West Virginia Code
Article 18. Assessments to Improve Streets, Sidewalks and Sewers; Sewer Connections and Board of Health; Enforcement of Duty to Pay for Service
§8-18-1. Power and Authority of Municipalities Relating to Street, Sidewalk, Sewer and Other Permanent Improvements

§8-18-1. Power and authority of municipalities relating to street, sidewalk, sewer and other permanent improvements.
Every municipality is hereby empowered and authorized, in addition to any other rights, power and authority conferred upon it, upon the terms, conditions and in the manner hereinafter set forth, to grade or regrade, pave or repave, surface or resurface, curb or recurb, streets (which term is used in this article to include avenues and roads), alleys, public ways or easements, or portions thereof, and to build or renew sidewalks, and to construct, provide or renew any of such improvements or other permanent public improvements in any streets, alleys, public ways or easements, or portions thereof, in such municipality, and, if deemed advisable, to construct storm and sanitary sewers, or all or a part of a storm or sanitary or combined storm and sanitary sewer system in any streets, alleys, public ways or easements, or sewer right-of-ways or easements, or portions thereof, independently or in conjunction with other of such improvements, and to assess the costs of any or all of such improvements on abutting property.

Structure West Virginia Code

West Virginia Code

Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations

Article 18. Assessments to Improve Streets, Sidewalks and Sewers; Sewer Connections and Board of Health; Enforcement of Duty to Pay for Service

§8-18-1. Power and Authority of Municipalities Relating to Street, Sidewalk, Sewer and Other Permanent Improvements

§8-18-2. Petition of Abutting Property Owners for Improvement; Improvements Without Petition

§8-18-3. Notice to Abutting Owners Before Authorizing Improvements; Form of Notice; Affidavit of Publication

§8-18-4. Ordinance or Resolution Authorizing Improvements; Approval of Plans, Specifications and Estimates; Provisions for Advertisement of Bids and Payment of Cost; Default

§8-18-5. Report on Completion; Notice to Abutting Owners of Assessments; Hearings; Correcting and Laying Assessments

§8-18-6. Construction of Sewers and Sewer Systems; Assessments; Corner Lots, etc.

§8-18-7. What Total Cost to Include

§8-18-8. Apportionment and Assessment of Cost

§8-18-9. Assessment Against Property of Public, Charitable, Eleemosynary, Educational or Religious Institutions; Duty of Those in Charge to Cause Assessments to Be Paid

§8-18-10. Liens; Recording Notice of Liens; Suit for Enforcement; Priority

§8-18-11. How Assessments May Be Evidenced

§8-18-12. How Funds of Municipality to Be Repaid if Work Paid for From Unappropriated Funds Rather Than by Means of Assessment Certificates or From the Proceeds of Bonds

§8-18-13. Assessment Certificates

§8-18-14. Issuance of Bonds

§8-18-15. Bonds to Pay Municipality's Share of Cost of Improvements

§8-18-16. Bond Issue to Be Authorized by Voters

§8-18-17. Payment of Assessments or Installments; Release

§8-18-18. Reassessment for Void, Irregular or Omitted Assessments

§8-18-19. Limitation on Additional Assessments

§8-18-20. Liberal Construction of Article; Validity and Enforcement of Assessments When Bond Issue for Same Improvements

§8-18-21. Cumulative Authority

§8-18-22. Connection to Sewers; Board of Health; Penalty

§8-18-23. Authority to Require Discontinuance of Water Service by Provider Utility for Nonpayment of Sewer Service Rates and Charges; Lien for Delinquent Service Rates and Charges; Failure to Cure Delinquency; Civil Actions; Deferral of Filing Fees a...