No injunction shall be awarded by any court or judge to restrain the collection of the taxes, or any part of them, so assessed upon the property of such owner or operator, except upon the ground that the assessment thereof was in violation of the Constitution of the United States, or of this state; or that the same were fraudulently assessed, or that there was a mistake made by the Auditor in the amount of taxes properly chargeable on the property of such owner or operator; and in the latter case no such injunction shall be awarded unless application be first made to the Auditor to correct the mistake claimed, and the Auditor shall refuse to do so, which fact shall be stated in the bill, nor unless the complainant pay into the treasury of the state all taxes appearing by the bill of complaint to be owing.
Structure West Virginia Code
Article 6. Assessment of Public Service Businesses
§11-6-1. Returns of Property to Board of Public Works
§11-6-4. Same -- Car Line Companies
§11-6-5. Same -- Pipeline Companies
§11-6-6. Same -- Express Companies
§11-6-7. Same -- Telegraph and Telephone Companies
§11-6-8. Form and Manner of Making Return; Failure to Make Return; Criminal Penalty
§11-6-9. Compelling Such Return; Procuring Information and Tentative Assessments by Tax Commissioner
§11-6-10. Failure to Give Information Required by Board of Public Works; Criminal Penalty
§11-6-11. Valuation of Property by Board
§11-6-11a. Adjustment of Valuation by Board
§11-6-12. Appeal From Valuation by Board
§11-6-12a. Relief From Erroneous Assessments
§11-6-13. Apportionment of Value Among Counties, Districts and Municipalities
§11-6-14. Certification of Levies to Auditor
§11-6-15. Failure of Officers to Perform Duties as to Property of Public Service Corporations
§11-6-16. Entry of Assessment by Auditor of Property of Such Public Service Businesses
§11-6-17. Injunction to Restrain Collection of Tax
§11-6-18. Payment of Assessment by Owner or Operator
§11-6-19. Accounting by Sheriff for District and Municipal Taxes From Public Service Corporations
§11-6-20. No Release of Taxes Assessed Against Such Corporations
§11-6-21. Accounting for Levies Against Public Service Corporations
§11-6-23. Lien of Taxes; Notice; Collection by Suit
§11-6-24. Assessment of Buildings and Real Estate of Public Service Corporations
§11-6-26. Operating Fund for Public Utilities Division in Auditor S Office