West Virginia § 8-16-25 - Article confers additional power and authority; extraterritorial jurisdiction.
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§ 8-16-25. Article confers additional power and authority; extraterritorial jurisdiction.
The power and authority herein granted shall be in addition to and not in derogation of any power and authority vested in any municipality under any Constitutional, statutory or charter provisions which may now or hereafter be in effect. For all purposes of this article, municipalities shall have jurisdiction for ten miles outside of the corporate limits thereof, except where such zone would overlap with the zone of another municipality, in which event the meridian line of the overlapping zone shall be the dividing line of their respective jurisdictions, except that one municipality shall have jurisdiction within such ten-mile zone and may overlap into the zone of another municipality or municipalities with the consent thereof.
Source: official West Virginia text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 8-16-25 ("Article confers additional power and authority; extraterritorial jurisdiction.") is part of the West Virginia Code, the codified statutory law of West Virginia. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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