§31-18E-1. Short Title
This article may be known and cited as the West Virginia Land Reuse Agency Authorization Act.
§31-18E-10. Disposition of Property
(a) Public access to inventory. — A land reuse agency shall maintain and make available for public review and inspection an inventory of real property held by the land reuse agency. (b) Power. — A land reuse agency may convey, exchange, sell, transfer, lease, grant or mortgage interests in real property of the land reuse […]
§31-18E-11. Financing of Land Reuse Agency Operations
(a) General rule. — A land reuse agency may receive funding through grants and loans from: (1) The federal government;
§31-18E-12. Borrowing and Issuance of Bonds
(a) Authority. — (1) A land reuse agency may issue a bond for any of its corporate purposes. (2) The principal and interest of a bond is payable from the land reuse agency's general revenue.
§31-18E-13. Public Records and Public Access
(a) Public records. — A board shall keep minutes and a record of its proceedings. (b) Public access. — A land reuse agency is subject to article nine-a, chapter six of this code, relating to open meetings, and chapter twenty-nine-b of this code, relating to public records.
§31-18E-14. Dissolution of Land Reuse Agency
(a) General rule. — A land reuse agency may be dissolved as a public body corporate and politic upon compliance with all of the following: (1) Sixty calendar days advance written notice of consideration of a resolution to request dissolution must be:
§31-18E-15. Conflicts of Interest
(a) Ethics Act. — The acts and decisions of members of a board and of employees of a land reuse agency are subject to chapter six-b of this code. (b) Supplemental rules and guidelines. — The board may adopt: (1) Supplemental rules addressing potential conflicts of interest; and
§31-18E-16. Expedited Quiet Title Proceedings
(a) Authorization. — (1) A land reuse agency may file an action in circuit court to quiet title to real property in which the land reuse agency has an interest. (2) A land reuse agency may join in a single complaint to quiet title to one or more parcels of real property.
§31-18E-17. Construction, Intent and Scope
This article shall be construed liberally to effectuate the legislative intent and the purposes as complete and independent authorization for the implementation of this article, and all powers granted shall be broadly interpreted to effectuate the intent and purposes and not as a limitation of powers.
§31-18E-18. Annual Audit and Report
(a) The land reuse agency shall annually, within one hundred twenty days after the end of the fiscal year, submit an audit of income and expenditures, together with a report of its activities for the preceding year, to the West Virginia Housing Development Fund. (b) A duplicate of the audit and the report shall be […]
§31-18E-2. Legislative Findings
The Legislature finds and declares that: (1) Strong communities are important to the social and economic vitality of this state. Whether urban, suburban or rural, many communities are struggling to cope with vacant, abandoned and tax-delinquent properties.
§31-18E-3. Definitions
As used in this article: (1) “Board” means the board of directors of a land reuse agency;
§31-18E-4. Creation and Existence
(a) Authority. — A land reuse jurisdiction may elect to create a land reuse agency by the adoption of an ordinance to create a binding legal obligation. The ordinance must specify the type of entity created and the following: (1) The name of the land reuse agency;
§31-18E-5. Board of Directors of a Land Reuse Agency
(a) Membership. — A board shall consist of an odd number of members and be not less than five members nor more than eleven members. Unless restricted by the actions or agreements specified in section four of this article and subject to the limits stated in this section, the size of the board may be […]
§31-18E-6. Staff of the Land Reuse Agency
(a) Employees. — A land reuse agency may employ or enter into a contract for an executive director, counsel and legal staff, technical experts and other individuals and may determine the qualifications and fix the compensation and benefits of those employees. (b) Contracts. — A land reuse agency may enter into a contract with a […]
§31-18E-7. Powers of the Land Reuse Agency
A land reuse agency is a public body, corporate and politic, exercising public and essential governmental functions, and having all the powers necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of this article, including but not limited to the following: (1) To adopt, amend and repeal bylaws for the regulation of […]
§31-18E-8. Eminent Domain
A land reuse agency does not possess the power of eminent domain. Any property obtained by the power of eminent domain after the effective date of this article may not be acquired by a land reuse agency by any means.
§31-18E-9. Acquisition of Property
(a) Title to be held in its name. A land reuse agency or municipal land bank shall hold in its own name all real property it acquires. (b) Tax exemption. (1) Except as set forth in subdivision (2) of this subsection, the real property of a land reuse agency or municipal land bank and its […]