§1-3-7. Filing Plat of New County After Its Creation; Change of Boundaries
If the proposed new county be created with the boundaries specified in the plat and certificate of survey mentioned in section four of this article, a copy of such plat and certificate showing the courses and distances of the boundary line of such new county, and the streams and other natural objects or points referred […]
§1-3-8. Collection of and Accounting for Public Funds; Officers' Fees; Execution of Process
All taxes and levies assessed or laid in any county from which a new county is formed, before the time when the act creating such new county becomes effective, shall be collected, accounted for and paid; and all officers' fees in the hands of any sheriff or other officer at that time shall be accounted […]
§1-3-9. Jurisdiction of Courts; Transfer of Cases
The courts which, at the time of the passage of the act creating a new county, had jurisdiction over the counties from which it is formed shall retain jurisdiction over all actions, suits and proceedings therein pending at the passage of the act, and shall try and determine the same, and award execution and other […]
§1-2-4. Severability of Provisions of Article
If section one, two or three of this article or any part of any one or more of said sections is declared invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining sections or provisions of this article or the article in its entirety.
§1-3-1. Notice of Intention to Create New County
When it is intended to apply to the Legislature for the passage of an act to create a new county, a notice of such intention shall be published 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 […]
§1-3-2. Survey and Census; Area and Population
The county court of each of the counties out of which the new county is proposed to be formed, at its first session after the notice mentioned in the next preceding section has been published, as required by said section, shall order a survey of the whole county, and of that portion thereof proposed to […]
§1-3-3. Submission of Question of Creation of New County to Voters; Copies of Surveys, Census and Declaration of Result of Election
If it appear, by such surveys and census, that there are within the limits of the proposed new county at least four hundred square miles of territory and at least six thousand population, and that no county is thereby reduced below four hundred square miles of territory or below six thousand population, and that no […]
§1-3-4. Plat of New County
From the plats showing the portion of each county to be included in the proposed new county, mentioned in section two of this article, a plat of the proposed new county shall be prepared under the joint supervision of the surveyors who made the plats of such portions, which plat shall bear the joint certificate […]
§1-1-1. Counties Comprising State of West Virginia
The state of West Virginia includes all the territory formerly belonging to the state of Virginia and now comprising the following counties, to wit: Barbour, Berkeley, Boone, Braxton, Brooke, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge, Fayette, Gilmer, Grant, Greenbrier, Hampshire, Hancock, Hardy, Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson, Kanawha, Lewis, Lincoln, Logan, Marion, Marshall, Mason, McDowell, Mercer, Mineral, Mingo, Monongalia, […]
§1-1-2. Jurisdiction Over Rivers
The jurisdiction of this state also extends over all the rivers which are boundary lines between this and any other state, to the opposite shore, where there is no statute or compact to the contrary.