West Virginia Code
Article 1. Water Development Authority
§22C-1-27. Authorized Limit on Borrowing

(a) The aggregate principal amount of bonds and notes issued by the authority may not exceed $500 million outstanding at any one time: Provided, That before the authority issues bonds and notes in excess of $400 million the Legislature must pass a resolution authorizing this action: Provided, however, That in computing the total amount of bonds and notes which may at any one time be outstanding, the principal amount of any outstanding bonds or notes refunded or to be refunded either by application of the proceeds of the sale of any refunding bonds or notes of the authority or by exchange for any refunding bonds or notes, shall be excluded.
(b) In addition to the amounts authorized by subsection (a) of this section, the Water Development Authority may issue, pursuant to section seventeen-b, article fifteen-a, chapter thirty-one of this code, bonds or notes in the aggregate principal amount not to exceed $180 million. This authorization is for the limited purpose of providing grants for capital improvements for publicly owned wastewater treatment facilities with an authorized permitted flow of four hundred thousand gallons per day or more which are required to maintain compliance with certain standards for discharges into watersheds in accordance with said section seventeen-b.

Structure West Virginia Code

West Virginia Code

Chapter 22C. Environmental Resources; Boards, Authorities, Commissions and Compacts

Article 1. Water Development Authority

§22C-1-1. Short Title

§22C-1-2. Declaration of Policy and Responsibility; Purpose and Intent of Article; Findings

§22C-1-3. Definitions

§22C-1-4. Water Development Authority; Water Development Board; Organization of Authority and Board; Appointment of Board Members; Their Term of Office, Compensation and Expenses; Director of Authority; Compensation

§22C-1-5. Authority May Construct, Finance, Maintain, etc., Water Development Projects; Loans to Governmental Agencies Are Subject to Terms of Loan Agreements

§22C-1-6. Powers, Duties, and Responsibilities of Authority Generally

§22C-1-6a. Additional Powers of the West Virginia Water Development Authority; Creation of Economic Enhancement Grant Fund

§22C-1-7. Power of Authority to Collect Service Charges and Exercise Other Powers of Governmental Agencies in Event of Default; Power to Require Governmental Agencies to Enforce Their Rights

§22C-1-8. Expenditure of Funds for Study and Engineering of Proposed Projects

§22C-1-9. Authority Empowered to Issue Water Development Revenue Bonds, Renewal Notes and Refunding Bonds; Requirements and Manner of Such Issuance

§22C-1-10. Trustee for Bondholders; Contents of Trust Agreement

§22C-1-11. Trust Agreements for Related Responsibilities; Reimbursements

§22C-1-12. Legal Remedies of Bondholders and Trustees

§22C-1-13. Bonds and Notes Not Debt of State, County, Municipality or of Any Political Subdivision; Expenses Incurred Pursuant to Article

§22C-1-14. Use of Funds by Authority; Restrictions Thereon

§22C-1-15. Investment of Funds by Authority

§22C-1-16. Rentals and Other Revenues From Water Development Projects Owned by the Authority; Contracts and Leases of the Authority; Cooperation of Other Governmental Agencies; Bonds of Such Agencies

§22C-1-17. Maintenance, Operation and Repair of Projects; Reports by Authority to Governor and Legislature

§22C-1-18. Water Development Bonds Lawful Investments

§22C-1-19. Purchase and Cancellation of Notes or Bonds

§22C-1-20. Refunding Bonds

§22C-1-21. Exemption From Taxation

§22C-1-22. Acquisition of Property by Authority -- Acquisition by Purchase; Governmental Agencies Authorized to Convey, etc., Property

§22C-1-23. Same -- Acquisition Under Subdivision (10), Section Six of This Article; Property of Public Utilities and Common Carriers; Relocation, Restoration, etc., of Highways and Public Utility Facilities

§22C-1-24. Financial Interest in Contracts Prohibited; Penalty

§22C-1-25. Meetings and Records of Authority to Be Kept Public

§22C-1-26. Liberal Construction of Article

§22C-1-27. Authorized Limit on Borrowing