municipalities by the Legislature relating to the issuance of industrial and commercial development bonds and refunding bonds.
WV Code § 7-11B-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 7. County Commissions and Officers|Article 11B. West Virginia Tax Increment Financing Act|§7-11B-6. Application for Development or Redevelopment Plan

(a) An agency or a project developer may apply to a county commission or the governing body of a municipality for adoption of a development or redevelopment project plan. The application shall state the project's economic impact, viability, estimated revenues and potential for job creation and such other information as the county commission or the governing body of the municipality may require.(b) Copies of the application shall be made available to the public in the county clerk's office or the municipal recorder's office when the application is filed with the governing body of a municipality.
WV Code § 7-11B-9 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 7. County Commissions and Officers|Article 11B. West Virginia Tax Increment Financing Act|§7-11B-9. Project Plan Amendment

(a) The county commission may by order, or the governing body of a municipality by ordinance, adopt an amendment to a project plan.(b) Adoption of an amendment to a project plan shall be preceded by a public hearing held by the county commission, or governing body of the municipality, at which interested parties shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity to express their views on the amendment.(1) Notice of the hearing shall be published as a Class II legal advertisement in accordance with 59-3-2 of this code.(2) Prior to publication, a copy of the notice shall be sent by first-class mail to the chief executive officer of all other local levying bodies having the power to levy taxes on property within the development or redevelopment district.(3) Copies of the proposed plan amendments shall be made available to the public at the county clerks office or municipal clerks office at least fifteen days prior to the hearing.(c) One or more existing development or redevelopment districts may be combined pursuant to lawfully adopted amendments to the original plans for each district: Provided, That the county commission, or governing body of the municipality, finds that the combination of the districts will not impair the security for any tax increment financing obligations previously issued pursuant to this article.(1) The base assessed value of the real and tangible personal property located in the combined development or redevelopment district following such combination shall be the same base assessed value as existed for such real and tangible personal property in each of the separate development or redevelopment districts prior to such combination. (2) The termination date for the combined development or redevelopment district which results from the combination of two or more previously created districts shall be the termination date as provided pursuant to 7-11B-10 of this code of the development or redevelopment district which had the latest termination date prior to the combination of such districts.
WV Code § 7-11B-10 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 7. County Commissions and Officers|Article 11B. West Virginia Tax Increment Financing Act|§7-11B-10. Termination of Development or Redevelopment District

(a) No development or redevelopment district may be in existence for a period longer than thirty years and no tax increment financing obligations may have a final maturity date later than the termination date of the area or district: Provided, That, for any existing development or redevelopment district for which tax increment financing obligations have been issued by a county commission, or the governing body of a municipality, prior to December 31, 2020, the termination date for that existing development or redevelopment district may be extended not more than five years or until December 31, 2050, whichever is earlier.(b) The county commission or governing body of the municipality creating the development or redevelopment district may set a shorter period for the existence of the district. In this event, no tax increment financing obligations may have a final maturity date later than the termination date of the district. The county commission or the governing body of the municipality which created the development or redevelopment district may not take action to terminate a district prior to the time otherwise provided in its official action creating or extending the district if the county commission or the governing body of the municipality then has tax increment revenue obligations which remain outstanding and unpaid.(c) Upon termination of the district, no further ad valorem tax revenues shall be distributed to the tax increment financing fund of the district.(d) The county commission shall adopt, upon the expiration of the time periods set forth in this section, an order terminating the development or redevelopment district created by the county commission: Provided, That no district shall be terminated so long as bonds with respect to the district remain outstanding.(e) The governing body of the municipality shall repeal, upon the expiration of the time periods set forth in this section, the ordinance establishing the development or redevelopment district: Provided, That no district shall be terminated so long as bonds with respect to the district remain outstanding.
WV Code § 7-11B-11 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 7. County Commissions and Officers|Article 11B. West Virginia Tax Increment Financing Act|§7-11B-11. Costs of Formation of Development or Redevelopment District

(a) The county commission, or the governing body of a municipality, may pay, but shall have no obligation to pay, the costs of preparing the project plan or forming the development or redevelopment district created by them.(b) If the county commission, or the governing body of the municipality, elects not to incur those costs, they shall be made project costs of the district and reimbursed from bond proceeds or other financing or may be paid by developers, property owners or other persons interested in the success of the development or redevelopment project.
WV Code § 7-11B-12 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 7. County Commissions and Officers|Article 11B. West Virginia Tax Increment Financing Act|§7-11B-12. Overlapping Districts Prohibited,

The boundaries of any development and redevelopment districts shall not overlap with any other development or redevelopment district.
WV Code § 7-11B-13 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 7. County Commissions and Officers|Article 11B. West Virginia Tax Increment Financing Act|§7-11B-13. Conflicts of Interest; Required Disclosures and Abstention

(a) If any member of the governing body of an agency applying for a development or redevelopment district or a development or redevelopment project plan, a member of the county commission considering the application or a member of the governing body of a municipality considering the application owns or controls an interest, direct or indirect, in any property included in the development or redevelopment district, or proposed development or redevelopment district, he or she shall refrain from any further official involvement in regard to such application shall abstain from voting on any matter pertaining to such application, and shall abstain from communicating with other members concerning any matter pertaining to such application.(b) With respect to development or redevelopment projects, the provisions of subsection (a), section fifteen, article ten, chapter sixty-one of this code do not apply to any person who, or person whose spouse, is a salaried employee of a project developer under a contract subject to the provisions of said subsection if the employee, his or her spouse or child:(1) Is not a party to the contract;(2) Is not an owner, a shareholder, a director or an officer of a private entity under the contract;(3) Receives no commission, bonus or other direct remuneration or thing of value by virtue of the contract;(4) Does not participate in the deliberations or awarding of the contract; and(5) Does not approve, vote for or otherwise authorize the payment of public funds, including, but not limited to, tax increment revenues, pursuant to or as a result of the contract.(c) Additionally, no member of the county commission or governing body of a municipality considering a development or redevelopment district or project plan, no member of the governing body of an agency proposing a development or redevelopment district or project plan, or any employee of the county, municipality or agency shall acquire any interest, direct or indirect, in any property in a development or redevelopment district or project area, or a proposed development or redevelopment district or project area, during the period of time between when the individual first obtains personal knowledge of the development or redevelopment district or project plan and the completion of the public hearing regarding the development or redevelopment district or project plan or on a date which the county commission or governing body of a municipality publicly announces that the development or redevelopment district or project plan is no longer under consideration.
WV Code § 7-11B-16 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 7. County Commissions and Officers|Article 11B. West Virginia Tax Increment Financing Act|§7-11B-16. Valuation of Real Property

(a) Upon and after the effective date of the creation of a development or redevelopment district, the county assessor of the county in which the district is located shall transmit to the county clerk a certified statement of the base assessed value, total ad valorem regular levy rate, total general obligation bond debt service ad valorem rate and total excess levy rate applicable for the development or redevelopment district.(1) The assessor shall undertake, upon request of the county commission, or the governing body of the municipality, creating the development or redevelopment district, an investigation, examination and inspection of the taxable real and tangible personal property having a tax situs in the district and shall reaffirm or revalue the base value for assessment of the property in accordance with the findings of the investigation, examination and inspection.(2) The county assessor shall determine, according to his or her best judgment from all sources available to him or her, the full aggregate assessed value of the taxable property in the district, which aggregate assessed valuation, upon certification thereof by the assessor to the clerk, constitutes the base value of the development or redevelopment district.(b) The county assessor shall give notice annually to the designated finance officer of each levying body having the power to levy taxes on property within each district of the current value and the incremental value of the property in the development or redevelopment district.(c) The assessor shall also determine the tax increment by applying the applicable ad valorem regular levy rates to the incremental value.(d) The notice shall also explain that the entire amount of the tax increment allocable to property within the development or redevelopment district will be paid to the tax increment financing fund of the development or redevelopment district until it is terminated.(e) The assessor shall identify upon the landbooks those parcels of property that are within each existing development or redevelopment district, specifying on landbooks the name of each district.
WV Code § 7-11B-19 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 7. County Commissions and Officers|Article 11B. West Virginia Tax Increment Financing Act|§7-11B-19. Tax Increment Obligations Generally

(a) Tax increment obligations may be issued by a county commission, or the governing body of the municipality, to pay project costs for projects included in the development or redevelopment plan approved by the Development Office and adopted by the county commission, or the governing body of the municipality, that are located in a development or redevelopment district or on land not in the district that is contiguous to the district and which contain infrastructure or other facilities which serve the district.(1) Tax increment financing obligations may be issued for project costs, as defined in section three of this article, which may include interest prior to and during the acquisition, construction and equipping of a project and for a reasonable time thereafter, with such reserves as may be required by any agreement securing the obligations and all other expenses incidental to planning, carrying out and financing the project.(2) The proceeds of tax increment financing obligations may also be used to reimburse the costs of any interim financing or cash expenditures entered on behalf of projects in the development or redevelopment district.(b) Tax increment financing obligations issued under this article shall be payable solely from the tax increment or other revenues deposited to the credit of the tax increment financing fund of the development or redevelopment district.(c) Under no event shall tax increment financing obligations be secured or be deemed to be secured by the full faith and credit of the county commission or the municipality issuing the tax increment financing obligations.(d) Every tax increment financing bond, note or other obligation issued under this article shall recite on its face that it is a special obligation payable solely from the tax increment and other revenues pledged for its repayment.
WV Code § 7-11B-20 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 7. County Commissions and Officers|Article 11B. West Virginia Tax Increment Financing Act|§7-11B-20. Tax Increment Financing Obligations -- Authority to Issue

For the purpose of paying project costs, or for the purpose of refunding notes issued under this article for the purpose of paying project costs, the county commission or municipality creating the development or redevelopment district may issue tax increment financing obligations payable out of tax increments and other revenues deposited to the tax increment financing fund of the development or redevelopment district.
WV Code § 7-11B-21 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 7. County Commissions and Officers|Article 11B. West Virginia Tax Increment Financing Act|§7-11B-21. Tax Increment Financing Obligations -- Authorizing Order or Ordinance

(a) Issuance of tax increment financing obligations shall be authorized by order of the county commission, or ordinance of the municipality, that created the development or redevelopment district.(b) The order, or ordinance, shall state the name of the development or redevelopment district, the amount of tax increment financing obligations authorized, the type of obligation authorized and the interest rate or rates to be borne by the bonds, notes or other tax increment financing obligations.(c) The order or ordinance may prescribe the terms, form and content of the tax increment financing obligations and other particulars or information the county commission, or governing body of the municipality, issuing the obligations deems useful or it may include by reference the terms and conditions set forth in a trust indenture or other document securing the development or redevelopment project tax increment financing obligations.
WV Code § 7-11B-22 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 7. County Commissions and Officers|Article 11B. West Virginia Tax Increment Financing Act|§7-11B-22. Tax Increment Financing Obligations Terms, Conditions

(a) Tax increment financing obligations may not be issued in an amount exceeding the estimated aggregate project costs, including all costs of issuance of the tax increment financing obligations.(b) Tax increment financing obligations shall not be included in the computation of the Constitutional debt limitation of the county commission or municipality issuing the tax increment financing obligations.(c) Tax increment financing obligations shall mature over a period not exceeding thirty years from their issue date, or a period terminating with the date of termination of the development or redevelopment district, whichever period terminates earlier.(d) Tax increment financing obligations may contain a provision authorizing their redemption, in whole or in part, at stipulated prices, at the option of the county commission or municipality issuing the obligations, and, if so, the obligations shall provide the method of selecting the tax increment financing obligations to be redeemed.(e) The principal and interest on tax increment financing obligations may be payable at any place set forth in the resolution, trust indenture or other document governing the obligations.(f) Bonds or notes shall be issued in registered form.(g) Bonds or notes may be issued in any denomination.(h) Each tax increment financing obligation issued under this article is declared to be a negotiable instrument.(i) The tax increment financing obligations may be sold at public or private sale.(j) Insofar as they are consistent with subsections (a), (b) and (c) of this section, the procedures for issuance, form, contents, execution, negotiation and registration of county and municipal industrial or commercial revenue bonds set forth in 13-2C-1 et seq. of this code are incorporated by reference herein.(k) The bonds may be refunded or refinanced and refunding bonds may be issued in any principal amount: Provided, That the last maturity of the refunding bonds shall not be later than the termination date of the district as set forth in 7-11B-10 of this code.
WV Code § 7-11B-23 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 7. County Commissions and Officers|Article 11B. West Virginia Tax Increment Financing Act|§7-11B-23. Tax Increment Financing Obligations -– Security -– Marketability

To increase the security and marketability of tax increment financing obligations, the county commission or municipality issuing the obligations may:(1) Create a lien for the benefit of the holders of the obligations upon any capital improvements, facilities or both financed by the obligations; or(2) Make such covenants and do any and all such actions, not inconsistent with the Constitution of this state, which may be necessary, convenient or desirable in order to additionally secure the obligations or which tend to make the obligations more marketable according to the best judgment of the county commission or municipality issuing the tax increment financing obligations.