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Code of West Virginia, 1931
Official Recodification - Enacted December 31, 1930 - Effective January 1, 1931
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7-10-4 Ch. 7 — COUNTY COURTS AND COUNTY OFFICERS Humane Officers Custody and Care of Animals Abandoned, Neglected or Cruelly Treated Such officers shall take charge of any animal found abandoned, neglected, or cruelly treated, and shall thereupon give notice thereof to the owner, if known, an… Proofed
7-10-5 Ch. 7 — COUNTY COURTS AND COUNTY OFFICERS Humane Officers Destruction of Animals Any such officer may lawfully destroy or cause to be destroyed any animal in his charge, when in the judgment of such humane officer, and by the written certifi… Proofed
8-1-1 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Application of Chapter to Municipal Corporations Definitions of Terms Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the terms “municipal corporation,” “municipality” and “town” shall include any incorporated city, town or village,… Proofed
8-1-2 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Application of Chapter to Municipal Corporations Application of Provisions of This Chapter Except as otherwise provided in this Code or by special charter, all municipal corporations in this State are subject to the provisions contained in this chapte… Proofed
8-2-1 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Creation, Alteration and Dissolution of Municipal Corporations Requirements for Incorporation; Territory; Population Any part of any district or districts not included within any incorporated municipality and containing a resident population of not less than one hundred person… Proofed
8-2-2 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Creation, Alteration and Dissolution of Municipal Corporations Survey and Map; Verification The persons intending to make application for the incorporation of such municipality shall cause an accurate survey and map of the territory intended to be embr… Proofed
8-2-3 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Creation, Alteration and Dissolution of Municipal Corporations Census; Verification Such persons shall also cause an accurate census to be taken of the resident population of such territory, as of some day not more than sixty days previous to t… Proofed
8-2-4 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Creation, Alteration and Dissolution of Municipal Corporations Public Examination of Survey, Map and Census Such survey, map and census, when completed and verified as aforesaid, shall be left at the residence or place of business, within such territory, of some perso… Proofed
8-2-5 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Creation, Alteration and Dissolution of Municipal Corporations Notice of Application for Charter The persons intending to make such application shall give notice that, on some day specified in such notice, they will apply by petition to the circuit court of… Proofed
8-2-6 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Creation, Alteration and Dissolution of Municipal Corporations Publication of Notice If there be a newspaper printed within such territory, such notice shall be published in such newspaper once in each week for three successive weeks previous to… Proofed
8-2-7 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Creation, Alteration and Dissolution of Municipal Corporations Election for Incorporation On the day named in such notice for the taking of the vote mentioned in the fifth section of this article, the qualified voters who have resided within the prop… Proofed
8-2-8 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Creation, Alteration and Dissolution of Municipal Corporations Certificate of Incorporation Upon the filing of such petition and certificate of the election aforesaid and upon satisfactory proof that all the provisions of the foregoing sections of this… Proofed
8-2-9 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Creation, Alteration and Dissolution of Municipal Corporations Amendment of Charters of Municipalities of Less Than Two Thousand Whenever it shall be desirable to amend the charter of any town in this State, containing a population of less than two thousand, it shall be lawful for any fiv… Proofed
8-2-10 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Creation, Alteration and Dissolution of Municipal Corporations Costs of Incorporation or Charter Amendments All reasonable costs incurred in procuring incorporation under this chapter shall be paid by the corporation. In amendment proceedings authorized by the prece… Proofed
8-2-11 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Creation, Alteration and Dissolution of Municipal Corporations Change of Corporate Boundary Any five or more freeholders residing in any municipal corporation, containing a population of less than two thousand, desiring to change the corporate limits t… Proofed
8-2-12 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Creation, Alteration and Dissolution of Municipal Corporations Council to Certify Change of Boundary; Order The council of such town shall enter the result of such election upon its minutes, and, when the change proposed is adopted, as provided in the preceding sectio… Proofed
8-2-13 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Creation, Alteration and Dissolution of Municipal Corporations Forfeiture of Charters; Dissolution of Municipal Corporations Any town heretofore incorporated under the provisions of this chapter or which shall hereafter be incorporated under the provisions of this chapter, and which h… Proofed
8-2-14 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Creation, Alteration and Dissolution of Municipal Corporations Voluntary Discontinuance of Charters Upon the petition of twenty-five per cent of the voters of any incorporated town containing not more than fifteen hundred inhabitants, the council thereof shall… Proofed
8-3-1 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Election, Appointment and Qualification of Officers First Election of Officers; Commissioners of Election At the time of ordering the certificate mentioned in section eight, article two of this chapter, the court shall appoint three legal voters residing within such… Proofed
8-3-2 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Election, Appointment and Qualification of Officers When First Election Held; Notice The first election for officers of such corporation shall be held within sixty days from the date of the certificate mentioned in section eight, article two of … Proofed
8-3-3 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Election, Appointment and Qualification of Officers Conducting First Election; Certificate of Election Such commissioners, or the persons acting as such, after taking the oath prescribed for commissioners of election by section eleven, article five, chapter three… Proofed
8-3-4 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Election, Appointment and Qualification of Officers Regular Elections After the first election of officers in such corporations all regular elections for officers shall be held biennially on the first Tuesday in June: Provided, Th… Proofed
8-3-5 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Election, Appointment and Qualification of Officers Tie Vote Whenever two or more persons shall receive an equal number of votes for the same office, if such number be the highest cast for such office, the persons under w… Proofed
8-3-6 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Election, Appointment and Qualification of Officers Contested Elections All contested elections shall be heard and decided by the council. Proofed
8-3-7 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Election, Appointment and Qualification of Officers Qualified Voters All persons who have been bona fide residents of the territory included in such town for sixty days next preceding a municipal election therein, and who are qua… Proofed
8-3-8 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Election, Appointment and Qualification of Officers Mayor, Recorder and Councilmen The municipal authorities of such town shall be a mayor, recorder and the councilmen, who together shall form the council. Where such town has not been divided … Proofed
8-3-9 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Election, Appointment and Qualification of Officers Eligibility of Mayor, Recorder and Councilmen The mayor, recorder and councilmen must be residents of such municipality, must be legal voters entitled to vote for members of its council, and for the year pr… Proofed
8-3-10 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Election, Appointment and Qualification of Officers Sergeant and Superintendent of Streets There shall be a municipal sergeant and a superintendent of roads, streets and alleys, appointed by the council, to perform the duties respectively as herein pr… Proofed
8-3-11 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Election, Appointment and Qualification of Officers Oaths of Officers Every person elected or appointed to an office in such corporation shall, within twenty days after his election or appointment and before he shall enter upon th… Proofed
8-3-12 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Election, Appointment and Qualification of Officers Terms of Officers The sergeant and superintendent of roads, streets and alleys shall continue in office during the pleasure of the council. Except as otherwise provided, the te… Proofed
8-3-13 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Election, Appointment and Qualification of Officers Vacancies in Office; How Filled When a vacancy shall occur from any cause in the office of mayor, recorder or in the council, the vacancy, until the next succeeding election and until the qual… Proofed
8-3-14 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Election, Appointment and Qualification of Officers Applicability of General Registration Law to Municipal Corporations The provisions of chapter three of this Code in regard to registration of voters shall not apply to municipal elections, but the council of any municipality may… Proofed
8-3-15 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Election, Appointment and Qualification of Officers Applicability of General Primary Election Law to Municipal Elections Except as otherwise provided, municipal executive committees shall exercise similar functions and be governed by the same laws in regard to primary elections as… Proofed
8-3-16 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Election, Appointment and Qualification of Officers Power of Municipality to Prescribe Method of Nominating Its Officers and Holding Elections Any municipality, not having a special charter, may prescribe the method of nominating its officers and holding its elections, but such method shall not be inco… Proofed
8-4-1 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Powers, Duties and Allied Relations of Municipal Corporations, Councils Nature and Exercise of Corporate Powers Upon the creation of a municipal corporation, the inhabitants of the municipality, by the name of “The city (town or village) of............,” shall be a body p… Proofed
8-4-2 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Powers, Duties and Allied Relations of Municipal Corporations, Councils Compensation of Officers The mayor, recorder and superintendent of roads, streets and alleys of such corporation shall each receive compensation for his services, to be fixed by the cou… Proofed
8-4-3 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Powers, Duties and Allied Relations of Municipal Corporations, Councils Powers and Duties of Mayor The mayor shall be the chief executive officer of the town, when not otherwise provided by law, and shall take care that the orders, by-laws, ordinances, acts a… Proofed
8-4-4 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Powers, Duties and Allied Relations of Municipal Corporations, Councils Powers and Duties of Recorder It shall be the duty of the recorder to keep the journal of the proceedings of the council, and have charge of and preserve the records of the town. In the abse… Proofed
8-4-5 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Powers, Duties and Allied Relations of Municipal Corporations, Councils Powers and Duties of Sergeant and Policemen; Bond of Sergeant In addition to the powers and duties prescribed in section two, article seven of this chapter, the sergeant shall have all the powers, rights and privileges wit… Proofed
8-4-6 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Powers, Duties and Allied Relations of Municipal Corporations, Councils Council; Who to Preside; Quorum; Interested Councilmen Not to Vote The council shall be presided over at its meetings by the mayor, or, in his absence, by the recorder, or, in the absence of both mayor and recorder, by one of t… Proofed
8-4-7 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Powers, Duties and Allied Relations of Municipal Corporations, Councils Mayor and Recorder May Vote in Council; Tie Vote The mayor and recorder shall have votes as members of the council, and, in case of a tie, the presiding officer for the time being, unless he has previously vot… Proofed
8-4-8 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Powers, Duties and Allied Relations of Municipal Corporations, Councils Council to Keep Record The council shall cause to be kept, in a well-bound book, an accurate record of all of its proceedings, by-laws, acts, orders and resolutions, which shall be fu… Proofed
8-4-9 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Powers, Duties and Allied Relations of Municipal Corporations, Councils Council Minutes to be Read; Viva Voce Vote At each meeting of the council, the record of the proceedings of the last meeting shall be read, and corrected, if erroneous, and signed by the presiding office… Proofed
8-4-10 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Powers, Duties and Allied Relations of Municipal Corporations, Councils General Powers of Council; Extraterritorial Operation of Powers The council shall have plenary power and authority therein by ordinance or resolution as the case may require, (so far as such power or authority is not in conf… Proofed
8-4-11 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Powers, Duties and Allied Relations of Municipal Corporations, Councils Council May Require Residents to Work on Streets; Release by Payment; Tax to Repair Streets Every male resident of such town who is not under twenty-one or over fifty years of age, and who is not a pauper, shall, if required by the council thereof, wor… Proofed
8-4-12 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Powers, Duties and Allied Relations of Municipal Corporations, Councils Power to Condemn Real Estate The condemnation of real estate for roads, streets, alleys, drains and gutters in such corporation shall be as prescribed in chapter fifty-four of this Code, an… Proofed
8-4-13 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Powers, Duties and Allied Relations of Municipal Corporations, Councils Municipal License When State License is Required Whenever anything, for which a state license is required, is to be done within such town the council may, unless prohibited by law, require a municipal license … Proofed
8-4-14 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Powers, Duties and Allied Relations of Municipal Corporations, Councils Power of Council or County Court to Grant Franchises; Notice; Term of Franchise No franchise shall hereafter be granted by the county court of any county, or other tribunal acting in lieu thereof, or by the council of any town incorporated … Proofed
8-4-15 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Powers, Duties and Allied Relations of Municipal Corporations, Councils Compelling Compliance With Franchise Obligations; Forfeiture; Damages Where any individual, association or corporation has obtained or shall hereafter obtain any right, license, privilege or franchise to operate a street car line,… Proofed
8-4-16 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Powers, Duties and Allied Relations of Municipal Corporations, Councils License of Engineers In any town to which this chapter applies the council thereof may provide, by ordinance, for the examination, regulation and licensing of stationary engineers, … Proofed
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