West Virginia Code — 8
Browse 578 sections in division 8 of the West Virginia code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 8-1-1. Purpose and short title.
- § 8-1-2. Definitions of terms.
- § 8-1-3. Classification of municipal corporations.
- § 8-1-4. 8-1-4. How population determined.
- § 8-1-5. 8-1-5. Existing status of municipalities confirmed; powers, authority, duties and responsibilities conferred by law.
- § 8-1-6. 8-1-6. Application of provisions of this chapter; inconsistent or conflicting special legislative charter provisions; amendment of special legislative charters; inconsistent or conflicting ordinance provisions; status and tenure of officers and members not affected; transactions already entered into not affected.
- § 8-1-7. 8-1-7. Construction of powers and authority granted.
- § 8-1-8. 8-1-8. References to code provisions.
- § 8-1-9. 8-1-9. Reporting of fraud and misappropriations of funds.
- § 8-2-1. Requirements for incorporation; size and character of territory; population.
- § 8-2-2. 8-2-2. Petition; survey and map.
- § 8-2-3. 8-2-3. Hearing on petition; notice; dismissal.
- § 8-2-4. 8-2-4. Census; bond; appointment and duties of enumerators.
- § 8-2-5. Special incorporation election — Voting precincts; time for election; supplies; commissioners and clerks; notice.
- § 8-2-6. 8-2-6. Same -- Qualified electors; form of ballot or ballot label; election officials; certification; canvass; declaration of results; recount.
- § 8-2-7. 8-2-7. County commission order declaring boundaries of city; certificate of incorporation of town or village; dismissal of proceeding.
- § 8-2-8. Judicial review.
- § 8-3-1. Charter board for cities -- Number of members; qualifications of members; nominations; ballots and ballot labels; dismissal of proceeding.
- § 8-3-2. 8-3-2. Charter board for cities -- Organization; journal; quorum; duties; time for draft of charter; form of city government.
- § 8-3-3. 8-3-3. City charters -- Approval and certification by attorney general.
- § 8-3-4. 8-3-4. Same -- Hearing and notice.
- § 8-3-5. 8-3-5. Same -- Changes; time for changes; signatures; filing.
- § 8-3-6. 8-3-6. Same —Time for election; notice; voting precincts; supplies; officials; certification; canvass; declaration of results; recount.
- § 8-3-7. 8-3-7. Same -- Approval; effective date; certification; judicial notice; recordation.
- § 8-3-8. 8-3-8. Same -- Rejection; rewriting or altering draft; new charter board.
- § 8-3-9. Continuing duties of charter boards; revising or amending a charter.
- § 8-3-10. Expenses of incorporation.
- § 8-4-1. Initiation of proceedings for framing a charter.
- § 8-4-2. 8-4-2. Charter board; number of members; qualifications of members; nominations; notice; ballots and ballot labels; election of a charter board; effect of vote on question as to charter board.
- § 8-4-3. 8-4-3. Provisions of article three made applicable; duties and responsibilities of county court under article three placed upon governing body under this article; duties and responsibilities of charter board; exceptions.
- § 8-4-4. 8-4-4. Submission of proposed charter to qualified voters.
- § 8-4-5. 8-4-5. Approval of charter; effective date; certification; judicial notice; recordation; effect of rejection.
- § 8-4-6. 8-4-6. New charter supersedes existing charter; effect on ordinances and administrative law.
- § 8-4-7. Revising or amending a charter — generally.
- § 8-4-8. 8-4-8. Same — An alternate plan.
- § 8-4-9. 8-4-9. Submission of alternative provisions.
- § 8-4-10. Conduct of elections; general provisions concerning canvass and declaration of results; election supplies; election officials.
- § 8-4-11. 8-4-11. Special election and special municipal election officials.
- § 8-4-12. 8-4-12. Expenses.
- § 8-5-1. First election of officers of a city; terms of first officers.
- § 8-5-2. 8-5-2. First election of officers of a town or village; commissioners of election.
- § 8-5-3. 8-5-3. When first election of officers of a town or village held; notice.
- § 8-5-4. 8-5-4. Conducting first election of officers of a town or village; certificate of election; terms of first officers.
- § 8-5-5. 8-5-5. Regular election of officers; establishment of longer terms.
- § 8-5-6. Charter provisions concerning officers and elections, etc.; provisions of general law concerning same.
- § 8-5-7. 8-5-7. Certain officers; wards or election districts; residency and other requirements.
- § 8-5-8. Oath of office.
- § 8-5-9. 8-5-9. Terms of office.
- § 8-5-10. 8-5-10. Vacancies in elective offices; how filled.
- § 8-5-11. Municipal officers and employees generally.
- § 8-5-12. 8-5-12. Compensation of officers and employees.
- § 8-5-13. Integration of municipal elections with system of permanent registration.
- § 8-5-14. 8-5-14. Municipal executive committees; election expenses; applicability of state primary and general election laws; election days.
- § 8-5-15. 8-5-15. Tie vote.
- § 8-5-16. 8-5-16. Judicial review.
- § 8-5-17. 8-5-17. Canvassing of elections; contested elections.
- § 8-5-18. 8-5-18. Determination as to sufficiency of a petition filed under this chapter.
- § 8-5-19. Charter or ordinance provisions pertaining to conflict of interest; penalties for violation thereof.
- § 8-5-20. 8-5-20. Triennial audits of certain associations and organizations.
- § 8-6-1. Annexation of unincorporated territory.
- § 8-6-2. Petition for annexation.
- § 8-6-3. 8-6-3. Governing body of municipality to certify annexation; order.
- § 8-6-4. Annexation without an election.
- § 8-6-5. 8-6-5. Annexation by minor boundary adjustment.
- § 8-6-6. Duties as to ad valorem taxes for municipal purposes on properties in newly annexed areas.
- § 8-7-1. Decrease of corporate limits.
- § 8-7-2. Procedure to decrease corporate limits.
- § 8-7-3. 8-7-3. Governing body of municipality to certify decrease in corporate limits; order.
- § 8-7-4. Decreasing corporate limits by minor boundary adjustment.
- § 8-8-1. 8-8-1.
- § 8-9-1. 8-9-1. Who to preside at meetings of governing body; quorum; interested member of governing body not to vote.
- § 8-9-2. 8-9-2. Mayor and recorder may vote; tie vote.
- § 8-9-3. 8-9-3. Governing body to keep records; minutes of proceedings; voting.
- § 8-9-4. 8-9-4. Reporting of fraud and misappropriation of funds.
- § 8-10-1. Powers and duties of mayor.
- § 8-10-2. 8-10-2. Municipal court for municipalities.
- § 8-10-3. Powers and duties of recorder.
- § 8-10-4. 8-10-4. Powers and duties of recorder or clerk relating to warrants, oaths, sureties and bonds.
- § 8-11-1. 8-11-1. Ordinances to make municipal powers effective; penalties imposed under judgment of mayor or police court or municipal judge; right to injunctive relief; right to maintain action to collect fines; additional assessment of costs.
- § 8-11-2. 8-11-2. Validity of ordinances delegating discretion.
- § 8-11-3. 8-11-3. Cases requiring enactment of ordinance.
- § 8-11-4. 8-11-4. Ordinance procedures.
- § 8-11-5. 8-11-5. Prejudgment alternative disposition of certain traffic offenses.
- § 8-12-1. General corporate powers of all municipalities.
- § 8-12-2. Home rule powers for all cities.
- § 8-12-3. 8-12-3. Creation by charter provision of certain independent city boards.
- § 8-12-4. 8-12-4. Power to provide by charter for initiative, referendum and recall.
- § 8-12-5. 8-12-5. General powers of every municipality and the governing body thereof.
- § 8-12-6. Membership in association or league.
- § 8-12-7. 8-12-7. Power and authority to purchase insurance and to indemnify officers, agents and employees.
- § 8-12-8. 8-12-8. Group insurance programs authorized.
- § 8-12-9. 8-12-9. Power and authority to enact ordinance prohibiting discrimination with respect to housing accommodations.
- § 8-12-10. 8-12-10. Purchasing; competitive bidding.
- § 8-12-11. 8-12-11. Lease agreements for equipment or materials with option to cancel or renew for one year authorized.
- § 8-12-12. 8-12-12. Power and authority to lease, establish, maintain and operate off-street parking facility.
- § 8-12-13. 8-12-13. Building regulation; general and special codes; state building code.
- § 8-12-14. 8-12-14. Permits for construction and alteration.
- § 8-12-15. 8-12-15. Municipal inspection.
- § 8-12-16. 8-12-16. Ordinances regulating the repair, alteration, improvement, closing, demolition, etc., of structures, dwellings, or buildings that are unsafe, unsanitary, dangerous, or detrimental to the public safety or welfare; procedures.
- § 8-12-17. 8-12-17. Sale or lease of municipal public utility.
- § 8-12-18. 8-12-18. Sale, lease, or disposition of other municipal property.
- § 8-12-19. Extraterritorial exercise of powers and authority.
- § 8-12-20. 8-12-20. Authorizing municipalities to enact Adopt-A-Street programs.
- § 8-12-21. 8-12-21. Restriction on the regulation of trades, occupations, and professions.
- § 8-12-22. 8-12-22. Foreclosure actions involving abandoned properties.
- § 8-12-23. 8-12-23. Limitations on municipalities, political subdivisions, and local governing bodies’ authority over energy usage and development.
- § 8-12-24. 8-12-24. Dedication to or naming municipal property for office holder prohibited.
- § 8-12-25. 8-12-25. Authorizing certain municipalities to create a pension funding program.
- § 8-12-26. 8-12-26. Authorizing municipalities to create private outdoor designated areas.
- § 8-12-27. 8-12-27. Prohibiting municipalities from imposing additional alcohol licensure fees.
- § 8-13-1. General property and benefit taxes.
- § 8-13-2. 8-13-2. Correcting erroneous tax levy.
- § 8-13-3. 8-13-3. Hotel occupancy tax.
- § 8-13-4. 8-13-4. Municipal license and tax thereon when state license required.
- § 8-13-5. 8-13-5. Business and occupation or privilege tax; limitation on rates; effective date of tax; exemptions; activity in two or more municipalities; administrative provisions; electronic data processing system to facilitate the filing and collection of municipal business and occupation or privilege taxes.
- § 8-13-6. 8-13-6. Amusement tax.
- § 8-13-7. 8-13-7. Tax on purchases of intoxicating liquors in municipalities; private club fees.
- § 8-13-8. 8-13-8. License tax on horse racing and dog racing.
- § 8-13-9. 8-13-9. Motor vehicle operator's tax.
- § 8-13-10. 8-13-10. Domestic animal tax.
- § 8-13-11. 8-13-11. Preservation of prior taxing powers of cities.
- § 8-13-12. 8-13-12. Borrowing power.
- § 8-13-13. 8-13-13. Special charges for municipal services.
- § 8-13-14. Penalties.
- § 8-13-15. 8-13-15. Collection of municipal taxes, fines and assessments.
- § 8-13-16. 8-13-16. Remedies for failure to collect, account for or pay over moneys.
- § 8-13-17. Reports, etc., to conform to fiscal year.
- § 8-13-18. 8-13-18. Audits and accounts.
- § 8-13-19. 8-13-19. Capital reserve fund.
- § 8-13-20. 8-13-20. Balances in Municipal Bond Commission fund may be transferred or remitted to general fund where bonded indebtedness has been paid or where defeasance or payment of bonded indebtedness has been provided for; use of transferred or remitted funds.
- § 8-13-21. 8-13-21. Disposition of funds for public works when materials, etc., not available.
- § 8-13-22. 8-13-22. Payment of money out of municipal treasury must be by order; signing of orders by mechanical or electrical devices; officers jointly and severally liable for neglect; forgery; penalty.
- § 8-13-23. 8-13-23. Preparation, publication and disposition of financial statements.
- § 8-13-24. 8-13-24. Notice of delinquency.
- § 8-13-25. 8-13-25. Delinquent list preparation.
- § 8-13-26. 8-13-26. Publication and posting of delinquent tax list; costs.
- § 8-13-27. 8-13-27. Notice of delinquent lists to city council and retention of list by city.
- § 8-14-1. Power and authority with respect to the preservation of law and order; police force or departments.
- § 8-14-2. 8-14-2. Hours of duty for policemen in a paid police department under civil service; overtime compensation or time off; municipal emergencies.
- § 8-14-3. 8-14-3. Powers, authority, and duties of law-enforcement officials and policemen.
- § 8-14-4. Police matrons.
- § 8-14-5. Special school zone police officers.
- § 8-14-6. Qualifications for appointment or promotion to positions in certain paid police departments to be ascertained by examination; provisions exclusiv
- § 8-14-7. 8-14-7. Policemen's civil service commission generally.
- § 8-14-8. 8-14-8. Recorder ex officio clerk of commission; clerical and stenographic services.
- § 8-14-9. 8-14-9. Rooms, stationery, etc., to be furnished by city; appropriations required.
- § 8-14-10. 8-14-10. Powers, authority and duties of policemen's civil service commission.
- § 8-14-11. 8-14-11. Rules and regulations for all examinations; probationary appointments.
- § 8-14-12. 8-14-12. Form of application; age and residency requirements; exceptions.
- § 8-14-13. 8-14-13. Character and notice of competitive examinations; qualifications of applicants; press representatives; posting eligible list; medical examinations.
- § 8-14-14. 8-14-14. Refusal to examine or certify; review thereof.
- § 8-14-15. 8-14-15. Appointments from list of eligibles.
- § 8-14-16. 8-14-16. Noncompetitive examination for filling vacancy; provisional appointment.
- § 8-14-17. 8-14-17. Vacancies filled by promotions; eligibility for promotion; rights of chief.
- § 8-14-18. 8-14-18. No inquiry shall be made concerning political or religious opinions or affiliations of applicants, etc.
- § 8-14-19. 8-14-19. Political activities of members prohibited; exceptions.
- § 8-14-20. 8-14-20. Removal, discharge, suspension or reduction in rank or pay; hearing; attorney fees; appeal; reduction in number of members.
- § 8-14-21. 8-14-21. Election to determine if civil service provisions of article shall apply to Class III city or Class IV town or village; existing police civil service not affected; certain regular members automatically covered.
- § 8-14-22. 8-14-22. Offenses and penalties.
- § 8-14-23. 8-14-23. Repeal of conflicting acts and provisions; civil service provisions of article exclusive; status or tenure not affected; certain members automatically covered; continuance of police civil service systems.
- § 8-14-24. 8-14-24. Right to receive complete standard uniform; right to acquire badge; and right to keep service weapon.
- § 8-15-1. 8-15-1. Power and authority of governing body with respect to fires.
- § 8-15-2. 8-15-2. Liability for property pulled down or destroyed to prevent spread of fire.
- § 8-15-3. 8-15-3. Municipalities empowered and authorized to contract for prevention and extinguishment of fires beyond the corporate limits.
- § 8-15-4. Power and authority to form fire companies; recordation of statement; organization.
- § 8-15-5. 8-15-5. Duties of company members; meetings to inspect equipment; report; penalty for noncompliance.
- § 8-15-6. 8-15-6. Dissolution of volunteer fire company.
- § 8-15-7. 8-15-7. Incorporation of volunteer fire companies; duties and obligations; dissolution.
- § 8-15-8. 8-15-8. Support of volunteer fire company; return of property upon dissolution.
- § 8-15-9. Establishment and maintenance of paid fire department.
- § 8-15-10. 8-15-10. Hours of duty for firemen in a paid fire department.
- § 8-15-11. 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; "appointing officer" defined.
- § 8-15-12. 8-15-12. Firemen's civil service commission generally.
- § 8-15-13. 8-15-13. Recorder ex officio clerk of commission; clerical and stenographic services.
- § 8-15-14. 8-15-14. Rooms, stationery, etc., to be furnished by municipality; appropriations required.
- § 8-15-15. 8-15-15. Powers, authority and duties of firemen's civil service commission.
- § 8-15-16. 8-15-16. Rules for all examinations; probationary appointments.
- § 8-15-17. 8-15-17. Form of application; age and residency requirements; exceptions.
- § 8-15-18. 8-15-18. Character and notice of competitive examinations; qualifications of applicants; press representatives; posting eligible list; medical examinations.
- § 8-15-19. 8-15-19. Refusal to examine or certify; review thereof.
- § 8-15-20. 8-15-20. Appointments from list of eligible applicants; special examinations for electricians or mechanics.
- § 8-15-21. 8-15-21. Noncompetitive examination for filling vacancy; provisional appointment.
- § 8-15-22. 8-15-22. Vacancies filled by promotions; eligibility for promotion.
- § 8-15-23. 8-15-23. No inquiry shall be made concerning political or religious opinions or affiliations of applicants, etc.
- § 8-15-24. 8-15-24. Political activities of members prohibited; exceptions.
- § 8-15-25. 8-15-25. Removal, discharge, suspension or reduction in rank or pay; hearing; attorney fees; appeal; reduction in number of members.
- § 8-15-26. 8-15-26. Offenses and penalties.
- § 8-15-27. 8-15-27. Repeal of conflicting acts and provisions; civil service provisions of article exclusive; status or tenure not affected.
- § 8-15-28. 8-15-28. Awarding service weapon upon retirement.
- § 8-16-1. Definitions.
- § 8-16-2. 8-16-2. Municipalities authorized to construct, etc., public works and to acquire property; payment of costs.
- § 8-16-3. 8-16-3. Special provisions as to certain municipal public works.
- § 8-16-4. Construction, etc., to be under control of governing body or appointed board, etc.
- § 8-16-5. 8-16-5. Powers of board; bidding requirements; emergency repairs.
- § 8-16-6. 8-16-6. Preliminary expenses.
- § 8-16-7. 8-16-7. Ordinance for construction, etc., of works.
- § 8-16-8. Right of eminent domain.
- § 8-16-9. Bonds for improvements, etc., of works.
- § 8-16-10. 8-16-10. Items of expense included in cost of works.
- § 8-16-11. 8-16-11. No municipality is to incur any obligation not payable from proceeds of bonds; exemption from taxation.
- § 8-16-12. 8-16-12. Interest rate and life of bonds; redemption; how payable; form, denominations, etc.; additional bonds authorized; interim certificates.
- § 8-16-13. 8-16-13. Obligations not to bind municipal official or officer or member of board personally.
- § 8-16-14. 8-16-14. Additional bonds for improvements, etc., of works.
- § 8-16-15. 8-16-15. How proceeds of bonds applied.
- § 8-16-16. 8-16-16. Bonds secured by trust indenture between municipality or municipalities and corporate trustee.
- § 8-16-17. 8-16-17. Sinking fund; West Virginia Municipal Bond Commission; transfer of funds; purchase of outstanding bonds.
- § 8-16-18. 8-16-18. Rates, fees, or charges for services rendered by works.
- § 8-16-19. §8-16-19
- § 8-16-20. Accounting system; yearly audit; custodian of funds.
- § 8-16-21. Governmental entities to pay established rates, fees or charges for services rendered to it or them.
- § 8-16-22. Statutory mortgage lien upon works created.
- § 8-16-23. 8-16-23. Acquisition of property on which lien exists.
- § 8-16-24. 8-16-24. Protection and enforcement of rights of bondholders, etc.; receivership; effect of receivership on lease agreement.
- § 8-16-25. Article confers additional power and authority; extraterritorial jurisdiction.
- § 8-16-26. 8-16-26. Construction of power and authority conferred.
- § 8-16-27. 8-16-27. Article liberally construed.
- § 8-16-28. 8-16-28. Reference to "municipal authorities" or "municipal authority" elsewhere in law to mean "governing body" for the purposes of this article only.
- § 8-17-1. Purpose of article; liberal construction.
- § 8-17-2. 8-17-2. Definitions.
- § 8-17-3. Municipality empowered and authorized to make improvements.
- § 8-17-4. 8-17-4. Petition and bond; action of governing body; memorandum of engineer.
- § 8-17-5. 8-17-5. Hearing on adverse report in engineer's memorandum; notice thereof; modification of memorandum; expenses charged to petitioner upon failure of petition.
- § 8-17-6. 8-17-6. When petition for improvement is to be granted.
- § 8-17-7. Procedure when petitioner to pay all of total cost.
- § 8-17-8. 8-17-8. Procedure when total cost to be apportioned among all abutters.
- § 8-17-9. 8-17-9. Accomplishment of the improvement; use of municipal employees and equipment; contracts; account of costs.
- § 8-17-10. 8-17-10. Apportionment among petitioners only; limit on total cost chargeable to petitioners; notice.
- § 8-17-11. 8-17-11. Apportionment among all abutters; limit on total cost chargeable to abutters; engineer's report; notice; hearings; correcting and laying assessments.
- § 8-17-12. 8-17-12. Assessments where property owned or controlled by public, charitable, eleemosynary, educational or religious institutions; duty of those in charge to cause assessments to be paid.
- § 8-17-13. Due date of assessments; statement of amount in default to petitioner.
- § 8-17-14. 8-17-14. Due date of charges against petitioner; collection on bond; petitioner's right of action.
- § 8-17-15. Cumulative authority.
- § 8-18-1. Power and authority of municipalities relating to street, sidewalk, sewer and other permanent improvements.
- § 8-18-2. 8-18-2. Petition of abutting property owners for improvement; improvements without petition.
- § 8-18-3. 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 payme
- § 8-18-5. 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. 8-18-7. What total cost to include.
- § 8-18-8. 8-18-8. Apportionment and assessment of cost.
- § 8-18-9. 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. 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 pr
- § 8-18-13. Assessment certificates.
- § 8-18-14. Issuance of bonds.
- § 8-18-15. 8-18-15. Bonds to pay municipality's share of cost of improvements.
- § 8-18-16. 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. 8-18-21. Cumulative authority.
- § 8-18-22. 8-18-22. Connection to sewers; board of health; penalty.
- § 8-18-23. 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 and costs in magistrate court action; limitations with respect to foreclosure.
- § 8-19-1. Acquisition and operation of municipal and county waterworks and electric power systems; construction of improvements to municipal and county ele
- § 8-19-2. 8-19-2. Contracts for purchase of electric power or energy by a municipality; definitions; requirements; payments; rates and charges.
- § 8-19-3. Right of eminent domain; limitations.
- § 8-19-4. 8-19-4. Estimate of cost; ordinance or order for issuance of revenue bonds; interest on bonds; rates for services; exemption from taxation.
- § 8-19-5. 8-19-5. Publication of abstract of ordinance or order and notice; hearing.
- § 8-19-6. 8-19-6. Amount, negotiability and execution of bonds.
- § 8-19-7. 8-19-7. Bonds payable solely from revenues; not to constitute municipal or county indebtedness.
- § 8-19-8. 8-19-8. Lien of bondholders; deeds of trust; security agreements; priority of liens.
- § 8-19-9. 8-19-9. Covenants with bondholders.
- § 8-19-10. 8-19-10. Operating contract.
- § 8-19-11. 8-19-11. Rates or charges for water and electric power must be sufficient to pay bonds, etc.; disposition of surplus.
- § 8-19-12. 8-19-12. Service charges; sinking fund; amount of bonds; additional bonds; surplus.
- § 8-19-13. 8-19-13. Discontinuance of water or electric power service for nonpayment of rates or charges.
- § 8-19-14. 8-19-14. Bonds for additions, betterments and improvements.
- § 8-19-15. 8-19-15. System of accounts; audit.
- § 8-19-16. 8-19-16. Protection and enforcement of rights of bondholders, etc.; receivership.
- § 8-19-17. Grants, loans, advances and agreements.
- § 8-19-18. 8-19-18. Additional and alternative method for constructing or improving and for financing waterworks or electric power system; cumulative authority.
- § 8-19-19. Alternative procedure for acquisition, construction or improvement of waterworks or electric power system.
- § 8-19-20. 8-19-20. Article to be liberally construed.
- § 8-19-21. 8-19-21. Specifications for water mains and water service pipes.
- § 8-19-22. 8-19-22. Identification requirement for fire hydrants that are inoperable or unavailable for use in emergency situations.
- § 8-20-1. Acquisition and operation of combined waterworks and sewerage systems; extension beyond corporate limits; definitions.
- § 8-20-2. 8-20-2. Right of eminent domain; limitations.
- § 8-20-3. 8-20-3. Ordinance describing project; contents.
- § 8-20-4. 8-20-4. Publication of abstract of ordinance and notice; hearing.
- § 8-20-5. 8-20-5. Amount, negotiability and execution of bonds; refund of outstanding obligations or securities by sale or exchange of bonds.
- § 8-20-6. 8-20-6. Bonds payable solely from revenues; not to constitute municipal indebtedness.
- § 8-20-7. 8-20-7. Lien of bondholders.
- § 8-20-8. 8-20-8. Covenants with bondholders.
- § 8-20-9. 8-20-9. Operating contract.
- § 8-20-10. 8-20-10. Power and authority of municipality to enact ordinances and make rules and fix rates, fees, or charges; deposit required for new customers; change in rates, fees, or charges; failure to cure delinquency; delinquent rates, discontinuance of service; reconnecting deposit; return of deposit; fees or charges as liens; civil action for recovery thereof; deferral of filing fees and costs in magistrate court action; limitations with respect to foreclosure.
- § 8-20-11. 8-20-11. Discontinuance of water service for nonpayment of rates or charges.
- § 8-20-12. 8-20-12. Use of revenues; sinking fund.
- § 8-20-13. 8-20-13. System of accounts; audit.
- § 8-20-14. 8-20-14. Repair and maintenance of municipal sewerage system outside corporate limits.
- § 8-20-15. 8-20-15. Protection and enforcement of rights of bondholders, etc.; receivership.
- § 8-20-16. 8-20-16. Grants, loans and advances.
- § 8-20-17. 8-20-17. Additional and alternative method for constructing, etc., and financing combined system; cumulative authority.
- § 8-20-18. 8-20-18. Alternative procedure for acquisition, construction, etc., of combined system.
- § 8-20-19. 8-20-19. Article to be liberally construed.
- § 8-21-1. Cities may establish board.
- § 8-21-2. 8-21-2. Board a public corporate body; perpetual existence; seal; name; powers.
- § 8-21-3. 8-21-3. Members; quorum; qualifications; election or appointment; terms; disqualification.
- § 8-21-4. 8-21-4. Filling vacancies.