West Virginia · statute · W. Va. Code ch. 1 · 41 active provisions
The state of West Virginia includes all the territory formerly belonging to the state of Virginia and now comprising the following counties, to wit: Barbour, Berkeley, Boone, Braxton, Brooke, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge, Fayette, Gilmer, Grant, Greenbrier, Hampshire, Hancock, Hardy, Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson, K…
The jurisdiction of this state also extends over all the rivers which are boundary lines between this and any other state, to the opposite shore, where there is no statute or compact to the contrary.
The consent of this state is hereby given to the acquisition by the United States, or under its authority, by purchase, lease, condemnation, or otherwise, of any land acquired, or to be acquired in this state by the United States, from any individual, body politic or corporate, for sites for lighthouses, beacons, signa…
The State of West Virginia reserves the right to execute process, whether juvenile, civil, or criminal, within the limits of any lot or parcel of land heretofore or hereafter acquired by the United States as aforesaid, and such other jurisdiction and authority over the same as is not inconsistent with the jurisdiction…
(a) The following acronyms used throughout this section shall have the following meanings: (1) "FGDC" means the Federal Geographic Data Committee or its successors; (2) "NSRS" means the National Spatial Reference System or its successors; (3) "NGS" means the National Geodetic Survey or its successors; (4) "SPCS" means…
(a) Consent of State. — The consent of this state is hereby given to the establishment of concurrent jurisdiction with the United States in and over any land acquired, or to be acquired, in this state by the United States for military purposes. Land acquired by the United States for military purposes includes, but is n…
(a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Senate Redistricting Act of 2021. (b) As used in this section: (1) “County” means the territory comprising a county of this state as such county existed on January 1, 2020, notwithstanding any boundary changes thereof made subsequent thereto; (2) “Tract”, “block g…
(a) As used in this section: (1) "County" means the territory comprising a county of this state as it existed on January 1, 2020, notwithstanding any boundary changes made subsequent thereto; (2) "Block" and "Block Group" mean those geographic areas as defined by the Bureau of the Census of the United States Department…
Repealed. Acts, 1971 2nd Ex. Sess., Ch. 60.
(a) If an election precinct of this state includes territory contained in more than one senatorial or delegate district, as such senatorial districts are established by §1-2-1 of this Code and as such delegate districts are established by §1-2-2 of this Code, or if following the legislative redistricting accomplished i…
Upon the reapportionment and redistricting of the Legislature following the United States Census in 2020 and in each subsequent reapportionment and redistricting, the House of Delegates shall be composed of one hundred single member districts, with apportionment to meet constitutional standards.
The number of members to which the state is entitled in the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States are apportioned among the counties of the state, arranged into two congressional districts, numbered as follows: First District: Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Fayette, Gilmer, Greenbrier, J…
If section one, two or three of this article or any part of any one or more of said sections is declared invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining sections or provisions of this article or the article in its entirety.
When it is intended to apply to the Legislature for the passage of an act to create a new county, a notice of such intention shall be published as a Class II legal advertisement in compliance with the provisions of article three, chapter fifty-nine of this code, and the publication area for such publication shall be ea…
The county court of each of the counties out of which the new county is proposed to be formed, at its first session after the notice mentioned in the next preceding section has been published, as required by said section, shall order a survey of the whole county, and of that portion thereof proposed to be included in t…
If it appear, by such surveys and census, that there are within the limits of the proposed new county at least four hundred square miles of territory and at least six thousand population, and that no county is thereby reduced below four hundred square miles of territory or below six thousand population, and that no par…
From the plats showing the portion of each county to be included in the proposed new county, mentioned in section two of this article, a plat of the proposed new county shall be prepared under the joint supervision of the surveyors who made the plats of such portions, which plat shall bear the joint certificate of such…
Every application to the Legislature for the formation of a new county must be accompanied by duly certified copies of the surveys, plat of the proposed new county, census and order of the county court declaring the result of such election as aforesaid, together with satisfactory evidence that all the provisions of thi…
All the expenses attending the publication of the notices, the surveying, and the taking of the census, as required in sections one and two of this article, shall be paid by the parties applying for the proposed new county. The expenses incident to the election in each county shall be paid by it and the laws relating t…
If the proposed new county be created with the boundaries specified in the plat and certificate of survey mentioned in section four of this article, a copy of such plat and certificate showing the courses and distances of the boundary line of such new county, and the streams and other natural objects or points referred…
All taxes and levies assessed or laid in any county from which a new county is formed, before the time when the act creating such new county becomes effective, shall be collected, accounted for and paid; and all officers' fees in the hands of any sheriff or other officer at that time shall be accounted for and paid; an…
The courts which, at the time of the passage of the act creating a new county, had jurisdiction over the counties from which it is formed shall retain jurisdiction over all actions, suits and proceedings therein pending at the passage of the act, and shall try and determine the same, and award execution and other proce…
Any proceeding pending before a justice of an old county at the time the act creating a new county becomes effective, which, if brought after that time, would be required by law to be brought before a justice of the new county, shall be transferred, together with the papers and a transcript of the record, to some justi…
The sheriffs and other officers of the counties from which a new county is formed shall, until the sheriff and other officers of the new county are appointed in the manner provided by law for the filling of vacancies in such offices, continue to have and exercise all the jurisdiction, power and authority which they had…
In any case where the residence of a sheriff or other officer required to reside within the county is, by the creation of a new county, included within the limits of the new county, such sheriff or other officer may retain his office provided he change his residence, within fifteen days after the act creating the new c…