West Virginia Code
Article 6. West Virginia Investment Management Board
§12-6-18. Liberal Construction

This article, being necessary to secure the public health, safety, convenience and welfare of the citizens of this state, shall be liberally construed to effect the public purposes of this article. The powers granted to the board in this article, including, without limitation, those granted in section five of this article, are intended to be broad and shall be construed broadly so as to vest in the board the power and authority necessary or appropriate to carry out and effectuate its corporate purposes in the financial markets of the world, as the same may evolve, from time to time, at all times in a fashion consistent with the prudent investor standard as provided by the West Virginia Uniform Prudent Investor Act, codified as article six-c, chapter forty-four of this code and section eleven of this article.

Structure West Virginia Code

West Virginia Code

Chapter 12. Public Moneys and Securities

Article 6. West Virginia Investment Management Board

§12-6-1. Purposes and Objects; How Article Cited

§12-6-1a. Legislative Findings

§12-6-2. Definitions

§12-6-3. West Virginia Investment Management Board Continued; Body Corporate; Trust Fund Board; Trustees; Nomination and Appointment of Trustees, Qualifications and Terms of Appointment, Advice and Consent; Annual and Other Meetings; Designation of R...

§12-6-4. Management and Control of Fund; Officers; Staff; Fiduciary or Surety Bonds for Trustees; Liability of Trustees

§12-6-5. Powers of the Board

§12-6-5a. Legislative Findings and Limitation on Certain Board Actions

§12-6-6. Annual Audits; Reports and Information to Constitutional and Legislative Officers, Council of Finance and Administration, Consolidated Public Retirement Board, Workers' Compensation Fund and Coal-Workers' Pneumoconiosis Fund; Statements and...

§12-6-7. Legal Status of Agencies and Boards Continued

§12-6-8. Investment Funds Established; Management Thereof

§12-6-9. Fees for Service

§12-6-9a. Trust Indenture

§12-6-9c. Authorization of Additional Investments

§12-6-9e. Legislative Findings; Loans for Industrial Development; Availability of Funds and Interest Rates

§12-6-9h. Securities Handling

§12-6-11. Standard of Care and Investment Requirements; Disclosure of Information

§12-6-13. Board as Agency for Investments; Exceptions

§12-6-14. Reports of Board; Legislative Audits, Reviews and Studies

§12-6-16. Existing Investments

§12-6-17. Severability of Provisions

§12-6-18. Liberal Construction

§12-6-19. Authorization for Loans by the Board

§12-6-20. Continuation of Board

§12-6-21. Investment With Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority