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§8-12-22. Foreclosure Actions Involving Abandoned Properties

(a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Zombie Property Remediation Act of 2021. (b) No action may be brought pursuant to this section until the municipality has informed any and all mortgagees in writing and by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the mortgagee’s registered agent identified by the mortgagee […]

§8-12-17. Sale or Lease of Municipal Public Utility

NOTE: West Virginia Code 8-12-17 was amended by two bills passed during the 2020 Regular Session of the Legislature. When two acts of the Legislature amend the same section of the Code without express recognition in the bill of the action of the other bill, the Legislative Manager makes no determination as to the appropriate, […]

§8-12-18. Sale, Lease, or Disposition of Other Municipal Property

(a) Every municipality, municipal building commission created pursuant to §8-33-1 et seq. of this code, and municipal development authority created pursuant to §7-12-1 et seq. of this code is authorized to sell, lease as lessor, or dispose of any of its real or personal property or any interest therein or any part thereof (other than […]

§8-12-19. Extraterritorial Exercise of Powers and Authority

AND AUTHORITY. §8-12-19. Extraterritorial exercise of powers and authority. Wherever the powers and authority granted in this chapter cannot be reasonably and efficiently exercised by confining the exercise thereof within the corporate limits of the municipality, the powers and authority of the municipality shall extend beyond the corporate limits to the extent necessary to the […]

§8-12-20. Authorizing Municipalities to Enact Adopt-a-Street Programs

(a) In addition to all other powers and duties conferred by law upon municipalities, municipalities are empowered to enact municipality Adopt-A-Street programs. (b) The state Adopt-A-Highway Program was established in the late 1980s to improve the quality of the states environment by encouraging public involvement in the elimination of highway litter. That program is cosponsored […]

§8-12-21. Restriction on the Regulation of Trades, Occupations, and Professions

Except as expressly provided by this code, neither a municipality nor the governing body of any municipality may, by ordinance or otherwise, enact or enforce any law, ordinance, regulation, or rule, requiring the licensing, certification, or registration of any person or business in order to practice or conduct a trade, occupation, or profession within the […]