§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 […]
§1-3-5. Certificates to Accompany Application to Legislature
Every application to the Legislature for the formation of a new county must be accompanied by duly certified copies of the surveys, plat of the proposed new county, census and order of the county court declaring the result of such election as aforesaid, together with satisfactory evidence that all the provisions of this article have […]
§1-3-6. Payment of Expenses
All the expenses attending the publication of the notices, the surveying, and the taking of the census, as required in sections one and two of this article, shall be paid by the parties applying for the proposed new county. The expenses incident to the election in each county shall be paid by it and the […]
§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 […]
§1-1-4. Execution of Process and Other Jurisdiction as to Land Acquired by United States
The state of West Virginia reserves the right to execute process, civil or criminal, within the limits of any lot or parcel of land heretofore or hereafter acquired by the United States as aforesaid, and such other jurisdiction and authority over the same as is not inconsistent with the jurisdiction ceded to the United States […]
§1-1-5. West Virginia Coordinate Systems; Definitions; Plane Coordinates, Limitations of Use; Conversion Factor for Meters to Feet; Official Geodetic Datum
(a) The following acronyms used throughout this section shall have the following meanings: (1) “FGDC” means the Federal Geographic Data Committee or its successors; (2) “NSRS” means “The National Spatial Reference System” or its successors;