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

§8-18-20. Liberal construction of article; validity and enforcement of assessments when bond issue for same improvements.
This article shall be liberally construed to accomplish the purpose of providing reasonable, economical and expeditious means for municipalities to provide permanent improvements and to assure to the contractors making such improvements, or persons directly or indirectly financing the same, security in the payment of the cost and expense of such improvements; and nothing in this article shall be construed as imposing a time limit on a certificate holder or bondholder for the enforcement of his rights.
Moreover, the validity and enforcement of the assessments in this article provided shall not be impaired by the issuance and sale of bonds, as provided in article one of chapter thirteen of this code, for the same improvements, nor by the application, in whole or in part, of the proceeds of any such bond issue to the cost of any such improvement prior to collection of said assessments.

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...