§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 […]
§8-12-23. Limitations on Municipalities, Political Subdivisions, and Local Governing Bodies Authority Over Energy Usage and Development
(a) As used in this section: “Energy source” means the method of generation, or the fuel source, used to provide or supply utility service to a customer. The term includes any nonrenewable or renewable energy source. “Governing body” shall mean the mayor and council together, the council, the board of directors, the commission, or other […]
§8-12-24. Dedication to or Naming Municipal Property for Office Holder Prohibited
Notwithstanding any provision of this code to the contrary, no municipalities or governing bodies of municipalities may cause or permit to be caused the dedication or naming of any municipal owned building or public structure for a public official who is holding office at the time of the proposed dedication or naming.
§8-12-25. Authorizing Certain Municipalities to Create a Pension Funding Program
In addition to all other powers and duties conferred by law upon municipalities, Class I, Class II and Class III municipalities are empowered and authorized to create pension funding programs as defined in 8-33-4a of this code.
§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 […]
§8-12-16. Ordinances Regulating the Repair, Alteration, Improvement, Closing, Demolition, etc., of Structures, Dwellings, or Buildings That Are Unsafe, Unsanitary, Dangerous, or Detrimental to the Public Safety or Welfare; Procedures
(a) For the purposes of this section: (1) “Code enforcement agency” means either a code enforcement department as defined by 87 CSR 7-2, as may be amended, or an enforcement agency as permitted by subsection (c) of this section.