West Virginia Legislature
Code of West Virginia, 1931
Official Recodification - Enacted December 31, 1930 - Effective January 1, 1931
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8-4-17 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Powers, Duties and Allied Relations of Municipal Corporations, Councils Infirmaries Towns having a population of not less than five thousand inhabitants shall have power to establish and maintain, either within or without the limits of the town… Proofed
8-4-18 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Powers, Duties and Allied Relations of Municipal Corporations, Councils Houses of Correction and Workhouses The council of any town of not less than five thousand inhabitants shall have power to establish and maintain, either within its limits or within the county in … Proofed
8-4-19 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Powers, Duties and Allied Relations of Municipal Corporations, Councils Police Matrons In each of the several towns of this State having a population of five thousand or more, as ascertained by the last census, the mayor thereof may appoint a repu… Proofed
8-4-20 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Powers, Duties and Allied Relations of Municipal Corporations, Councils Municipal Band; Tax Levy When ten per cent or more of the qualified voters of a municipal corporation, as shown by the last election of mayor of such municipality, shall have signed a p… Proofed
8-4-21 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Powers, Duties and Allied Relations of Municipal Corporations, Councils Sale or Lease of Municipal Public Utility In any case where a town shall own a water-works system, electric light plant or other public utility, and the council thereof shall deem it for the best intere… Proofed
8-4-22 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Powers, Duties and Allied Relations of Municipal Corporations, Councils Officers Not to be Personally Interested in Municipal Contracts; Penalty It shall be unlawful for any council or board of commissioners of any town, or any member thereof, or other officer or officers thereof, to be interested person… Proofed
8-4-23 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Powers, Duties and Allied Relations of Municipal Corporations, Councils Ordinances to Make Municipal Powers Effective; by Whom Judgment Rendered To carry into effect the powers conferred upon such town or its council, by this chapter or by any future act of the legislature of this State, the council shal… Proofed
8-4-24 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Powers, Duties and Allied Relations of Municipal Corporations, Councils Validity of Ordinances Delegating Discretion The fact that a municipal ordinance vests in the council or some other body or officer a discretion to do, or refuse to do, a given thing, shall not invalidate … Proofed
8-4-25 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Powers, Duties and Allied Relations of Municipal Corporations, Councils Municipal Officers to Aid in Enforcing Criminal Laws of State It is hereby made the duty of the mayor and the police of a municipality to aid in the enforcement of the criminal laws of the State within the municipality, in… Proofed
8-4-26 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Powers, Duties and Allied Relations of Municipal Corporations, Councils Appeals Under This Chapter Every person sentenced to imprisonment under this chapter or to the payment of a fine of ten dollars or more (and in no case shall a fine of less than ten dolla… Proofed
8-5-1 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Municipal Planning and Zoning Grant of Zoning Power For the purpose of promoting health, safety, morals, or the general welfare of the community, the legislative body of every municipal corporation is hereby empo… Proofed
8-5-2 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Municipal Planning and Zoning Districts For any or all of such purposes the local legislative body may divide the municipality into districts of such number, shape and area as may be deemed best suite… Proofed
8-5-3 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Municipal Planning and Zoning Purposes in View Such regulations shall be made in accordance with a comprehensive plan and designed to lessen congestion in the streets; to secure safety from fire, panic, and … Proofed
8-5-4 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Municipal Planning and Zoning Method of Procedure The legislative body of such municipality shall provide for the manner in which such regulations and restrictions and the boundaries of such districts shall be … Proofed
8-5-5 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Municipal Planning and Zoning Changes Such regulations, restrictions, and boundaries may from time to time be amended, supplemented, changed, modified, or repealed. In case, however, of a protest ag… Proofed
8-5-6 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Municipal Planning and Zoning Zoning Commission In order to avail itself of the zoning powers conferred by this article, such legislative body shall appoint a commission, consisting of freeholders of the muni… Proofed
8-5-7 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Municipal Planning and Zoning Board of Adjustment Such local legislative body may provide for the appointment of a board of adjustment, and in the regulations and restrictions adopted pursuant to the authority … Proofed
8-5-8 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Municipal Planning and Zoning Remedies In case any building or structure is erected, constructed, reconstructed, altered, repaired, converted, or maintained, or any building, structure, or land is us… Proofed
8-5-9 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Municipal Planning and Zoning Conflict With Other Laws Wherever the regulations made under authority of this article require a greater width or size of yards, courts, or other open spaces, or require a lower height … Proofed
8-5-10 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Municipal Planning and Zoning Zoning Power Not to be Effective Until Adopted by Municipality Sections one to nine, both inclusive, of this article shall not be effective in any municipality until the provisions thereof shall have been submitted to and r… Proofed
8-5-11 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Municipal Planning and Zoning Power to Appoint Municipal Planning Commission Any municipality in this State is hereby authorized to appoint a municipal planning commission. Where a zoning commission already exists, the members thereof ma… Proofed
8-5-12 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Municipal Planning and Zoning Municipal Planning Commission; Compensation The municipal planning commission shall consist of not less than five citizens, all of whom shall be taxpayers and residents, who shall be nominated by the mayo… Proofed
8-5-13 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Municipal Planning and Zoning Duties of Commission The duties of the commission shall be to prepare plans for the development of the whole or any portion of the municipality and of any land outside of the munici… Proofed
8-5-14 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Municipal Planning and Zoning Plans of Land and Streets to be Submitted to Commission and Approved by Mayor and Council All plans, plats or replats of land laid out in building lots, and the streets intended to be dedicated to public use, shall be submitted to the municipal plann… Proofed
8-5-15 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Municipal Planning and Zoning Commission May Employ Help; Expenses The municipal planning commission shall have the power and authority to employ engineers and clerks, and/or any other help necessary, and to meet such expenses … Proofed
8-6-1 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Fire Department, Fire Companies, and Firemen’s and Policemen’s Relief Powers of Council in Regard to Fires The council of any town shall have power to provide for the prevention and extinguishment of fires; and for this purpose it may, among other things, regulate ho… Proofed
8-6-2 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Fire Department, Fire Companies, and Firemen’s and Policemen’s Relief Liability for Property Destroyed in Extinguishing Fires The owner of such property shall be entitled to recover from the town the actual damage which he may have sustained by reason of the same having been pulled dow… Proofed
8-6-3 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Fire Department, Fire Companies, and Firemen’s and Policemen’s Relief Extent of Liability The preceding section shall not enable any one to recover compensation for property which would have been destroyed by fire, if the same had not been pulled dow… Proofed
8-6-4 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Fire Department, Fire Companies, and Firemen’s and Policemen’s Relief Formation of Fire Companies Any number of persons, not less than twenty nor more than sixty-four, residing in a town, may form themselves into a company for extinguishing fires therein. Proofed
8-6-5 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Fire Department, Fire Companies, and Firemen’s and Policemen’s Relief Organization of Company; Officers; Regulations A writing stating the formation of such company, with the names of the members thereof subscribed thereto, shall be recorded in the office of the clerk of the c… Proofed
8-6-6 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Fire Department, Fire Companies, and Firemen’s and Policemen’s Relief Duties of Members on Alarm of Fire Every member of the company shall, upon any alarm of fire, attend according to the ordinances of the town or the company’s regulations, and endeavor to extingui… Proofed
8-6-7 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Fire Department, Fire Companies, and Firemen’s and Policemen’s Relief Meetings to Inspect Equipment; Report Besides the meetings required by such ordinances or regulations, semi-annual meetings of the company shall be held in April and October, on such days as the com… Proofed
8-6-8 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Fire Department, Fire Companies, and Firemen’s and Policemen’s Relief Dissolution of Company Whenever the council of such town shall ascertain that such company has failed, for three months successively, to consist of twenty effective members, or ascert… Proofed
8-6-9 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Fire Department, Fire Companies, and Firemen’s and Policemen’s Relief Two-Platoon System of Municipal Fire Department In any municipal corporation in this State having a population of more than eighteen thousand inhabitants, having, or which may hereafter have, a fire departmen… Proofed
8-6-10 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Fire Department, Fire Companies, and Firemen’s and Policemen’s Relief Pension or Relief Fund for Firemen and Policemen; Authorization; Board of Trustees In any municipal corporation in this State having, or which may hereafter have, a fire department and a police department, or either of such departments, suppor… Proofed
8-6-11 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Fire Department, Fire Companies, and Firemen’s and Policemen’s Relief Powers of Board of Trustees Such board of trustees, or boards of trustees, shall be corporations by the name and style of “The Board of Trustees of the Firemen’s Pension or Relief Fund of … Proofed
8-6-12 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Fire Department, Fire Companies, and Firemen’s and Policemen’s Relief Trustees of Firemen’s Pension or Relief Fund; President; Secretary The said board of trustees of the firemen’s pension or relief fund shall consist of the executive officer of any municipal corporation availing itself of the pr… Proofed
8-6-13 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Fire Department, Fire Companies, and Firemen’s and Policemen’s Relief Trustees of Policemen’s Pension or Relief Fund Where it is desired to establish also a policemen’s pension or relief fund, the method of procedure shall be in all respects the same as provided for the format… Proofed
8-6-14 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Fire Department, Fire Companies, and Firemen’s and Policemen’s Relief How Firemen’s or Policemen’s Fund Maintained; Return of Assessments In every municipality availing itself of the provisions of this section, there shall be a firemen’s pension or relief fund or a policemen’s pension or relief fu… Proofed
8-6-15 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Fire Department, Fire Companies, and Firemen’s and Policemen’s Relief Custodian of Funds; Duties; Bond The treasurer of every municipality having a firemen’s or a policemen’s pension or relief fund, or both, shall be the custodian of such fund, or funds, and shal… Proofed
8-6-16 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Fire Department, Fire Companies, and Firemen’s and Policemen’s Relief How Trustees of Funds to Invest Money Received The said board of trustees shall invest any moneys received by them either in interest-bearing bonds of the United States, or of the State of West Virginia, or … Proofed
8-6-17 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Fire Department, Fire Companies, and Firemen’s and Policemen’s Relief Regulations as to Distribution of Such Fund The boards of trustees of the firemen’s and policemen’s pension or relief funds shall make rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the applicable provision… Proofed
8-6-18 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Fire Department, Fire Companies, and Firemen’s and Policemen’s Relief How Sick or Disabled Members to be Paid If any member of such fire department or police department of any such municipality shall, while in the performance of his duties become, or be found upon exami… Proofed
8-6-19 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Fire Department, Fire Companies, and Firemen’s and Policemen’s Relief Limitations on Payments; When Funds Insufficient Until the expiration of three years from the time of the creation of such corporation, unless otherwise authorized by ordinance of such municipal corporation, n… Proofed
8-6-20 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Fire Department, Fire Companies, and Firemen’s and Policemen’s Relief Payments Upon Retirement Without Disability; Payments in Case of Permanent Disability Any member of a municipal fire department or police department who is entitled to the benefits of said fund, and who has been in the continuous service of such … Proofed
8-6-21 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Fire Department, Fire Companies, and Firemen’s and Policemen’s Relief Payments in Case of Death In case any such municipal employee who has been in continuous service for over five years shall be killed or die, then, and in that case, the board of trustees… Proofed
8-7-1 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Taxation and Finance Tax Bills; How and by Whom Prepared; List of Dogs It shall be the duty of the sergeant or such other officer as may be designated by the municipal council to prepare the tax bills, which shall be based upon the… Proofed
8-7-2 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Taxation and Finance Collection of Municipal Taxes, Fines and Assessments; Duties of Sergeant It shall be the duty of the sergeant or such other officer as may be designated by the municipal council to collect and promptly pay into the treasury all taxes… Proofed
8-7-3 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Taxation and Finance Lien for Taxes; Delinquencies There shall be a lien on all real estate within the municipality for the taxes assessed thereon for municipal purposes. The lien for municipal taxes shall attac… Proofed
8-7-4 Ch. 8 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Taxation and Finance Remedies for Failure to Collect, Account for, or Pay Over, Taxes, Etc If the sergeant shall fail to collect, account for and pay over all or any of the moneys with which he may be chargeable, belonging to the town, according to th… Proofed
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