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2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 27A. Intergovernmental Relations -- Alternative Fuel Vehicles › §8-27A-1. Definitions

The following terms, whenever used or referred to in this article, shall have the following meanings unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:
(a) "Alternative fuels" include compressed natural gas, liquified natural gas, liquified petroleum gas, methanol, ethanol, fuel mixtures containing eighty-five percent or more by volume of methanol, ethanol and other alcohols with gasoline or other fuels, coal-derived liquid fuels and electricity (including electricity from solar energy).
(b) "Alternative fuel vehicle" means a motor vehicle that operates solely on one alternative fuel, a motor vehicle that is capable of operating on one or more alternative fuels or a motor vehicle that is capable of operating on an alternative fuel and is capable of operating on gasoline or diesel fuel.
(c) "Fleet" means fifteen or more motor vehicles that are centrally fueled or capable of being centrally fueled and are owned, operated, leased or otherwise controlled by or assigned to an agency of a political subdivision.
(d) "Political subdivision" means a county, municipality and any other unit of local government authorized by law to perform governmental functions, but does not include school boards or school districts.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 27A. Intergovernmental Relations -- Alternative Fuel Vehicles › §8-27A-3. Prohibition of Subsidies or Incentive Payments

Except as provided by section three-d, article thirteen-d, chapter eleven of this code, a political subdivision shall not enter into any program providing subsidies or incentive payments for the production of compressed natural gas, liquified natural gas, liquified petroleum gas, methanol, ethanol or coal-derived liquid fuels.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 28. Intergovernmental Relations -- Airports and Avigation › §8-28-2. Establishment, Lease and Operation of Airports by Municipalities and Counties; Jurisdiction of County Court

Any municipality or county may acquire, establish, construct, lease, equip, improve, maintain and operate for such municipality or county an airport for the use of aircraft, and may acquire or lease for such purpose real property within or without or partly within and partly without the corporate limits of such municipality, or within or without or partly within and partly without such county, or may set apart and use for such purpose real property owned by the municipality or county, which is not needed for any other public use, however such real property was acquired. Any county court now owning or leasing or hereafter acquiring or leasing any real property without or partly without the limits of its county for the purpose of acquiring, establishing, constructing, improving, maintaining and operating an airport, shall have the same and all jurisdiction over such property, its maintenance and operation, as it has with respect to real property owned or leased and operated by it for airport purposes within the limits of its own county.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 28. Intergovernmental Relations -- Airports and Avigation › §8-28-3. Acquisition of Property for Airport; Payment Therefor

Real property necessary for such airport may be acquired by gift, or by purchase if such municipality or county is able to agree with the owners of such real property on the terms thereof, and otherwise by condemnation, in the manner provided by law under which such municipality or county is authorized to acquire real property for public use. The purchase price or award for any property acquired for airport purposes may be paid by appropriation of moneys available therefor or wholly or partly from the proceeds of sale of the bonds of such municipality or county, as the governing body or county court shall determine, subject, however, to the general provisions of law for the issuance and sale of bonds of municipalities and counties for public purposes generally.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 28. Intergovernmental Relations -- Airports and Avigation › §8-28-4. Construction, Maintenance and Operation of Airport; Expenses; Rules and Regulations and Fees

The governing body or county court of such municipality or county may direct or employ or vest jurisdiction in any appropriate officer, board or body of such municipality or county to locate, acquire, establish, construct, lease, equip, improve, maintain and operate such airport for such municipality or county, but the site so located and the acquisition, establishment, construction, leasing, equipment, improvement, maintenance and operation of such airport shall be subject to the approval of such governing body or county court, as the case may be. The expense of the acquisition, establishment, construction, leasing, equipment, improvement, maintenance and operation shall be a municipal or county charge, as the case may be.
The governing body or county court may adopt rules and regulations and establish fees or charges for the use of such airport, or may authorize the officer, board or body of such municipality or county having jurisdiction to adopt such rules and regulations and establish such fees and charges, subject, however, to the approval of such governing body or county court before they shall take effect.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 28. Intergovernmental Relations -- Airports and Avigation › §8-28-5. Rules and Regulations to Control Vehicular and Pedestrian Traffic Within Quarter Mile of Airport; Violation of Rule and Regulation a Misdemeanor; Penalty

(a) The governing body or county court is hereby empowered and authorized to adopt and promulgate rules and regulations to:
(1) Control the movement and disposition of vehicular and pedestrian traffic within 1/4 mile of any building or installation of any airport owned or operated or owned and operated by any such municipality or county court;
(2) Regulate and control vehicular parking within such areas by the installation of parking meters or by other methods; and
(3) Impose reasonable charges for the use of the parking space so metered or otherwise allocated, so as to provide maximum opportunity for the public use thereof.
(b) Violation of any such rule and regulation shall constitute a misdemeanor and, the offender, upon conviction in the manner provided by law, may be fined not less than $10 nor more than $30 for each such violation.
(c) Magistrates shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the circuit courts and with statutory courts of record having criminal jurisdiction for the trial of offenses under this section.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 28. Intergovernmental Relations -- Airports and Avigation › §8-28-6. Airports Maintained Jointly; Abandonment and Sale Thereof; Suits Concerning Disposition, etc., of Airport

§8-28-6. Airports maintained jointly; abandonment and sale thereof; suits concerning disposition, etc., of airport.
One or more municipalities or counties or both may join with another or other municipalities or counties or both for the purpose of acquiring, establishing, constructing, leasing, equipping, improving, maintaining and operating an airport. Any such airport may be located at such point as the governing bodies and county courts of the municipalities and counties joining therein may agree upon, and such municipalities and counties may raise, by levy or otherwise as provided in this article, funds for the purpose of acquiring, establishing, constructing, leasing, equipping, improving, maintaining and operating any such airport, and the municipalities and counties shall agree upon the proportionate part of the cost and expense of such airport to be paid by each municipality and county joining therein. The provisions of sections two, three, four, five, seven and eight of this article shall apply to any such joint airport, and as to section five, the rules and regulations authorized therein shall be jointly adopted and promulgated.
In case any such joint airport is abandoned and such airport is owned by such municipalities and counties, the same may be sold with the approval of the governing bodies and county courts of the municipalities and counties jointly owning same. The proceeds of such sale shall be distributed to the municipalities and counties in the proportion to which such municipalities and counties had contributed to the acquisition, establishment, construction, equipment, improvement, maintenance and operation of such airport. In case of a failure of the municipalities and counties to agree upon the disposition of such airport and the equipment thereat or connected therewith or used in its maintenance or operation, any one or more of the municipalities and counties interested therein may bring a suit in the circuit court of the county in which such airport or the major portion thereof is located, and upon a trial of the cause, held in the manner provided by law for other civil actions seeking equitable relief, the court shall make such decree or decrees with reference to the disposition of the property and distribution of the proceeds or other moneys involved as to the court may seem to the best interests of all the parties involved, and an appeal from any such decree or decrees to the Supreme Court of Appeals shall lie as in other civil actions.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 28. Intergovernmental Relations -- Airports and Avigation › §8-28-7. State and Political Subdivisions Empowered and Authorized to Lease Airports and Grounds to Others

§8-28-7. State and political subdivisions empowered and authorized to lease airports and grounds to others.
The state, acting through the aeronautics commission, or any municipality or county, owning, either severally or jointly with other governmental units, an airport and any grounds used or useful in connection therewith may severally or jointly lease the same to others, for use as an airport and for any other purposes incidental to and not inconsistent therewith, for a term not exceeding thirty years: Provided, That no lease shall be executed by such owner or owners of any such airport or grounds unless and until such owner or owners shall have given notice by publication of the following described notice as a Class II legal advertisement in compliance with the provisions of article three, chapter fifty-nine of this code, and the publication area for such publication shall be the state if it is the state which proposes to make such lease or the political subdivision or subdivisions involved if it is a political subdivision or subdivisions which propose to make such lease. The notice shall state its or their intent to lease said airport or grounds, shall accurately describe what is proposed to be leased, the purpose or purposes for which the same may be used and the terms of said lease, shall state the time and place for the public opening of proposals for such lease, and shall reserve the right to reject any and all proposals. Nothing herein contained, however, shall prevent such owner or owners of any such airport or grounds from granting or renting landing rights for airplanes, hangar space, gasoline storage space, handling facilities, ticket or general office space, or any other facilities or rights in connection with such airport or grounds, covering or affecting less than the whole thereof, without notice and upon such terms as such owner or owners may deem advisable. All income received by a municipality or county court under the terms of any such lease or grant shall be paid to the state sinking fund commission to retire the bonded indebtedness, if any, created for the acquisition, establishment, construction, equipment, improvement, maintenance and operation of such airport or grounds, and if there be no such outstanding bonded indebtedness, then such income shall be paid into the General Funds of such municipality or county.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 28. Intergovernmental Relations -- Airports and Avigation › §8-28-8. Levy for Airport; Funds for Its Maintenance and Operation

§8-28-8. Levy for airport; funds for its maintenance and operation.
The governing body of a municipality or the county court of a county to which this article is applicable may lay a levy, not to exceed 5¢ on each $100 of valuation, for a period not exceeding three years, and appropriate therefrom funds for the purpose of acquiring, establishing, constructing, equipping or improving an airport. Funds necessary for providing maintenance and operating expenses for such airport may be appropriated out of the General Funds of the municipality or county: Provided, That nothing contained herein shall in any way affect any rights, powers and privileges of any municipality or county court under any special act of the Legislature providing for the laying of levies or the expenditure of funds for acquiring, establishing, constructing, equipping, improving, maintaining or operating an airport.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 28. Intergovernmental Relations -- Airports and Avigation › §8-28-9. Construction, Maintenance and Operation of Airports by Municipalities of an Adjoining State; Acquisition of Property Therefor; Property Tax Exempt

AND AIRPORT LAND IN THIS STATE.
§8-28-9. Construction, maintenance and operation of airports by municipalities of an adjoining state; acquisition of property therefor; property tax exempt.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a municipality organized and existing under the laws of an adjoining state, the nearest corporate limits thereof being not more than ten miles distant from the nearest boundary of this state, may acquire or lease real property situate within this state, the nearest boundary of such real property being not greater than ten miles from the nearest corporate limits of such municipality of an adjoining state, for use in connection with the acquisition, establishment, construction, lease, equipment, improvement, maintenance or operation for such municipality of an adjoining state of an airport exclusively for nonprofit public use; and any such municipality shall have the right to acquire real property necessary for such airport by gift or by purchase, and otherwise by condemnation, and the use of real property in this state under the provisions hereof shall be deemed to be a public use for which private property may be taken or damaged, for just compensation. All property, real and personal, acquired, held and used in this state pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be public property and therefore exempt from taxation in the manner provided by section nine, article three, chapter eleven of this code.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 29. Intergovernmental Relations -- Regional Airports › §8-29-1. Airport Authorities Authorized; Definitions

(a) Any two or more municipalities, any two or more contiguous counties, or any county or two or more contiguous counties and one or more municipalities located therein or partly therein, of this state, are hereby authorized to create and establish one or more authorities for the purpose of acquiring, establishing, constructing, equipping, improving, financing, maintaining, and operating a regional airport or international airport and ancillary airports, as the case may be, for the use of aircraft:
Provided
, That no such municipality or county shall participate in such authority unless and until the governing body or county court so provides.
(b) As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings:
(1) "Abandoned aircraft" means either:
(A) An aircraft left in a wrecked, inoperative, or partially dismantled condition on an airport for 45 consecutive calendar days and without a contractual agreement in force between the owner or operator of the aircraft and the airport authority for use of the airport premises; or
(B) An aircraft that has remained in an idle state on an airport for 45 consecutive calendar days without a contractual agreement between the owner or operator of the aircraft and the airport authority for use of the airport premises;
(2) "Aircraft" has the meaning provided in 29-2A-1 of this code;
(3) "Airport" means any airport, heliport, helistop, vertiport, gliderport, seaplane base, ultralight flightpark, manned balloon launching facility, or other aircraft landing or takeoff area operated by an airport operator as that term is defined in 8-29B-2(3);
(4) "Ancillary airport" means any airport, heliport, helistop, vertiport, gliderport, seaplane base, ultralight flightpark, manned balloon launching facility, or other aircraft landing or takeoff area that is owned and operated or operated by agreement by another authority as defined in 8-29-1 of this code;
(5) "Authority" means a regional airport authority created pursuant to the provisions of this article;
(6) "Contiguous counties" means two or more counties which constitute a compact territorial unit within an unbroken boundary wherein one county touches at least one other county but does not require that each county touch all of the other counties so combining; and
(7) "Derelict aircraft" means any aircraft that is not in a flyable condition, does not have a current certificate of air worthiness issued by the federal aviation administration, and whose owner cannot produce satisfactory written documentation from a licensed third-party aircraft mechanic evidencing that they have been hired to actively and fully repair the aircraft to both an airworthy and properly registered condition within six calendar months from the date notice is given to the owner.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 29. Intergovernmental Relations -- Regional Airports › §8-29-3. Authorities Empowered and Authorized to Acquire, Operate, etc., Airports and Develop Industrial Parks; State Aeronautics Commission

Each authority is hereby empowered and authorized to acquire, establish, construct, equip, improve, finance, maintain, and operate an international airport, a regional airport, or other airport or landing field and appurtenant facilities so located to best serve the region in which they are located, including, but not limited to, industrial, research, and business parks. Each authority shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the state aeronautics commission to the same extent as a state or municipal airport.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 29. Intergovernmental Relations -- Regional Airports › §8-29-4. Management of Authority Vested in Members; Appointment and Terms of Members; Vote of Members; Valuation of Property Contributed to an Authority; Participation by Additional Municipalities or Counties Without State

The management and control of each authority, its property, operations, business and affairs shall be lodged in a board of not less than five nor more than twenty-one individuals who shall be known as members of the authority and who shall be appointed for terms of three years each by the municipalities and county courts contributing moneys or property to the authority. However, the first board shall be comprised of one member appointed by each participating municipality and one member appointed by each participating county court, and any such member shall serve a term of one year, beginning as of the date the authority is created. No more than three members shall serve from one county on the first board.
Each municipality or county shall have one vote for each $5,000 it has contributed to the authority in the form of moneys or property. When property is contributed, the contributing municipality or county court and the authority shall agree in writing at the time the contribution is made as to the fair market value of such property, which valuation shall determine the number of votes to be allocated to the municipality or county on the basis thereof. For the fiscal year during which any authority is formed, the number of votes to which any municipality or county shall be entitled shall be determined as of the time of formation of the authority and shall govern until the end of that fiscal year, even though additional moneys or property are contributed during that fiscal year. Thereafter, the number of votes shall be determined at the end of each fiscal year and such determination shall govern for the ensuing fiscal year, even though additional moneys or property are contributed during that fiscal year. Subsequent to its formation, any authority may permit any municipality or county without this state to participate in the affairs of the authority, to appoint members of the authority in the same manner, and to have such vote or votes beginning as of the next ensuing fiscal year, as prescribed by law with respect to the original participating municipalities or counties or any combination thereof.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 29. Intergovernmental Relations -- Regional Airports › §8-29-5. Substitution of Members

If any member of an authority die, or resign, or be removed, or for any other reason cease to be a member of the authority, the municipality or the county court (or other similar body in the case of an out-of-state participating county) which such member represented shall appoint another individual to fill the unexpired portion of the term of such member.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 29. Intergovernmental Relations -- Regional Airports › §8-29-7. Compensation of Members

No member of the board of an authority shall receive any compensation, whether in form of salary, per diem allowance or otherwise, for or in connection with his services as such member. Each member shall, however, be entitled to reimbursement by the authority for all reasonable and necessary expenses actually incurred in connection with the performance of his duties as such member.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 29. Intergovernmental Relations -- Regional Airports › §8-29-9. Rules and Regulations to Control Vehicular and Pedestrian Traffic Within Quarter Mile of Airport; Violation of Rule and Regulation a Misdemeanor; Penalty

(a) The airport authority or the county court of the county in which any such airport or the major portion thereof is located is hereby empowered and authorized, upon request of the authority, may adopt and promulgate rules and regulations to:
(1) Control the movement and disposition of vehicular and pedestrian traffic within 1/4 mile of any building or installation of any such airport;
(2) Regulate and control vehicular parking within such areas by the installation of parking meters or by other methods; and
(3) Impose reasonable charges for the use of the parking space so metered or otherwise allocated, so as to provide maximum opportunity for the public use thereof.
(b) Violation of any such rule and regulation shall constitute a misdemeanor and, the offender, upon conviction in the manner provided by law, may be fined not less than $10 nor more than $30 for each such violation.
(c) Magistrates shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the circuit courts and with statutory courts of record having criminal jurisdiction for the trial of offenses under this section.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 29. Intergovernmental Relations -- Regional Airports › §8-29-10. Indebtedness of Authorities

FROM TAXATION; DISPOSITION OF SURPLUSES.
§8-29-10. Indebtedness of authorities.
Each authority may incur any proper indebtedness and issue any obligations and give any security therefor which it may deem necessary and advisable in connection with carrying out its purposes as hereinbefore mentioned.
No indebtedness or obligation incurred by an authority shall give any right against any member of the governing body of any of said municipalities, or the county court (or other similar body in the case of an out-of-state participating county) of any of said counties, or any member of the board of the authority. No indebtedness of any nature of an authority shall constitute an indebtedness of any municipality or county or the governing body of any such municipality or the county court (or other similar body in the case of an out-of-state participating county) of any such county, or be a charge against any property of any municipality or county. The rights of creditors of an authority shall be solely against the authority as a corporate body and shall be satisfied only out of property held by it in its corporate capacity.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 29. Intergovernmental Relations -- Regional Airports › §8-29-11. Agreements in Connection With Obtaining Funds

Each authority may, in connection with obtaining moneys or property for its purposes, enter into any agreement with any person, including the federal government, or any department, agency or subdivision thereof, containing such provisions, covenants, terms and conditions as the authority may deem advisable.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 29. Intergovernmental Relations -- Regional Airports › §8-29-12. Authorities to Have Right of Eminent Domain

Whenever it shall be deemed necessary by an authority, in connection with the exercise of its powers herein conferred, to take or acquire any lands, structures or buildings or other rights, either in fee or as easements, for the purposes herein set forth, the authority may purchase the same directly or through its agents from the owner or owners thereof, or failing to agree with the owner or owners thereof, the authority may exercise the power of eminent domain in the manner provided for condemnation proceedings in Chapter 54 of this code, and such purposes are hereby declared to be public uses for which private property may be taken or damaged.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 29. Intergovernmental Relations -- Regional Airports › §8-29-13. Property, Bonds and Obligations of Authorities Exempt From Taxation

Each authority shall be exempt from the payment of any taxes or fees to the state or any subdivisions thereof or any municipalities or to any officer or employee of the state or of any subdivision thereof or of any municipality.
The property of each authority shall be exempt from all municipal and county taxes. Bonds, notes, debentures and other evidences of indebtedness of the authority are declared to be issued for a public purpose and to be public instrumentalities, and, together with interest thereon, shall be exempt from taxation.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 29. Intergovernmental Relations -- Regional Airports › §8-29-14. Authorities May Lease Facilities

Each authority may lease its airport and all or any part of the appurtenances and facilities therewith to any available lessee, subject to all Constitutional and statutory limitations with respect thereto, at such rental and upon such terms and conditions as the authority deems proper. The leases shall be subordinate to any mortgage or deed of trust executed by the authority. An authority may lease land, the original taking of which was necessary for airport purposes, for economic development purposes compatible with, but not necessarily associated with, airport activities.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 29. Intergovernmental Relations -- Regional Airports › §8-29-15. Disposition of Surplus of Authorities

If an authority should realize a surplus, whether from operating the airport or leasing it for operation, over and above the amount required for the equipping, improvement, maintenance and operation of the airport and for meeting all required payments on its obligations, it shall set aside such reserve for future equipping, improvements, maintenance, operations and contingencies as it shall deem proper and shall then apply the residue of such surplus, if any, to the payment of any recognized and established obligations not then due, and after all such recognized and established obligations have been paid off and discharged in full, the authority shall, at the end of each fiscal year, set aside the reserve for future equipping, improvements, maintenance, operations and contingencies, as aforesaid, and then pay the residue of such surplus, if any, to the municipalities and counties in direct proportion to their contribution of moneys and property.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 29. Intergovernmental Relations -- Regional Airports › §8-29-16. Contributions to Authorities; Funds and Accounts of Authorities

Contributions of moneys may be made to authorities from time to time by the participating municipalities and counties, and persons that shall desire to do so. All such moneys and all other moneys received by an authority shall be deposited in such banking institution or banking institutions as the authority may direct and shall be withdrawn therefrom in such manner as the authority may direct. Each authority shall keep strict account of all of its receipts and expenditures and shall each quarter make a quarterly report thereon to the municipalities and counties which have made contributions of moneys or property, and such report shall contain an itemized account of its receipts and disbursements during the preceding quarter. Such report shall be made within sixty days after the termination of the quarter. Within sixty days after the end of each fiscal year, each authority shall make an annual report containing a summary of its receipts and disbursements for the preceding fiscal year, and publish the same as a Class II-0 legal advertisement in compliance with the provisions of article three, chapter fifty- nine of this code, and the publication area for such publication shall be the municipalities and counties, as provided in section one of this article. The books, records and accounts of each authority shall be subject to audit and examination by the office of the State Tax Commissioner and by any other proper public official or body in the manner provided by law.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 29. Intergovernmental Relations -- Regional Airports › §8-29-17. Participation

(a) The municipalities and counties or any one or more of them participating therein, jointly or severally, may appoint members of the said authorities and to contribute to the cost of acquiring, establishing, constructing, equipping, improving, and maintaining and operating the said airports and appurtenant facilities.
(b) Any of the municipalities or counties as provided in section one of this article may convey or transfer to the authorities property of any kind heretofore acquired by the municipalities or counties for airport purposes.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 29. Intergovernmental Relations -- Regional Airports › §8-29-18. Dissolution of Authority; Disposition of Assets After Payment of Debts

COMPENSATION; CONSTRUCTION.
§8-29-18. Dissolution of authority; disposition of assets after payment of debts.
In the event full and adequate provision is made for the payment of all of the debts of an authority, the participating municipalities or counties or any combination thereof which have contributed at least sixty percent of the total value of all moneys and property (the value of which property is determined as specified in section four of this article) contributed to the authority by the participating municipalities and counties may by resolution provide for the dissolution of the authority and for (1) the conveyance of the real and tangible personal property contributed to it to those participating municipalities and counties which contributed the same, (2) equitable distribution among the contributing municipalities and counties of any real and tangible personal property purchased or condemned by the authority or of the proceeds of sale thereof, or the fair value thereof, and (3) the equitable distribution of all moneys on hand to the participating municipalities and counties in direct proportion to the contribution of moneys by them.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 29. Intergovernmental Relations -- Regional Airports › §8-29-20. Liberal Construction of Article

The purposes of this article are to provide for the acquisition, establishment, construction, equipping, improvement, financing, maintenance, and operation of airports in a prudent and economical manner, and this article shall be liberally construed as giving to any authority created and established hereunder full and complete power reasonably required to give effect to the purposes hereof. The provisions of this article are in addition to and not in derogation of any power granted to or vested in municipalities and county courts under any Constitutional, statutory, or charter provisions which may now or hereafter be in effect.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 29A. County Airport Authorities › §8-29A-4. Funds; Accounting; Reporting

All funds received by the authority from whatever source shall be deposited in such bank or banks as the authority may direct and shall be withdrawn therefrom in such manner as the authority may direct. The authority shall keep strict account of all its receipts and expenditures and shall each quarter make a quarterly report to the county commission containing an itemized account of its receipts and disbursements during the preceding quarter. Such report shall be made within sixty days after the termination of the quarter.
Within sixty days after the end of each fiscal year, the authority shall make an annual report containing an itemized statement of its receipts and disbursements for the preceding year, and such annual report shall be published as a Class II-0 legal advertisement in compliance with the provisions of article three, chapter fifty-nine of this code, and the publication area for such publication shall be the county. The books, records and accounts of the authority shall be subject to audit and examination by the office of the State Tax Commissioner of West Virginia and by any other proper public official or body in the manner provided by law.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 29A. County Airport Authorities › §8-29A-5. Full-Time Employees of the Authority to Be Public Employees

Any person who serves regularly as an employee, full time, on a salary basis, whose tenure is not restricted as to temporary or provisional appointment, in the service of, and whose compensation is payable in whole or in part by the authority, shall be deemed to be a public employee and shall be subject to any and all applicable provisions of law relating thereto, including, but not limited to, the workers' compensation act and the West Virginia public employees insurance act.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 29A. County Airport Authorities › §8-29A-6. Authority May Incur Indebtedness; County Not Liable for Indebtedness

The authority may incur any proper indebtedness and issue any obligations and give any security therefor which it may deem necessary or advisable in connection with carrying out its purposes. No statutory limitation with respect to the nature or amount of indebtedness which may be incurred by municipalities or other bodies shall apply to indebtedness of the authority. No indebtedness of any nature of the authority shall constitute an indebtedness of the county commission, nor of the county, or a charge against any property of the county. No obligation incurred by the authority shall give any right against any member of the county commission or any member of the board of the authority. The rights of creditors of the authority shall be solely against the authority as a corporate body and shall be satisfied only out of property held by it in its corporate capacity.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 29A. County Airport Authorities › §8-29A-7. Exemption From Taxes; Payment for Portion Used as Industrial Park

The authority shall be exempt from the payment of any taxes or fees to the state or any subdivisions thereof or any municipalities or to any officer or employee of the state or of any subdivision thereof or of any municipalities. The property of the authority shall be exempt from all local and municipal taxes. Bonds, notes, debentures and other evidence of indebtedness of the authority are declared to be issued for a public purpose and to be public instrumentalities, and, together with interest thereon, shall be exempt from taxes.
It shall be the duty of the county assessor on July 1, of each year to ascertain what portion of the real and personal property of the authority, if any, is devoted to use as an industrial park and to appraise such property as if taxable. The assessor shall likewise determine the tax which would be levied upon such property if it were taxable. On August 1, of the year following such determination and February 1 thereafter, the authority shall pay unto the sheriff of the county a sum of money equal to that which would have been due if the property were taxable, which sums shall be distributed by the sheriff as if such sums were tax receipts.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 29A. County Airport Authorities › §8-29A-8. County Commission Authorized to Convey Present Airport Properties and Facilities to the Authority

Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the county commission of a county is hereby authorized to convey to the authority the present airport property owned by the county, if any, situate in the county, together with all the appurtenances and facilities therewith, such conveyance to be without consideration or for such price and upon such terms and conditions as the county commission shall deem proper.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 29A. County Airport Authorities › §8-29A-9. Disposition of Surplus

If the authority should realize a surplus, whether from operating the airport or leasing it for operation, over and above the amount required for the maintenance, improvement and operation of the airport and for meeting all required payments on its obligations, it shall set aside such reserve for future operations, improvements and contingencies as it shall deem proper and shall then apply the residue of such surplus, if any, to the payment of any recognized and established obligations not then due; and after all such recognized and established obligations have been paid off and discharged in full, the authority shall, at the end of each fiscal year, set aside the reserve for future operations, improvements and contingencies, as aforesaid, and then pay the residue of such surplus, if any, to the county commission, to be used by the county commission for general county purposes.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 29A. County Airport Authorities › §8-29A-10. Procedure for Dissolution of Authority

The authority may at any time pay off and discharge in full all of its indebtedness, obligations and liabilities, convey the airport properties, appurtenances and facilities to the county commission and be dissolved. Before making such conveyance of its properties, the authority shall give notice of its intention to do so and of its intention to be dissolved, and said notice shall be published as a Class I-0 legal advertisement in compliance with the provisions of article three, chapter fifty-nine of this code, and the publication area for such publication shall be the county. Affidavits from the publishers of the newspapers showing such publication shall be filed with the county commission before the deed conveying said properties is delivered. Any funds remaining in the hands of the authority at the time of the conveyance of said properties shall be by the authority paid over to the county commission to be used by it for purposes in connection with said airport. Upon the payment of its indebtedness, obligations and liabilities, the publishing of the notices aforesaid, the conveyance of its properties, and the paying over to the county commission of any funds remaining in its hands, the authority shall cause a certificate showing its dissolution to be executed under its name and seal and to be recorded in the office of the clerk of the county commission and thereupon its dissolution shall be complete.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 29A. County Airport Authorities › §8-29A-11. Purpose of Article; Liberal Construction; Article Cumulative

It is the purpose of this article to provide for the acquisition, construction, improvement, extension, maintenance and operation of a public airport and related facilities in a prudent and economical manner, and this article shall be liberally construed as giving to the authority full and complete power reasonably required to give effect to the purposes hereof. The provisions of this article are in addition to and not in derogation of any power existing in the county commission of a county under any Constitutional or statutory provisions which it may now have, or may hereafter acquire.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 29B. Airport Security › §8-29B-1. Legislative Findings and Purpose

The Legislature hereby finds and declares that there is an ever increasing need to eliminate the highjacking of aircraft, air piracy and other criminal and terrorist activities involving air passengers, airport personnel, aircraft and airport property and facilities. This article is enacted in view of this finding and the purpose of this article is to facilitate the providing of airport security.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 29B. Airport Security › §8-29B-2. Definitions

As used in this article:
(1) "Aircraft" has the meaning provided in 29-2A-1 of this code.
(2) "Airport" means any area of land or water which is used, or intended for use, for the landing and takeoff of aircraft, as defined above, any appurtenant areas which are used, or intended for use, for airport buildings or other airport facilities or rights-of-way, together with all airport buildings and facilities located thereon as well as any heliport, helistop, vertiport, gliderport, seaplane base, ultralight flightpark, manned balloon launching facility, or other aircraft landing or takeoff area operated by an airport operator as that term is defined in 8-29B-2(3) of this code.
(3) "Airport operator" means a governing body, regional airport authority, or county airport authority, under 8-28-1
et seq
., 8-29-1
et seq
., or 8-29A-1
et seq
. of this code, or a board, commission, authority, or committee operating under any local act of the Legislature, charged with the operation and management of an airport.
(4) "Airport police officer" means any individual assigned, appointed, or designated by an airport operator, to serve as a police officer at an airport.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 29B. Airport Security › §8-29B-3. Rules and Regulations; Penalties

Each airport operator shall have plenary power and authority to manage and control the airport under its jurisdiction, to promulgate rules and regulations concerning the management and control of such airport, and to enforce any such rules and regulations so promulgated. Any rules and regulations promulgated shall be printed and posted in a conspicuous public place on the airport premises. The violation of any such rule or regulation shall constitute a misdemeanor and, any person convicted of any such violation shall be punished by a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $500 or confined in jail for a period not exceeding 30 days, or by both such fine and confined. Justices of the peace of the county shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the circuit court and other courts of record having criminal jurisdiction of any misdemeanor offenses arising under this article. Violation of any such rule or regulation which also constitutes the violation of any federal or state law or municipal ordinance may be prosecuted and punished as a violation of such federal or state law or municipal ordinance rather than under the provisions of this article. It shall be the duty of every airport operator in this state to promulgate all rules and regulations deemed necessary for airport security.
2023 West Virginia Code › Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations › Article 29B. Airport Security › §8-29B-6. Required Security Measures

In addition to any and all other security measures which may be required by an airport operator, and unless otherwise provided by rules and regulations promulgated by such airport operator, at least one airport police officer must be present prior to, at the point of, and throughout the final passenger screening process prior to the boarding of an aircraft at an airport (other than a charter or commuter flight), and such police officer shall be present continuously until all doors on such aircraft being boarded are closed and such aircraft has taxied away from the boarding area. An airport police officer shall have the same duty and responsibility in the event such aircraft returns to the boarding area prior to takeoff.