§1-5-5. Severability
If any provision of this article or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this article, and to this end the provisions of this article are declared to be severable.
§1-6-1. Purchasing Requirements
Any United States flag or flag of the State of West Virginia purchased with state funds must be manufactured in the United States.
§1-7-1. Legislative Purpose
The purpose of this article is to protect an individuals constitutional right to privately associate with advocacy groups that represent his or her beliefs. As the Supreme Court of the United States held in NAACP v. Alabama ex rel. Patterson, 357 U.S. 449 (1958), compelled disclosure of an advocacy groups donor or membership lists, where […]
§1-7-2. Definitions
For the purposes of this article: (1) “Donor or membership information” means any record which identifies an individuals membership in, or support of, any tax-exempt entity under 26 U.S.C. 501(c), including information that does not directly identify the individual but which, in combination with other information, would allow a reasonable person to identify the individual. […]
§1-7-3. Protecting Privacy of Association
(a) Except as otherwise provided in chapter 3 of this code, chapter 6B of this code, or subsection (e) of this section, a public agency may not require any tax-exempt organization under 26 U.S.C. 501(c) to provide the agency with donor or membership information: Provided, That where the public agency nevertheless obtains donor or membership […]
§1-7-4. Civil Remedies
(a) An individual may bring a civil action to enjoin any violation of this article and to recover actual damages incurred by him or her as a result of the violation. (b) If the plaintiff prevails in a civil action pursuant to this section, he or she is entitled to be reimbursed by the state […]
§1-5-3. Acquisition and Disposition of Real Property; Approval by Board of Public Works; Conveyances
Any public body is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire by purchase, transfer or exchange any real property owned by any other public body, and any public body is hereby authorized and empowered to dispose of by sale, transfer or exchange to or with any other public body any real property owned by it, any […]
§1-5-4. Repeal
All acts or parts of acts which are inconsistent with the provisions of this article are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.
§1-3-10. Transfer of Proceedings Pending Before a Justice
Any proceeding pending before a justice of an old county at the time the act creating a new county becomes effective, which, if brought after that time, would be required by law to be brought before a justice of the new county, shall be transferred, together with the papers and a transcript of the record, […]
§1-3-11. Jurisdiction of Old Officers to Continue Until New Officers Appointed
The sheriffs and other officers of the counties from which a new county is formed shall, until the sheriff and other officers of the new county are appointed in the manner provided by law for the filling of vacancies in such offices, continue to have and exercise all the jurisdiction, power and authority which they […]