West Virginia Code
Chapter 8. Municipal Corporations
Article 15. Fire Fighting; Fire Companies and Departments; Civil Service for Paid Fire Departments

§8-15-1. Power and Authority of Governing Body With Respect to Fires - The governing body of every municipality shall have plenary power...

§8-15-2. Liability for Property Pulled Down or Destroyed to Prevent Spread of Fire - The owner of any property pulled down or destroyed to...

§8-15-3. Municipalities Empowered and Authorized to Contract for Prevention and Extinguishment of Fires Beyond the Corporate Limits - (a) Any municipality may contract to render services in the...

§8-15-4. Power and Authority to Form Fire Companies; Recordation of Statement; Organization - §8-15-4. Power and authority to form fire companies; recordation of...

§8-15-5. Duties of Company Members; Meetings to Inspect Equipment; Report; Penalty for Noncompliance - Every member of a volunteer fire company shall, upon any...

§8-15-6. Dissolution of Volunteer Fire Company - Whenever the governing body shall ascertain that such company has...

§8-15-7. Incorporation of Volunteer Fire Companies; Duties and Obligations; Dissolution - In lieu of forming a company as specified in section...

§8-15-7a. Audit or Financial Examination of Volunteer Fire Companies - The Auditor shall have the authority and the duty to...

§8-15-8. Support of Volunteer Fire Company; Return of Property Upon Dissolution - Any municipality may contribute to the support of its volunteer...

§8-15-8a. Eligibility for Allocation From Municipal Pensions and Protection Fund and the Fire Protection Fund - (a) In order to be eligible to receive revenues allocated...

§8-15-8b. Authorized Expenditures of Revenues From the Municipal Pensions and Protection Fund and the Fire Protection Fund; Deductions for Unauthorized Expenditures; Record Retention - (a) Money received from the state for volunteer and part-volunteer...

§8-15-8c. Donation of Equipment - (a) Effective July 1, 2002, no person, company or other...

§8-15-9. Establishment and Maintenance of Paid Fire Department - §8-15-9. Establishment and maintenance of paid fire department. Any municipality...

§8-15-10. Hours of Duty for Firemen in a Paid Fire Department - On and after the effective date of this section, the...

§8-15-10a. Firemen Who Are Required to Work During Holidays; How Compensated - From the effective date of this section, if any member...

§8-15-10b. Mandatory Safety Procedures for Situations Deemed Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health - (a) For the purposes of this article: (1) "Immediately dangerous...

§8-15-11. Qualifications for Appointment or Promotion to Positions in Paid Fire Departments to Be Ascertained by Examination; Provisions Exclusive as to Appointments, etc.; Rights of Certain Chiefs; &Quot;appointing Officer" Defined - (a) All appointments and promotions to all positions in all...

§8-15-12. Firemen's Civil Service Commission Generally - In every municipality having a paid fire department, there shall...

§8-15-13. Recorder Ex Officio Clerk of Commission; Clerical and Stenographic Services - The recorder of the municipality shall be ex officio clerk...

§8-15-14. Rooms, Stationery, etc., to Be Furnished by Municipality; Appropriations Required - It shall be the duty of the mayor and the...

§8-15-15. Powers, Authority and Duties of Firemen's Civil Service Commission - The firemen's civil service commission in each municipality shall: (1)...

§8-15-16. Rules for All Examinations; Probationary Appointments - The firemen's civil service commission in each municipality shall make...

§8-15-16a. Apprenticeship Programs - Any paid municipal fire department may have an apprenticeship program....

§8-15-17. Form of Application; Age and Residency Requirements; Exceptions - (a) The Firemen’s Civil Service Commission in each municipality shall...

§8-15-18. Character and Notice of Competitive Examinations; Qualifications of Applicants; Press Representatives; Posting Eligible List; Medical Examinations - All competitive examinations for appointments or promotions to all positions...

§8-15-18a. Individual Review of Test and Answers From Promotional Examination - (a) Any applicant for promotion to any position in a...

§8-15-19. Refusal to Examine or Certify; Review Thereof - The commission may refuse to examine an applicant, or after...

§8-15-20. Appointments From List of Eligible Applicants; Special Examinations for Electricians or Mechanics - (a) Every position, unless filled by promotion, reinstatement, or reduction,...

§8-15-20a. Special Examination for Firefighter Paramedic - (a) A municipality with a firefighter's civil service commission providing...

§8-15-21. Noncompetitive Examination for Filling Vacancy; Provisional Appointment - Whenever there are urgent reasons for filling a vacancy in...

§8-15-22. Vacancies Filled by Promotions; Eligibility for Promotion - Vacancies in positions in a paid fire department shall be...

§8-15-23. No Inquiry Shall Be Made Concerning Political or Religious Opinions or Affiliations of Applicants, etc. - No question in any form of application or in or...

§8-15-24. Political Activities of Members Prohibited; Exceptions - (a) No member of any paid fire department may: (1)...

§8-15-25. Removal, Discharge, Suspension or Reduction in Rank or Pay; Hearing; Attorney Fees; Appeal; Reduction in Number of Members - (a) No member of any paid fire department subject to...

§8-15-26. Offenses and Penalties - Any individual who makes an appointment or promotion to any...

§8-15-27. Repeal of Conflicting Acts and Provisions; Civil Service Provisions of Article Exclusive; Status or Tenure Not Affected - All acts, whether general, special, local or special legislative charters,...