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WV Code § 11-6-18 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 11. Taxation|Article 6. Assessment of Public Service Businesses|§11-6-18. Payment of Assessment by Owner or Operator

The Auditor shall, as soon as possible after such assessment is completed, make out and transmit by mail or otherwise, to such owner or operator, a statement of all taxes and levies so charged, and it shall be the duty of such owner or operator, so assessed and charged, to pay one half of the amount of such taxes and levies into the treasury of the state by September 1, and the remaining one half by the first day of the following March, subject to a deduction of two and one-half per centum if the taxes be paid on or before the date due. If such owner or operator fail to pay such taxes and levies when due, interest thereon at the rate of nine per centum per annum until paid shall be added, and the Auditor shall certify, after the date the second installment is due, to the sheriff of each county, the amount of such taxes and levies assessed within his county; and it shall be the duty of every sheriff to collect and account for such taxes and levies in the same manner as other taxes are levied or collected and accounted for by him The payment of such taxes and levies by any such owner or operator shall not prejudice or affect the right of such owner or operator to obtain relief against the assessment or valuation of its property in proceedings now pending or hereafter brought under the provisions of section twelve of this article, or in any suit, action or proceeding in which such relief may be obtainable; and if under the provisions of said section twelve or in any suit, action or proceeding, it be ascertained that the assessment or valuation of the property of such owner or operator is too high and the same is accordingly corrected, it shall be the duty of the Auditor of the state to issue to the owner or operator a certificate showing the amount of taxes and levies which have been overpaid, and such certificate shall be receivable thereafter for the amount of such overpayment in payment of any taxes and levies assessed against the property of such owner or operator, its successors or assigns. It shall likewise be the duty of said Auditor to certify to the county court, school districts and municipalities, the amounts of the respective overpayments distributable to such counties, school districts and municipalities. All moneys received by the Auditor under the provisions of this section shall be transmitted to the several counties within twenty days from receipt thereof.
WV Code § 11-6-19 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 11. Taxation|Article 6. Assessment of Public Service Businesses|§11-6-19. Accounting by Sheriff for District and Municipal Taxes From Public Service Corporations

When the district and independent school district taxes and levies are collected by the sheriff, he shall account for and pay the same as treasurer of such district. When such taxes and levies due to a municipal corporation are collected by the sheriff he shall pay the same to the proper collecting officer, or treasurer, of such municipal corporation, or otherwise, as the council or other proper authority thereof may direct.
WV Code § 11-6-20 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 11. Taxation|Article 6. Assessment of Public Service Businesses|§11-6-20. No Release of Taxes Assessed Against Such Corporations

Neither the county court of any county, nor any Board of Education, nor the municipal authorities of any incorporated town, shall have jurisdiction, power or authority, by compromise or otherwise, to remit or release any portion of the taxes so assessed upon the property of any such owner or operator, and when such taxes or levies are certified to the sheriff of any county for collection, as aforesaid, it shall be his duty to collect the whole thereof, regardless of any order or direction of any such county court, Board of Education or municipal authority to the contrary; and, if he fail to do so, he and his sureties in his official bond shall, unless he be restrained or prohibited from so doing by legal process from some court having jurisdiction to issue the same, be liable thereon for such taxes and levies he may so fail to collect, if he could have collected the same by the use of due diligence. Any member of the county court or Board of Education, or of the council of a municipal corporation, who shall vote to remit or release any part of the taxes, so assessed on the property of any such owner or operator, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, fined $500, and shall be removed from his office by the court by which the judgment of such fine is rendered, in addition to such fine.
WV Code § 11-6-21 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 11. Taxation|Article 6. Assessment of Public Service Businesses|§11-6-21. Accounting for Levies Against Public Service Corporations

When such taxes and levies are paid into the treasury, as herein provided, the Auditor shall account to the sheriff of each of the counties, to which any sum so paid in for county levies belongs, for the amount due such county, and may arrange the same with such sheriff in any settlement for state taxes in such a way as may be most convenient; and the sheriff shall account to the county court of his county for the amount so received by him in the same manner as for other county levies. The amount so paid for each district and independent school district shall be added to the distributable share of the school fund payable to such district, and shall be paid upon the requisition of the county superintendent of free schools in like manner as other school moneys are paid.
WV Code § 11-6-22 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 11. Taxation|Article 6. Assessment of Public Service Businesses|§11-6-22. Certification by Auditor of Amount Chargeable to Sheriff From Levies Against Public Service Corporations; Payment of Amount Due Municipality

The Auditor shall certify to the county court and the county superintendent of schools of every such county, on or before February 1 in each year, the respective amounts with which the sheriff thereof is chargeable on account of the various levies upon the property of such owner or operator. The amount so paid in for each municipal corporation shall, as soon as received by the Auditor, be paid over to the sheriff, or the treasurer of such municipal corporation, or to such other officer of the municipality as the council may designate, and the Auditor shall report such payment to the council. But the failure of the clerk of any county court, or the secretary of any Board of Education, or the proper officer of any municipal corporation, to certify the levies to the Auditor within the time herein prescribed shall not invalidate or prevent the assessment required by this article, but the Auditor shall make the assessment and proceed to collect or certify the same to the sheriff as soon as practicable after he shall have obtained the information necessary to make such assessment.
WV Code § 11-6-24 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 11. Taxation|Article 6. Assessment of Public Service Businesses|§11-6-24. Assessment of Buildings and Real Estate of Public Service Corporations

All buildings and real estate owned or held by such owner or operator, and used or occupied for any purpose immediately connected with the property, shall be included in such assessment by the board of public works; but all real estate owned or held by any such owner or operator and not used or occupied for purposes immediately connected with the property, shall be assessed as otherwise provided in this chapter.
WV Code § 11-6-25 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 11. Taxation|Article 6. Assessment of Public Service Businesses|§11-6-25. Exception

Notwithstanding the provisions of sections one, nine, eleven, eighteen, twenty-two and twenty-three of this article, the provisions of this article as of January 1, 1961, shall govern the assessment of public service corporations for the assessment year beginning December 31, 1960.
WV Code § 11-6-26 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 11. Taxation|Article 6. Assessment of Public Service Businesses|§11-6-26. Operating Fund for Public Utilities Division in Auditor's Office

The Auditor shall establish a special operating fund in the state Treasury for the public utilities division in his or her office. The Auditor shall pay into the fund one and three eighths percent of the gross receipts of all moneys collected as provided for in this article. Up to one percent of the gross receipts shall be transferred from the operating fund to the tax loss restoration fund created in section twenty-seven of this article. From the operating fund, the Auditor shall reimburse the Tax Division for the actual operating expenses incurred in the performance of its duties required by this article not to exceed fifty percent of the fund balance after annual transfers to the tax loss restoration fund. Any moneys remaining in the special operating fund after annual transfers to the tax loss restoration fund shall be used by the Tax Division and the Auditor for funding the operation of their offices. On July 31 in each fiscal year, if the balance in the operating fund exceeds one percent of gross revenues plus $50,000, the excess shall be withdrawn from the special fund and deposited in the General Fund of the state.
WV Code § 11-6-27 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 11. Taxation|Article 6. Assessment of Public Service Businesses|§11-6-27. Public Utilities Tax Loss Restoration Fund

The Auditor shall establish a special revenue fund in the state Treasury entitled the "Public Utilities Tax Loss Restoration Fund". The Auditor shall pay into the fund up to one percent of the gross receipts deposited in the public utilities operating fund created in section twenty-six of this article and up to one percent of the gross receipts deposited in the operating fund of the interstate commerce division created in section seventeen, article six-g of this chapter. The proceeds of the tax loss restoration fund shall be distributed quarterly on a proportional basis to counties, districts and municipalities that have lost assessed value from the prior year's assessment and the method of distribution is based upon the county, district or municipality's percentage loss compared to the total loss of all counties, districts and municipalities that have lost assessed value from the prior year's assessment: Provided, That the calculation to the adjustments shall exclude loss in tax revenue attributed to the school current levy, as set forth in section six-c, article eight, chapter eleven of this code: Provided, however, That the proceeds received by any county, district or municipality shall not be greater than the loss of tax revenue caused by the decrease in assessed value.
WV Code § 11-6A-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 11. Taxation|Article 6A. Pollution Control Facilities Tax Treatment|§11-6A-1. Declaration of Policy

It is declared to be the public policy of the State of West Virginia to maintain reasonable standards of purity and quality of the water of the state and a reasonable degree of purity of the air resources of the state. In the exercise of the police power of the state to protect the environment and promote the public health, safety and general welfare, the Legislature has enacted the Water Pollution Control Act as article eleven, chapter twenty-two of this code and the Air Pollution Control Act as article five, chapter twenty-two thereof. It is recognized and declared by the Legislature that pollution control facilities, as hereinafter defined, are required for the protection and benefit of the environment and the general welfare of the people, are nonproductive, do not add to the economic value of a business enterprise and do not have a market value after installation in excess of salvage value.
WV Code § 11-6A-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 11. Taxation|Article 6A. Pollution Control Facilities Tax Treatment|§11-6A-2. Definition

As used in this article, "pollution control facility" means any personal property designed, constructed or installed primarily for the purpose of abating or reducing water or air pollution or contamination by removing, altering, disposing, treating, storing or dispersing the concentration of pollutants, contaminants, wastes or heat in compliance with air or water quality or effluent standards prescribed by or promulgated under the laws of this state or the United States, the design, construction and installation of which personal property was approved as a pollution control facility by either the office of water resources or the office of air quality, both of the Division of Environmental Protection, as the case may be.
WV Code § 11-6A-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 11. Taxation|Article 6A. Pollution Control Facilities Tax Treatment|§11-6A-3. Tax Treatment of Pollution Control Facilities

The value of a pollution control facility first placed in operation subsequent to July 1, 1973, shall, for the purpose of ad valorem property taxation under this chapter, be deemed to be its salvage value, that is to say, the price for which such facility would sell in place if voluntarily offered for sale by the owner thereof.
WV Code § 11-6A-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 11. Taxation|Article 6A. Pollution Control Facilities Tax Treatment|§11-6A-4. Regulations

The State Tax Commissioner shall have the power and authority to promulgate regulations for the administration of this article. Such regulations may provide, among other things, for the identification and certification of pollution control facilities, the determination of the date upon which such facilities were first placed in operation, the determination of whether such facilities are real or personal property, a method for the allocation or separation of values where the pollution control facility produces a profitable by-product or where a part of such facility is required for the operation of the business without regard to the requirements of state or federal air or water quality standards and such other matters as may be related to the administration of this article.
WV Code § 11-6A-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 11. Taxation|Article 6A. Pollution Control Facilities Tax Treatment|§11-6A-5. Coal Waste Disposal Power Projects

(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this article, a coal waste disposal power project designed, constructed or installed to reclaim, burn and dispose of coal wastes in compliance with applicable air and water quality standards and which meets the criteria for financing under section twenty-one, article two-c, chapter thirteen of this code shall, for purposes of section three of this article, be subject to the provisions of this section.(b) All items of personal property installed at a coal waste disposal power project shall be deemed a pollution control facility for purposes of this article, subject to an allocation of value as contemplated by section four of this article, as provided by this subsection. In allocating value, the Tax Commissioner shall accord salvage valuation to a portion of the total personal property at the project. The portion shall be equal to the ratio of tons of West Virginia coal waste burned and disposed of at the project to the total tons of coal and coal waste burned and disposed at the project during the previous calendar year: Provided, That with respect to a project placed in service prior to the effective date of this section at which project such ratio for the year ended the December 31, 1994, was less than seventy percent, the Tax Commissioner shall award salvage valuation to sixty-three percent of the total personal property at the project for tax years after the effective date of this section, notwithstanding the actual ratio for any calendar year. The remaining portion of the personal property at the project, but in no event less than twenty-five percent of that total, shall be valued without regard to this article: Provided, however, That the facility shall not qualify as a pollution control facility under this subsection if it burns coal, coal waste or fuel waste from outside the State of West Virginia after the effective date of this section.This provisions of this section are not intended to be applied retroactively.
WV Code § 11-6A-5a (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 11. Taxation|Article 6A. Pollution Control Facilities Tax Treatment|§11-6A-5a. Wind Power Projects

(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this article, a power project designed, constructed or installed to convert wind into electrical energy shall be subject to the provisions of this section.(b) Each wind turbine installed at a wind power project and each tower upon which the turbine is affixed shall be considered to be personal property that is a pollution control facility for purposes of this article and, subject to an allocation of the value of project property determined by the Tax Commissioner in accordance with this section, all of the value associated with the wind turbine and tower shall be accorded salvage valuation: Provided, That the portion of the total value of the facility assigned salvage value in accordance with this section shall, on and after July 1, 2007, be no greater than seventy-nine percent of the total value of the facility. All personal property at a wind power project other than a wind turbine and tower shall not be accorded salvage valuation and shall not be considered to be personal property that is a pollution control facility. For purposes of this section, "wind turbine and tower" is limited to: The rotor, consisting of the blades and the supporting hub; the drive train, which includes the remaining rotating parts such as the shafts, gearbox, coupling, a mechanical brake and the generator; the nacelle and main frame, including the wind turbine housing, bedplate and the yaw system; the turbine transformer; the machine controls; the tower; and the tower foundation.
WV Code § 11-6B-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 11. Taxation|Article 6B. Homestead Property Tax Exemption|§11-6B-1. Purpose

This article is enacted to implement the amendment to article X, section one-b of the Constitution increasing the ad valorem property tax homestead exemption, which was ratified by the people at the general election held on November 4, 1980.
WV Code § 11-6B-5 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 11. Taxation|Article 6B. Homestead Property Tax Exemption|§11-6B-5. Determination; Notice of Denial of Claim or Exemption

(a) The assessor shall, as soon as practicable after a claim for exemption is filed, review that claim and either approve or deny it. If the exemption is denied, the assessor shall promptly, but not later than January 1, serve the claimant with written notice explaining why the exemption was denied and furnish a form for filing with the county commission should the claimant desire to take an appeal. The notice required or authorized by this section shall be served on the claimant or his or her authorized representative either by personal service or by certified mail.(b) In the event that the assessor shall have information sufficient to form a reasonable belief that a claimant, after having been originally granted an exemption, is not eligible for said exemption, he or she shall deny the exemption on the next assessment date and shall promptly, but no later than January 1, serve the claimant with written notice explaining the reasons for the denial and furnish a form for filing with the county commission should the claimant desire to take an appeal.
WV Code § 11-6B-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 11. Taxation|Article 6B. Homestead Property Tax Exemption|§11-6B-6. Appeals Procedure

(a) Notice of appeal; thirty days. -- Any claimant aggrieved by the denial of his or her claim for exemption or the subsequent denial of his or her exemption may appeal to the county commission within thirty days after receipt of written notice explaining why the exemption was denied.(b) Review; determination; appeal. -- The county commission shall complete its review and issue its determination as soon as practicable after receipt of the notice of appeal, but in no event later than the twenty-eighth day of February of the tax year for which the exemption is first applied. In conducting its review, the county commission may hold a hearing on the claim. The assessor or the claimant may apply to the circuit court of the county for review of the determination of the county commission in the same manner as is provided for appeals from the county commission in section twenty-five, article three of this chapter.
WV Code § 11-6B-7 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 11. Taxation|Article 6B. Homestead Property Tax Exemption|§11-6B-7. Property Tax Books

(a) Property book entry. -- The exemption of the first $20,000 of assessed value shall be shown on the property books as a deduction from the total assessed value of the homestead.(b) Levy; statement to homestead owner. -- When the $20,000 exemption is greater than the total assessed value of the eligible homestead, no taxes shall be levied. The sheriff shall issue a statement to the owner showing that no taxes are due.
WV Code § 11-6B-9 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 11. Taxation|Article 6B. Homestead Property Tax Exemption|§11-6B-9. Forms, Instructions and Regulations

The Tax Commissioner shall prescribe and supply all necessary instructions and forms for administration of this article. Additionally, the Tax Commissioner may make all necessary rules and regulations for this article as provided in the state administrative procedure act in chapter twenty-nine-a of this code.