The West Virginia Legislature finds that outdoor recreation is an increasingly vital part of the states economy and that outdoor recreation participants spend billions of dollars annually in the state and support a significant number of local jobs. The Legislature further finds that well-managed areas for trail-oriented recreation in the state will increase outdoor recreational […]
Unless the context clearly requires a different meaning, the terms used in this article have the following meanings: (1) “Adjacent county” means a nonparticipating county that directly borders any participating county in a multicounty trail network authority;
(a) For the purposes of this article, three or more contiguous counties may, upon approval of the county commission of each county desiring to participate, form a multicounty trail network authority. An authority established pursuant to this section is a public corporation and a joint development entity existing for the purpose of facilitating the development […]
(a) The board is the governing body of an authority and the board shall exercise all the powers given the authority in this article. The county commission of each participating county shall appoint two members to the board, as follows: (1) Each participating county shall appoint one member who represents and is associated with a […]
(a) An authority shall contract for and obtain an annual financial audit to be conducted by a private accounting firm in compliance with generally accepted government auditing standards. When complete, the audit shall be transmitted to the board, the president of the county commission of each participating county, and the Legislative Auditor. The cost of […]
An authority, as a public corporation and joint development entity, may exercise all powers necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of this article, including, but not limited to, the power: (1) To acquire, own, hold, and dispose of property, real and personal, tangible and intangible;
(a) An authority may require recreational users to wear protective helmets or use safety equipment that the authority determines to be appropriate for the recreational activity in which the user is engaged. (b) Each trail user operating a bicycle or mountain bicycle shall obey all traffic laws, traffic-control devices, and signs within the recreational area, […]
(a) An owner of land used by an authority owes no duty of care to keep his or her land safe for entry or use by others for recreational purposes, or to give any warning of a dangerous or hazardous condition, use, structure, activity, or wild animal on such land to persons entering or going […]
(a) Purchasing and bidding procedures; criminal penalties. — (1) Whenever an authority proposes to purchase or contract for commodities or services reasonably anticipated to equal or exceed $25,000 in cost, the purchase or contract shall be based on competitive bidding. Where the purchase of particular commodities or services is reasonably anticipated to be less than […]
